In Depth Interviews Archives

James (Saul Davies): Life In Colour – “The Expression of Humanity is Music”

When The VLM spoke with Saul Davies, multi-instrumentalist member of Manchester legends, James, it was just two weeks before the release of All The Colours Of You, the band’s sixteenth studio album, which as we...

Cabbage: Psychedelic Mushrooms, Manchester Poets and a Moscow Deportation

Cabbage release their second studio album Amanita Pantherina tomorrow (25 September). The album has been described by the Tameside band "as a reaction to the last couple of years, losing a member and finding th...

Sunship Balloon: New Music, Next Level Visuals, and Natural Wines

Formed in 2019 by Daniel Haggis and Tord Øverland Knudsen of The Wombats, Sunship Balloon, is the second export to come from the Liverpool band along with frontman, Matthew “Murph” Murphy's, solo project, Love ...

Alex The Astronaut: An Australian Songwriter Versus the Universe

From the time of our conversation, it is T minus nine days from the launch of Alex the Astronaut’s debut album, The Theory of Absolutely Nothing (released 21 August). The Australian musician (real name, Alex Ly...

Talking Heads with: Sophie and the Giants

Talking Heads is a new series in collaboration with DreaminIsFree where we talk to local bands from the north about mental health and coping with life in lockdown. The music industry has been propelled into ...

Self Esteem: A Sheffield Queen Living a Lockdown Dream

It is barbecue weather in Sheffield where Rebecca Lucy Taylor (better known as Self Esteem) is residing with her parents during lockdown. She has been admiring her auntie’s dog and doing a spot of painting in t...

Off Bloom: Becoming “Officially Afraid of the Internet”

Off Bloom are afraid of the internet. At least that's what the Anglo-Danish trio's hoodies state in various promo shots. And who can blame them? The internet is scary as shit. We rely on it completely though. M...

Dream Wife: Reinventing Punk on their Own ‘Badass Bitch’ Terms.

Prior to their gig supporting The Vaccines at Sheffield O2 Academy and fresh from their Glasgow headline show the night previous, we caught up with the The British-Icelandic trio Dream Wife, who are reinventing...

Abbie McCarthy: two years of Good Karma Club, going on tour and Kent’s hotbed of new music

You know that feeling when you host a party; loads of mate have clicked 'going' on the Facebook event, some have even texted you personally to say they're coming but until they walk through the door, you're uns...

Jagwar Ma: Sheffield, Sydney and Adele in a Library

Returning last year with their second album Every Now and Then Jagwar Ma, cemented their sound in psychoactive synths and Madchester driven hooks. The Sydney based band are less cemented in location however – i...