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Archive of Feature Articles
More subtlety and better songs
Idlewild lead singer Roddy Woomble and new boy bassist Gavin Fox discuss the last year's developments, including Gav's controversial defection from Turn.
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Last throw of the dice
Darragh O'Connor of Wilt speaks as the band faces a crisis that could mean the end.
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Totally addicted to live
Damien Rice, not so much a rising Irish star as one that's already risen, discusses gigging and the interest he's getting in the US.
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Happy that people are having a listen
Fionn Regan, one of the new breed of Irish singer-songwriters destined for bigger things, discusses the interest he's generating.
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I want a pink Cadillac
Jon Spencer of the Blues Explosion! discusses their new album and how he'd like to be rich and famous.
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Maybe hypnosis would work
Mercury Prize nominee Kathryn Williams discusses how she's happy she didn't win, her new house, stage-fright and her inability to listen to her own music.
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Getting over Mary
Brendan Murphy of The 4 of Us discusses shitty ice cubes, herbal tea and, oh yeah, the band's new album.
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Distorted: Working with the perfect Widows
Rute Fevereiro, of Portuguese all-female metal band Black Widows discusses the various challenges they have overcome.
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Sordid: The natural evolution of EBM
Tom Shear of Assemblage 23 discusses the intensely personal nature of his music, the futurepop scene in general and the EBM revival.
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Setting Dublin alight
Rob Davis, the singer and guitarist with returned Irish exiles, Nero, discusses their surprise gig in Whelan's, the plans for their debut album and their very impressive list of friends.
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It'll take more than a plane crash
Billy McGuinness, keyboard player with Aslan, one of Ireland's most enduring live acts, discusses the obstacles they've overcome and their plans for the future.
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And on the eight day...
God Made me Hardcore - the burgeoning electroclash scene has spawned a new label and a host of acts, new and old, and three of those involved explain it all.
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Gigging until he falls over
Jamie Lawson is currently residing in the warm-up act category, but he plans to put his all into moving forward.
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Sordid: Getting off our sorry asses
Paul Barker of seminal electronic act Ministry discusses their soon to be released new album, the mammoth tour ahead and what's going on around them.
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Sordid: Peeling off the layers
The artist called Jim Thirlwell by his parents, but known by many other names, discusses his latest projects, file-swapping and the state of the music business.
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Distorted: Ban Popstars, slap the viewers - leave music to musicians
Motormouth Pitchshifter vocalist, JS Clayden, lives up to his reputation and gives an earful about the media, their music and band-members' side projects.
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Letting their inspiration direct them
Violinist Sara from Grammy-nominated band, Nickel Creek, discusses the progression in their bluegrass-based sound and the time they spend touring.
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Distorted: No cookie-cutter pop punk shit here
The guitarist with American pop-punk band Guttermouth, Derek Davis, discusses their longevity, the controversy over the new album and the new breed of pop-punk bands.
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Another 15 minutes
Lee Fraser, sometimes known as Dead Lee or Lee the Bastard, discusses the return of Sheep on Drugs, his ongoing Bagman project and their tempestuous relationship with record labels.
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Straight to the Point
The music scene in Ireland has been dominated by crappy manufactured pop music for the last few years, but Irish r n' b talent Luke Thomas is aiming to add some quality to the mix as he sets his sights on playing Landsdowne Road.
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Sordid: Dark Jubilee feature
Interviews with VNV Nation, Das Ich, Icon of Coil, Crüxshadows, Theatre of Tragedy and Void Construct and a review of the festival.
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A multi-part, rip-rock sound
Scott Sellwood, of American emo/alternative rockers Skiptrace, discusses their origins, the overwhelming reaction to the debut EP and the influences on their forthcoming album.
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Percolating right below the mainstream
Brian Baker, Bad Religion's guitarist since 1994, discusses the welcome return of the man he replaced, the tracks he doesn't like on the new album and how the elders of Californian punk rock are content to let the newer bands hog the limelight.
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New levels of insanity
Ken McGrath talks to the worn out members of The Icarus Line who are starting to realise that their career path is not one to be envied.
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Mic Christopher (1969-2001)
Editor Donnacha DeLong pays tribute to a tragic loss to the Irish music scene.
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Along the enchanted way
Dominic Cromie of rising Celtic Rock band, Raglan Road, discusses the origins of the band that might have been called Balloons.
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A bit of give and a bit of take
New Model Army celebrated twenty years making music at The Palladium in Cologne in December last year. Casey Campbell had the fortune of catching Justin Sullivan not long after he'd stepped offstage on the last night in Cologne.
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A big family get-together
Roland Orzabal, formerly of Tears for Fears, discusses his new album, the impact of deaths around him on the new material and working with his former band-mate Curt Smith again.
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Battling the bland
La Rocca, arguably the second hardest working band in Dublin talk about trying to break onto an FM band full to capacity with "shite".
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Helping the system to implode
Hanin Elias and Alec Empire of German techno-anarchist noise terrorists, Atari Teenage Riot, discuss their philosophy and their music.
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Coming in cold
Not very many people in the Northern Hemisphere have heard of Powderfinger, but people in Australia seemingly want to like them.
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One Side of a C90
Tim Holmes, one half of Death in Vegas, the band that Rolling Stone called the new Goth for the new millennium, discusses the web of confusion that surrounds the band.
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Question and answer session with Cyclefly
Cork band, Cyclefly, described by NME as a cross between Jane's Addiction and the Smashing Pumpkins (and I would add Placebo into the melting pot) gigged around Dublin following a successful tour of the states and the UK.
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Making the world unsafe for Louis Walsh
One of Ireland's great maverick musicians, Cathal Coughlan, makes a welcome return to a music scene where he still refuses to fit in.
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Building up your own history
Dublin's The Frames are back with a new album and continuing their constant gigging, with a view that success would probably break them up.
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Alternative music's elder statesmen
The morning of their second sell-out gig in Dublin in only a few months, The Violent Femmes' Brian Ritchie took a call at the truly immoral time of 11am.
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Setting Dublin alight
Donnacha DeLong spoke to James Dean Bradfield of the Manic Street Preachers about their increasing popularity, critical disdain and the problems they face in the future.
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A chance to hear different sounds
Caroline Hennessy spoke to Joe Pernice of the current critics' darlings, the Pernice Brothers, before he played one of Ireland's more infamous social occasions.
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Rockin' the Volcano - Pululahua '99
A unique event in rock n' roll history: A 4-day international music festival in a sacred, mystical and inaccessible geo-botanical reserve.
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It's all in a haircut
Patrick Horan talks to a newly shorn Martin Rossiter of Gene, a man who says he'd do anything for a beer.
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Not Dead Yet!
Sorted magAZine managed to grab a few rushed moments with two legendary figures in rock, The Creatures, who are still very much alive.
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Alan McGee's creation, or something more?
Sorted magAZine discusses success, the music biz, drugs and plain old rock n' roll with the band known as Three Colours Red.
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The Band who Invented Crusty?
Sorted magAZine continues to march to its own beat and interviews the band that nobody else will - New Model Army.
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Uaneen Fitzsimons
Irish Music Biz Profile.
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Radio Unfriendly Unit: 'Shifter
Despite a multinational merger (Universal & Polygram) that threatened the phone link, and a car crash just outside his house, J.S. Clayden managed to talk to Sorted magAZine about life as a Pitchshifter.
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Perfect pop and a messy head
A brief introduction to a New York band, The Messyheads, that features at least one familiar face for those of us stuck in Ireland.
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"The Names! The Glamour! Pass the Talcum Powder!"
Punk survivor and Gothic icon Steven Severin on life after the Banshees and the Gothic revival.
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No More Waiting
Al Peach gives us a Stateside view of an up-and-coming Irish band, The Devlins.
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Dark Days
American singer-songwriter Peter Mulvey is no stranger to Ireland.
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A Self-confessed Sustainable Resource
It's almost a cliché. Man and woman from different countries emigrate
to the States, meet waiting tables, find they things in common and ...
form a band, Too Cynical to Cry.
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The Devout Speak Out
Having talked, and listened to, the Very Reverend Doctor D Wayne Love, I wondered, do the band really consider themselves "disciples" of the Rev, or is it all an act. Greg Hughes spoke to Alabama 3 member Orlando, to try and find out.
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Doing it with a Sixty-Piece Orchestra
If there is any justice in the world, Jack Lukeman is going to be huge. Sorted magAZine charts the growth of his career.
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We're gonna be like Madonna
Steve from Smash Mouth talks about the constant touring, the dangers of a smash hit and what they want to become (the queen of pop?).
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Opiate Slush
Lisa Germano and Giant Sand’s Joey Burns on music to cool the senses of the masses, OP8.
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Treacherous Trends
Geoffrey Barrow and Adrian Utley of Portishead on returning to a music scene where they’re no longer the lights of the music press’ eyes.
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The Mary Janes - on Warchild and copyright laws
They've lost their bass player, are being sued by an American company for copyright on their name, but the Mary Janes are still contented because they're on their way to Bosnia again.
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Big in the US and back in Belfast
Jake Burns tries to explain SLF’s current situation to journos who are more interested in getting his autograph.
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Song of a Preacher Man
When Alabama 3's Very Reverend Dr D Wayne Love starts preachin', people start listenin' - Greg Hughes was his enraptured audience.
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Fighters not Writers
Everyone's favourite anarchist, Chumbawamba's Alice Nutter, discusses anarchy in the music biz and in the UK.
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Mind the Generation Gap
"Irish music is like a river into which different pebbles are thrown" is how Sean O'Riada, one of Ireland's greatest musicians, described this Irish tradition. One very important pebble for the band called Kíla was an unexpected birthday present.
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Four assholes from Brooklyn
In a music world dominated by MTV, visual impact is everything. With their front-man, Type O Negative have what's needed.
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New Techno, Old Music
Donnacha DeLong questions the originality of the recent developments in dance music.
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One Step Forward To Go One Step Back
Donnacha DeLong spoke to James McNally and Joe Bruce of musical fusion collective the Afro-Celt Sound System just before they went Weekending in Waterford.
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Manic Mundy
It was a Midlands meeting of minds when two Offaly men, our own Niall Byrne and Mundy, met in Dublin.
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Skin-less
Donnacha DeLong spoke to Ace and Cass from Skunk Anansie while lead singer Skin was excluded from the room.
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Who Lives in a Space like this?
Niall Byrne met a bunch of movie-goers whos day job is being pop-stars in Space.
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Holy Wars - Rock n' Religion
Donnacha DeLong looks back on the history of the clashes between rock music and religion.
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Tune into the following broadcast
Olivia Fox spoke to Bren and Brendan of Revelino on the eve of the release of "Broadcaster".
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Lou Barlow and smalltown America
Kenneth Foxe talked to Sebadoh frontman Lou Barlow about "Harmacy" - the new album, growing up in small-town America, and fame or more appropriately Sebadoh's lack of it.
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Greek for wanker
Donnacha DeLong and Olivia Fox spoke to Roisín Murphy and Mark Brydon of the band who say they do things by accident, Moloko, when they played the Mean Fiddler in March.
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Gypsies of the nineties?
Way back in November '95, Donnacha DeLong and Kenneth Foxe interviewed the Young Gods when they played the Mean Fiddler. Sorted magazine exclusively unveils the sage wisdom of vocalist Franz Treichler as they discussed music, drugs, politics, and life.
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Exit Sandman
Donnacha DeLong spoke to Neil Gaiman, the writer of "Sandman", about life after the comic that by its final issue was outselling "Batman" and "Superman".
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Jacque Brel is alive and well and living in Ireland
Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon, Gavin Friday and Jack L give their opinions of one of their biggest influences.
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XFM 107.1 - An Expensive Hobby
XFM DJ Hugh O'Brien tells Kenneth Foxe his story, painting a romantic picture of the world of pirate radio.
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Le a'SORTED fLIX mIX
French film festival special.
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