Clash Daddy

Clash Daddy shoots the breeze with Mr. John Grant “I’m sitting on my favourite bench, as I’m leaving soon and won’t be back ‘til beginning of June. So I thought I’d sit here and enjoy the sun,” says John Grant over the phone. “I’m not trying to cause any trouble but it’s shockingly beautiful today.” [...]

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Clash Daddy spoke with Angeliqe Kidjo Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo commonly known as Angélique Kidjo, is a Grammy Award–winning Beninoise singer songwriter and activist, noted for her diverse musical influences Time Magazine has called her ‘Africa’s premier diva’; the BBC has included Kidjo in its list of the African continent’s 50 [...]

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Clash Daddy chats with folk artist and collector Sam Lee “Everyone says it’s going great… it could go wrong at any moment,” say Sam Lee, who in a very short space of time has become something of household name with the folk and indie-folk fraternities. His debut album last year Ground Of Its Own was [...]

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Clash Daddy fired the questions With his original band, the much loved Orange Juice, Edwyn Collins enjoyed some success particularly with the single Rip It Up, and then later on as a solo artist with the perennial favourite A Girl Like You, before succumbing to a well documented cerebral hemorrhage in 2005 which almost took [...]

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Clash Daddy talks to Brighton-based guitarist Terry Bickers Formed in 1986, House Of Love became a leading indie rock band in the late ’80s; Shine On, Christine and Destroy The Heart remain seminal songs from that period, and their eponymous debut made number one in the Independent Charts. Regular cover stars and hotly tipped as [...]

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Call them Britrock or, rather controversially, clitrock, Skunk Anansie are still young enough and energetic enough to be one of the great live bands of recent times, as they amply demonstrated tonight despite a well below capacity turnout. As frontwoman Skin recently pointed out in an interview with Latest 7, the English can be fickle. [...]

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Radio Reverb 28 March 2013 by Jeff Hemmings on Mixcloud

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ClashDaddy spoke to Skin, frontwoman of the one and only clitrock band, Skunk Anansie! Formed in 1994, disbanded in 2001 and then reformed in 2009, this four piece achieved a lot of success with several hit singles (including Weak, All I Want and Charlie Big Potato and albums to their credit, but are better known [...]

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One of the most successful of UK bands, Simple Minds are back on the road for a Greatest Hits tour. Clash Daddy spoke with frontman Jim Kerr… Hugely successful, Simple Minds have topped America’s Billboard chart, released six number one albums in the UK and have hit the top spot in countless other countries around [...]

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Former Brighton resident Marika Hackman is just about to release a mini-album, That Iron Taste, a work that channels the spirit of the late ’60s, the psychedelic whimsy of Nico for instance, into an altogether darker sound. “My stuff is folk at the core, almost medieval folk in a sense, but a bit more dark [...]

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