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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.
How to sell your company: showing not telling
Communicating what your company does, may have its challenges, but the real challenge is making that communication as persuasive as it is...
James Gill
Mar 8, 20241 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
Jazzy Jeff - Interview - 2002
Although everyone and their wedding DJ boyfriend will know of Jazzy Jeff’s exploits with Will Smith as the Fresh Prince Of Bel Air, few...
James Gill
Mar 8, 20243 min read
Goldie Lookin Chain - Interview - 2002
You are One-Step Down, the media assassin, is that correct? 1STEP: Yes, that is correct - with me are Mr. Love Eggs and Mystikal. The...
James Gill
Mar 8, 20248 min read
Jake - Scissor Sisters - Interview - 2003
No one isn’t talking about the Scissor Sisters. Despite the fact that the ‘important’ people are telling us that the market is erring...
James Gill
Mar 8, 20243 min read
Amy Winehouse - Interview - 2003
As one journalist pointed out, there aren’t many artists who can boast being played on both Radio 2 and 1Xtra. But Amy Winehouse’s appeal...
James Gill
Mar 8, 20242 min read
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