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The Art of Longevity Season 6, Episode 6: Editors
Season 6 Episode 6
The egoless band can go a lot further than most bands. A strong element of that is embracing creative changes of direction - agreeing on it and being…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Art of Longevity Series 6, Episode 5: Gaz Coombes
Season 6 Episode 5
Let’s face it, there is a patchy record for solo artists that began in popular 90s bands. Some crossed the rubicon to a credible solo career and some…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Art of Longevity Season 6, Episode 4: Rumer
Rumer’s arrival struck a similar chord to that of Norah Jones some six years earlier i.e. refreshingly out of time. Those singles Slow, Aretha and th…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Art of Longevity Season 6, Episode 3: The Delines
Season 6 Episode 3
The Delines’ world is a sprawling, blue collar soap opera. Flawed characters, aimless drifters, chancers and grifters, barroom fights, beat-up cars, …
3 years, 4 months ago
The Art of Longevity Season 6, Episode 2: Blancmange
In this episode, Fenner Pearson chats to Neil Arthur about his writing process and how he works on the Blancmange albums, with Benge acting as his fo…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Art of Longevity Season 6, Episode 1: Aqualung
Season 6 Episode 1
After fading from view in the UK after "Strange And Beautiful" (a top 10 hit in 2002), Aqualung was hardly consigned to the legend of the one hit won…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Art of Longevity Season 5, Episode 7: Suede, with Brett Anderson
Season 5 Episode 7
Suede (or, The London Suede for our friends in the USA) has reached 30 years in the business (well, minus the seven years the band was officially spl…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Art of Longevity Season 5, Episode 6: Death Cab For Cutie
Season 5 Episode 6
How to characterise an American indie band over almost three decades and 10 albums, each with a subtly different flavour? One recent review I read de…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Art of Longevity Season 5, Episode 5: Embrace, with Danny McNamara
Season 5 Episode 5
Before I spoke with Danny McNamara, he’d emailed me to say how much he loved Brett Anderson’s quote - the one we’ve set out to make famous on The Art…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Art of Longevity Season 5, Episode 4: Alela Diane
Season 5 Episode 4
Having helped pave the way, Alela remains at the heart of a very strong current movement for female troubadours - a scene driven by the success of th…
3 years, 7 months ago