ELLIE GOULDING INTERVIEW

Spindle Log

May 2010, Spindle Magazine Issue 1

With the recent explosion of the female, British, singer/songwriter on the scene, you’d be forgiven for thinking that you could find yourself wading through a sea of young girls practicing their vocal exercises and brandishing guitars, or at least a hefty set of lungs, immediately on leaving the house. Seriously, where are they all coming from?

The latest one to be making her bid for queen bee is undeniably 23-year-old, Hereford born, Ellie Goulding. Chances …read more

INTERVIEW, MUSIC

BETH JEANS HOUGHTON INTERVIEW

Spindle Log

May 2010, Spindle Magazine Issue 1

Beth Jeans Houghton is not what you’d expect from someone reputedly raised by a pack of albino wolves in Transylvania on stuffed clams and chewing tobacco: nowhere to be seen is the fetid body hair or overgrown claw nails. Instead, this elfin, Sedgwickian blonde is remarkably well-groomed; I would even go so far as to say positively un-feral looking. Nor does she greet us in the guttural half speech of the wolf-child. (At this point I’m beginning to think not …read more

INTERVIEW, MUSIC

ONE TO WATCH: AMITY INTERVIEW

Spindle Log

February 2011, Spindle Magazine Issue 3 

“I can imagine that this is on par with getting your dream fixed by Jimmy SavIlle. After 6 years of working hard and playing harder It fills me with comfort  to know that it’s now starting to pay off my debts.”

Meet Amy Forrester, AKA AMiTY: Brighton’s resident one-woman band.

While it wasn’t always music for AMiTY (“as a tot, my mind was too busy on football and kiss chase”) since learning her guitar chords, she’s become a fixture on …read more

INTERVIEW, MUSIC