Tag: Lizottes
[MUSIC: Interview] Carus Thompson
Carus Thompson is a hard man to interview. He’s a friendly bloke, and highly lucid to boot, but our attempts at communication are beset more than once by his current tour – more specifically, the lack of mobile phone reception in the middle of the desert at Mining Camp 29A. “I’m up in the Pilbara in far north Western Australia, touring the mining camps, and it’s absolutely stunning out here,” he says. “It’s a very different way of touring compared to what I’ve been doing recently, but in some ways it’s very much the same. Music has always been a communal thing; I reckon it’s probably one of our oldest and most important rituals. Its importance for community is very clear out here.”
Posted: June 20th, 2012 under Brag 467, Music, Music - Interview.
Tags: Acoustic At The Norfolk Volume II, Benjamin Cooper, Brass Monkey, Carus Thompson, Lizottes
[MUSIC: Interview] Aya Larkin
Aya Larkin Live The Dream By Benjamin Cooper Aya Larkin, former frontman of ‘90s alt-rock outfit Skunkhour, reckons you make your own luck as a musician. “Mate,” he confides, “unless you’re talking about the glory days of the ‘80s, all that talk about the death of live music is just bullshit. It’s been like this [...]
Posted: April 22nd, 2012 under Brag 458 (April 16), Music, Music - Interview.
Tags: Aya Larkin, Benjamin Cooper, Lizottes, Old Manly Boatshed, Skunkhour, The Brag, The Vanguard, Waking Dream