Mar, 01

2012

WHITE DENIM INTERVIEW

March 2012, Spindle Magazine Issue 5

The degree to which I got excited about my interview with Texan rockers, White Denim, was verging on the unprofessional; gabbling all this excitedly over email to their tour manager probably didn’t’ help.

So you can imagine my expression when I heard that they’d missed their flight to England, would be late to The Great Escape and would thus need the allotted interview time to sleep off their jet lag. Balls. Would they still be performing? I asked, …read more

INTERVIEW, MUSIC

Mar, 01

2012

THE WAREHOUSE PROJECT

March 2012, Spindle Magazine Issue 5

“The first night we opened with Public Enemy and we had the governor from Strangeways prison on the phone complaining that he had 2,500 prisoners raving.”

The Warehouse Project opened the doors of its first venue, Boddington’s Brewery, in 2006 and ever since has carved out a new landscape in the Manchester clubbing scene, bringing the great and the good of international DJs and bands to lord it over its stages at one of the most influential club nights …read more

CULTURE, INTERVIEW, MUSIC

Mar, 01

2012

K. FLAY INTERVIEW

March 2012, Spindle Magazine Issue 5

Her mum may still call her Kristine, but the rest of the world knows Miss Flaherty as K. Flay. Not to mention as one pretty impressive chick who single handedly raps, sings, plays guitar and creates beats, as well as making mix tapes comprising remixed tracks overlaid with her own lyrics.

She also knows how to bake a cake without flour. That’s a pretty cool skill to have.

“To bake a cake without flour all you need is something that will allow it to …read more

INTERVIEW, MUSIC

Mar, 01

2012

LUCY ROSE INTERVIEW

March 2012, Spindle Magazine Issue 5

“If I’m even in today’s music scene I’d be chuffed.”

There’s no denying that we here at Spindle feature a lot of female artists. It’s safe to we like a woman who can get down with a guitar or on synth, or who generally has a good set of lungs on her.

We also like people who send us jam.

Rarely these two fancies of ours converge; not many of these talented women folk send us jam. And that’s ok. We don’t expect them to. But Lucy Rose did. …read more

INTERVIEW, MUSIC

Dec, 24

2011

SKINS

December 2011, Spindle Magazine

Opening up my paper this morning, I’m immediately struck by a story about the sharp increase in sexual promiscuity in teenage girls between the ages of 14 and 24, replete with handy colour coded charts to track the degeneracy. Sadly, I shake my head and inwardly tut; my God, Skins has a lot to answer for.

There’s nothing guaranteed to make you feel quite so old as interviewing the current cast of Skins, many too young to watch when the original cast …read more

CULTURE, INTERVIEW

Oct, 24

2011

New Meat In Hollyoaks

October 2011, Spindle Magazine

Hands up if you’ve never spent a hungover (or otherwise) Sunday morning vegged out, cuppa in hand, in front of the Hollyoaks omnibus.

Nope, put your hand down; you’re lying: everybody’s done that. I’m not even going to ask how any of you stalwartly position yourselves in front of the TV at 6.30 every weekday evening; I’ll let you keep that one dignity.

For 16 years, Hollyoaks has been an institution dedicated to making us feel better about or …read more

CULTURE, INTERVIEW

Jun, 01

2011

KATE NASH INTERVIEW

June 2011, Spindle Magazine Issue 4

Give it up for the Grrl: Kate Nash, AKA Not Lily Allen, is back.

Although apparently she wasn’t actually gone that long (just a couple of years, it’s just been bloody ages since her first album ‘Made of Bricks’ was released) but you can understand why when I told people I was interviewing Kate Nash their main response was, ‘Blimey, she still around?’.

And yes, I did mean grrl and not sweet voiced, cockney girl singing about being sour like …read more

INTERVIEW, MUSIC

Jun, 01

2011

EVERYTHING EVERYTHING INTERVIEW

June 2011, Spindle Magazine Issue 4

“We’re trying to connect with people as immediately as possible with our music,” muses Alex Everything. “It’s the same goals as the Spice Girls had.” Jeremy Everything adds.

It’s not every day that a band is heralded as being ‘the antidote to the stale indie scene’. Except that it kind of is. As Alex points out, “So are the Vaccines.”

“No, they’re the saviours of guitar,” Jonathon Everything contradicts him. So really they’re …read more

INTERVIEW, MUSIC

Jun, 01

2011

THE WANTED INTERVIEW

June 2011, Spindle Magazine Issue 4

It’s the perfection issue so who is better for it than the next big boy band of the moment, The Wanted? They already have a calendar, a book deal (‘the most wanted book of the year’), a prestigious slot on the X Factor alongside the Bieb and are generally making JLS quiver in their cardigans.

And really, how long has it been since we all had a chance to have a good old fashioned bitch about a boy band? You know how it goes; manufactured groups thought …read more

INTERVIEW, MUSIC

Jun, 01

2011

MEL MERIO INTERVIEW

June 2011, Spindle Magazine Issue 4

‘Edgy pop goddess? Art piece of the techno generation? Call me whatever you want.’

I’ve got to say that, getting ready for my interview with Mel Merio, I was expecting some dominating, electro pop institution/possibly robot whose mobile phone functions as an extra appendage/weapon to be thrown at under functioning minions. I mean, just look at the list of credentials displayed on her website: ‘Music star, MTV host, television talking head, fashion …read more

INTERVIEW, MUSIC

ABOUT

Amy Lavelle is a freelance journalist who writes for the likes of Grazia, Glamour, Red, The Pool, Metro, Telegraph and the Independent, among others.

Amy is represented by Amanda Preston and Hannah Schofield at LBA. Her debut novel, Definitely Fine, published by Orion Fiction, is out now. Her second novel, Home Sweet Home, came out in April 2023.

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