January 2011
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'SHEPHERD'S PI' INTERVIEW - EMMY THE GREAT
You know that time of night, when you are lying in bed, halfway between asleep and awake and you suddenly realise you have been crying for the last 5 minutes because your parents have never told you that they love you? Or you are sitting at work, idly staring at your left hand, trying to figure out where that scar came from which jolts the memory of a girl you saw only once as the bus pulled away...
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'SHEPHERD'S PI' INTERVIEW - SHOUT OUT LOUDS
Every now and then I do a spot of moonlighting from Audiojunkies when I’m asked to do interviews for certain publications or websites. For reasons unbeknownst to me it’s always Scandinavian bands that need generic questions thrown at them by me. When did I become the person to go to for our Scando friends? Why all of a sudden am I the only music journo with the capacity to string words together...
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'SHEPHERD'S PI' INTERVIEW - THE OCTOPUS PROJECT
When I was eight I used to take my classmates on supernatural tours around the spooky areas of our South London primary school. According to little Jed, our school was at some kind of Hellmouth crossroads where the slightest step could see you fall into the black pits of oblivion. This is the rough guide to my made-up school ghosts: There was THE GREY LADY: I used to point to a random staircase...
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'SHEPHERD'S PI' INTERVIEW - SALLY SHAPIRO
There is a controversial theory that Sweden is merely a conspiracy of cartographers. People who live in Sweden are really in the basement of a really big ship with lots of turn right signs and astro turf. Those who wish to visit Sweden on their holidays are instead flown to a BBC studio where they are drugged, hypnotised and brainwashed into thinking they spent the last two weeks in...
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'SHEPHERD'S PI' INTERVIEW - JONATHAN KING
Now that Boris is in, times they are a changing. Our lovely alcoholics -surely a British institution - can’t drink on public transport anymore without being hassled by staff doing their jobs; he wants to prevent our beautiful street gangs from killing children who were probably asking for it anyway; he wants to phase out bendy buses just because they are vehicular death traps and most...
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'SHEPHERD'S PI' INTERVIEW - MANDA RIN
Most of you will know Manda Rin from her swashbuckling jaunt as a percentage of the poppiest super-band BIS. Since Bis exploded in a blaze of sweet glory, Manda was briefly in The Kitchen (before it got too hot) and then finally onto data Panik. DP has now shimmied off this mortal coil, but their never released album will be uploaded to their website to buy some time in the near future. Yes kids,...
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'SHEPHERD'S PI' INTERVIEW - CULPRIT ONE
A brand new Interview concept to Audiojunkies, ‘SHEPHERD’S PI!’. Its a regular interview with a musician, but at the end there is a maths question! Yes, you read right, a Maths question. It’s the sort of music journalism that makes the kids sigh with post-modern feelings of joy. First up we have Culprit One, who has recently had success remixing the Automatic’s pretty...
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'SHEPHERD'S PI' INTERVIEW - TEGAN & SARA
The best thing about being able to breathe underwater is not the ability to discover submerged Romanesque cities populated with delicate mermaids who all look a bit like Lindsey Lohan – no, it’s the ability to use your gills as an impromptu CD rack for those awkward moments when you get caught short. Similarly, the best thing about being a twin is not the capacity for your Extra Sensory Perception...
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'SHEPHERD'S PI' INTERVIEW - OWEN PALLETT
It’s a well known fact that if you sit facing backwards on a London bus, it is the closest you will get to the experience of time-travel without actually doing it. The overpowering sense of the unknown, coupled with nausea and fear add to the simulation. Coincidentally this is also the feeling I get when I listen to ‘He Poos Clouds’ by Final Fantasy, but being a seasoned time-traveler (26 trips to...
