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This is a home for some of the interviews and features I've written since starting my writing career in 2001. Here you'll find lots of interviews with musicians, but also highlights from the last 10 years in content marketing: valuable, original content that informs, entertains and persuades.
Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster - Interview - 2007
“My fiancé dumped me on Valentine’s Day while on tour.” Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster’s 27 year-old-singer is starting to explain how...
James Gill
Mar 11, 20248 min read
Angela Gossow - Arch Enemy - Interview - 2006
Angela Gossow vs Metal Hammer In issue 147 (Xmas 2005), Metal Hammer ran an article on Arch Enemy (read it here), which quoted Arch...
James Gill
Mar 11, 20248 min read
36 Crazyfists - Interview - 2008
Access All Areas “Both my mom’s parents were alcoholics and her dad used to beat them,” says Steve Holt, 36 Crazyfists philosophical...
James Gill
Mar 11, 20248 min read
Killswitch Engage - Interview - 2006
Killing Memphis Of all the things you might expect to see on a tour bus, this is not one of them: Howard Jones is holding a bottle of...
James Gill
Mar 11, 20248 min read
Atreyu - Interview - 2007
The hottest temperature ever recorded in the UK was 38 degrees. The average for July is 20 degrees. Today, here in the Hi Fi Buys...
James Gill
Mar 11, 20248 min read
David Coverdale - Whitesnake - Interview - 2005
My Life Story [Before we’ve even started David is in with a bullet] “Well I was born at an early age, and I’ve been trying to get back in...
James Gill
Mar 11, 20246 min read
Al Jourgensen - Ministry - Interview - 2005
My Life Story - Al Jourgensen Where and when were you born? I was born on October 9th 1958 in Havana Cuba. I moved to the States when I...
James Gill
Mar 11, 20248 min read
Dallas Green - Alexisonfire/City & Colour - Interview - 2008
Within Canada’s favourite srceamo band Alexisonfire, amnesiac worry-machine Dallas Green and his cohorts have won the unrequited love of...
James Gill
Mar 10, 202411 min read
Trent Reznor - Nine Inch Nails - Interview - 2011
It’s impossible to tell if the band have actually arrived on stage. The Glasgow Academy is dense with smoke, and you can just make out a...
James Gill
Mar 10, 20249 min read
Sebastian Bach - Skid Row - 2006
WHERE AND WHEN WERE YOU BORN? “I was born Sebastian Bierk in 1968 in Freeport, Bahamas where my Dad was teaching art. He was in a car...
James Gill
Mar 10, 20247 min read
Bullet For My Valentine - 2007
So where were we? Oh yes: a new Bullet For My Valentine album. At last. It feels like a decade since the Welsh upstarts unleashed ‘The...
James Gill
Mar 10, 20249 min read
Ronnie James Dio - Interview - 2005
Where and when were you born? “I was born in Portsmouth New Hampshire… in the early days of the renaissance [laughs]. I was born in 1944,...
James Gill
Mar 10, 20246 min read
Architects - Interview - 2009
Building The Perfect Beast ARCHITECTS may be young, but they have the common sense, suss and realism of a band with twice their years and...
James Gill
Mar 10, 20244 min read
Ville Valo - HIM - Interview - 2006
HIM are known to millions of dark souls around the globe as the creators of their signature love metal sound - the ultimate gothic rock...
James Gill
Mar 10, 202412 min read
Rob Playford - Moving Shadow Records - Interview - 2001
From its genesis in the tail end mists of the 80’s, Rob Playford has been a prominent figure in the drum & bass/jungle/hardcore scene....
James Gill
Mar 8, 20243 min read
Imogen Heap - Frou Frou - Interview - 2002
Frou Frou is the name of the new Imogen Heap/Guy Sigsworth project. An aural exploration of beats, songs and noises straight from the...
James Gill
Mar 8, 20244 min read
Layo & Buskwacka - Interview - 2002
Following the 12”, ‘Love Story’, 1 July saw Layo & Bushwacka! release their second album, ‘Night Works’ on XL Recordings. The album is...
James Gill
Mar 8, 20243 min read
Lamb - Interview - 2001
At Last. It feels like a lifetime has passed since the last offering from Lamb. There aren’t enough Christmases in a year. Lou Rhodes and...
James Gill
Mar 8, 20244 min read
Mr Scruff - Interview - 2002
Mr Scruff has a vernacular all his own. just as Mohammad Ali’s speech was littered with fight-talk, Andy Carthy’s verbiage is strewn with...
James Gill
Mar 8, 20243 min read
Justin Hawkins - The Darkness - Interview - 2002
As with the sixties revival of the early nineties, the seventies revival of the late nineties and the current obsession with the...
James Gill
Mar 8, 20248 min read
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