Category: Features
The last few months have made me realise how important music is to people – Live4ever’s interview with DMA’s
When Oasis split in 2009 it was hard to escape the feeling that it would be temporary; the Gallaghers were famous after all for their fraternal strops and they’d …
Hinds discuss the delay and evolution of new album The Prettiest Curse
When Live4ever spoke to Hinds’ Ana Garcia Perrote at the end of April, the immediate effects of the coronavirus pandemic had been felt close to home: “My parents are …
In 2020 there’s always news, but at least there’s always Idles – a look ahead to the band’s third album
Late in the Friday evening of April 18th, 1930, those in the UK with the sufficient inclination and technological means to sit around a wireless set and learn of …
Live4ever’s Best Of 2020: The Albums…So Far
Nearly halfway there people. Nearly halfway through the annus horribilis to end all anni horribiles (googled the plural). At least for music fans, during the utter s**tstorm that is …
Live4ever Interview: After a turbulent decade, Badly Drawn Boy returns with new album Banana Skin Shoes
Damon Gough is in demand this sunny Wednesday afternoon. England may still be in a sort of lockdown (based on the official advice, who knows), but our trans-Pennine phone …
Live4ever Interview: Lockdown with Tim Burgess – Twitter Listening Parties and new album I Love The New Sky
Some people are gluttons for punishment. Whilst a great number of us have been making the most of this free time, the world still turns in our absence, and …
Live4ever’s Interview With Crispin Hunt, Part 2: Streaming, royalties and the #BrokenRecord campaign
There are many bitter ironies about this new world we inhabit after COVID-19 entered our lives. The saddest of all is, of course, that those best placed to treat …
Live4ever’s Interview With Crispin Hunt, Part 1: Longpigs, Britpop and the reissue of The Sun Is Often Out
In part one of our interview with Crispin Hunt – one-time frontman of the Longpigs and current Chair of the Ivors Academy – we look back on the Britpop …
Live4ever Presents: The Lounge Society
Music Will Save, Like It Always Does
A lot of words are flying around at the moment, the main one being ‘unprecedented’. Whilst being apposite, it also fails to do justice to the situation the world …
Live4ever Interview: Andy Crofts talks The Moons, Paul Weller and solo albums
Andy Crofts needs some tips on self-promotion: “It’s by no means anything to do with what my actual album will be. I kind of wish I hadn’t done it! …