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The Art of Longevity Season 2, Episode 6: Portico Quartet
Season 2 Episode 6
Discovering a band all to yourself is the best type of music discovery there is. One day in the mid 2000s as my wife and I wandered along London’s So…
4 years, 7 months ago
The Art of Longevity Season 2, Episode 5: Mew
Season 2 Episode 5
If one of the secrets to longevity in the music industry is simply taking your time, then Danish alternative rock band Mew are grand masters. Formed …
4 years, 8 months ago
The Art of Longevity Season 2, Episode 4: Los Lobos
When I sat down with Steve Berlin, the Los Lobos sax player and de facto spokesperson, I was a little more than intrigued. To most people around the …
4 years, 8 months ago
The Art of Longevity Season 2, Episode 3: Fink
Season 2 Episode 3
On The Art of Longevity, Fin Greenhall explained the ideas behind Fink's new project IIUII: an acoustic retrospective of some of the band's (and fans…
4 years, 9 months ago
The Art of Longevity Season 2, Episode 2: Barenaked Ladies
Season 2 Episode 2
Is it possible to make your best record 33 years into a career? That’s what may just have happened with Canadian legends Barenaked Ladies and their 2…
4 years, 10 months ago
The Art of Longevity Season 2, Episode 1: KT Tunstall
Season 2 Episode 1
On the Art of Longevity Series II, Episode One, KT Tunstall tells me that albums can feel like a ‘flash in the pan’ despite all the work that goes in…
4 years, 10 months ago
The Art of Longevity Episode 7: The Coral, with James Skelly
Season 1 Episode 7
The Coral is a band revered on the music scene - a real artist’s band. They are very accomplished musicians who first got together at school in the s…
4 years, 11 months ago
The Art of Longevity Episode 6: Maximo Park, with Paul Smith
Season 1 Episode 6
Music critics have tried to classify the music made by North East England’s Maximo Park for the past two decades, eventually converging on the term ‘…
4 years, 11 months ago
The Art of Longevity Episode 5: James, with Tim Booth
Season 1 Episode 5
When you’ve been getting away with it as a seven piece band for nearly four decades, with 22 albums behind you - something’s got to give when it come…
5 years ago
The Art of Longevity Episode 4: Gary Numan
Season 1 Episode 4
Success came relatively quickly to Gary Numan, when his single ‘Are ‘Friends’ Electric?’ rose to the top of the UK charts in May 1979. Without a chor…
5 years, 1 month ago