Interviews with leading figures from the arts
10 Questions for Singer/Pianist Joe Stilgoe
Wednesday, 11 November 2020
Singer/pianist/songwriter/entertainer Joe Stilgoe responded remarkably rapidly to the new circumstances of March 2020.
theartsdesk Q&A: Mick Talbot of The Style Council
Saturday, 07 November 2020
Following the break-up of The Jam in 1982, Mick Talbot (b 1958) was chosen by Paul Weller as his sparring partner in a new band, The Style Council. Talbot, a keyboard player from south London, had flourished amid the late-Seventies Mod revival, initially in the Merton Parkas, with his brother Danny, but also in The Chords, and even appearing on a couple of The Jam’s records.
Filmmaker Bassam Tariq: 'Great cinema doesn...
Tuesday, 27 October 2020
After Bassam Tariq's feature debut These Birds Walk was released at SXSW 2013, things seemed to slow down. The documentary about a runaway boy in...
10 Questions for Poet and Critic Rebecca Tamás
Tuesday, 20 October 2020
Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman is a powerful invitation to rethink, to doubt and to engage. Beginning among the Diggers’ tilled earth in...
theartsdesk Q&A: Sally Anne Gross and Dr...
Saturday, 10 October 2020
Today is World Mental Health Day and of course that means an awful lot of hugs and homilies, thoughts and prayers, deep-breathing exercises and it’s-...
theartsdesk Q&A: musician Kevin Rowland - 'it was painful to be misunderstood and misinterpreted'
To coincide with its reissue, the Dexys Midnight Runners lynchpin considers his solo album ‘My Beauty’ |
'I loved being a dresser': Sir Ronald Harwood, Oscar-winning writer, dies at 85
A memorial interview with the playwright and scriptwriter who enjoyed a remarkable Indian summer |
theartsdesk Q&A: author Katharina Volckmer
Interview with the first-time novelist on her deeply funny, subversive new novel |
Directors Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui: 'The disability community is the world community'
Interview with the men behind Netflix's new Paralympic documentary 'Rising Phoenix' |
theartsdesk Q&A: Record label New Heavy Sounds
Co-founder Ged Murphy sheds light on the world of Britain's most original heavy rock independent |
theartsdesk Q&A: author Jorge Consiglio
On brutality, estrangement and what solitude can bring to a work of fiction |
theartsdesk Q&A: horn player Sarah Willis
Midnight recording sessions and late-running buses; playing Mozart in Havana |
theartsdesk Q&A: filmmaker Mike Hodges
The British writer-director reflects on the making and meaning of his thriller 'Black Rainbow' as it bows on Blu-ray |
theartsdesk Q&A: actor Gemma Whelan
From 'Game of Thrones' to 'Emma' and the new series of 'Killing Eve', upward mobility is the name of her game |
Remembering John Prine, one of the great American singer-songwriters
A tribute to the blue-collar folk poet, who has died at the age of 73 |
Director Marjane Satrapi: ‘The real question is do you like everyone? No? So, why should everyone like you?’
The forthright 'Radioactive' filmmaker on intelligence, ignorance and Marie Curie |
10 Questions for Irina Nalis
Multidisciplinary thinking at a multidisciplinary festival in a time of crisis |
Roy Hudd: 'I was just trying to make 'em laugh'
The most traditional of entertainers, who has died at 83, harked back to a vanished age |
theartsdesk Q&A: musician Rick McMurray
Ash drummer on 25 years as an indie rock teen titan |
Actress Noémie Merlant: 'This is something that hasn't been told yet'
The star of 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' talks about a film that asserts the female gaze, behind and in front of the camera |
theartsdesk Q&A: soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn
Returning to ENO to sing Verdi's Luisa Miller, a great singer-actor reflects |
'She was revolutionary': Tanztheater Wuppertal's new director on the legacy of Pina Bausch
Bettina Wagner-Bergelt talks violence and taped music in a monumental early masterpiece |
Filmmaker Agnieszka Holland: 'Without journalism, democracy will not survive'
'Mr Jones' director discusses why she's fascinated by Europe's darkest hours |
theartsdesk Q&A: Conductor Olari Elts in Tallinn
From contemporary ensemble to top orchestra, the latest major Estonian has arrived |
'In every concert, I want to try to tell a story': Conductor Omer Meir Wellber at the BBC Philharmonic
The new man in Manchester discusses past, present and future |
theartsdesk Q&A: Director Sir Jonathan Miller
The legendary director lets rip |
10 Questions for Techno Musician Carl Craig
Catching up with the prince of Detroit techno as he revives an old alter ego |
'Shakespeare is mistakenly considered something for the elite': director Claire McCarthy on 'Ophelia'
Upcoming adaptation shines a new light on Shakespeare's famous tragic maiden |
'By the end I’d lost me': Joe Simpson, mountaineer and writer - interview
The story of Touching the Void has been told and retold. Its author explores its appeal |
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