We're back from our extended holidays, and we hope you have all had delightfully laid-back and toasty Christmas breaks. To usher in the new year, here's an interview we did with the wonderful and very tall First Aid Kit (aka Johanna and Klara) before Christmas. They talked about Gary Numan and boots, and gave us perhaps one of our most depressing answers ever, while giggling through the whole slightly silly thing.
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The first part of our interview, which was the bit where we asked her lots of daft questions. In which we learn that i) Elly Jackson has impeccable taste in directional trainaz ii) she would like 'a harem' of pashes and iii) she amuses her friends by describing inanimate objects as 'sexual'
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Alela Diane’s first solo record attracted a bucketload of plaudits, and quite right too, because it is very beautiful. She also happens to be a thoroughly nice lady who fancies running her own B&B. Alela’s breakfast recommendations and favourite cover songs after the jump…
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Rebekah Raa from Stricken City was on public transport when we did our interview, readers. But lucky for you, we did not spent the entire convo going "Where are you?" so that she could annoy her fellow transportees and just keep shouting 'I'm on THE BUS.' After the jump, the marvellously jerky one of twosome talks about unimaginative Ting Tings comparisons, a wrinkled Barack Obama and working at McDonalds. She even says the words 'I'm not Beethoven' at one point.
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Becca had the distinct pleasure of taking luncheon with Martha not so long ago, and spent the entire time nattering about food. In that spirit, we spoke to her last week about her favourite places to eat, journalists with sense of humour failure and what to cook someone if you want some sexytime…
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Morgan Quaintance (lovely name, lovely fellow) talks to us about Val Kilmer's elbow growth, directors with God complexes and naughty sherbet.
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When we to spoke Peter out of Peter Bjorn and John last week, he was on a train. Just after he had just started telling us about their new instrumental album, he went into a tunnel, never to be seen again.
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A bit of background: we were mistakenly told to phone up Aaron from iPod advert beneficiaries Chairlift at 9am, UK time. He was just outside of New York. It was 4am his time. Luckily he was already awake because he had just had a really hot shower and the steam had set his fire alarm off. He thought we were his neighbours complaining, but we weren't - we were a website with stupidly taxing questions. Poor Aaron.
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The Walkmen's third album, You & Me, is out this week, and it is not putting too fine a point on it to say that it is absolutely bloody marvellous. We talked to front fellow Hamilton Leithauser about tennis shoes, fantasy collaborators and - justcallusRobertPeston - the credit crunch.
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We like Sky Larkin a lot round these parts, so we were thrilled to have singer Katie Harkin tackle our big daft Questionnaire. We also found out that on the band's debut album, due in January, Katie played the actual black guitar that's on the cover of Sleater-Kinney's Dig Me Out. TOP INDIE FACT. Those questions, please...
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