My interview with UK Rock legend Francis Rossi of Status Quo.

Stephanie Darkes Podcast - Francis Rossi

Championed by David Bowie in the early days, Placebo's post-grunge androgynous style of alt rock was a welcome injection of dark glamour for the Brit Pop scene. Stephanie Darkes spoke to 'the glue', bassist, techie, guitarist and the man behind the scenes from the early days, Bill Lloyd.

Loved interviewing Bill Lloyd, the guitarist from Placebo.  He had some fantastic stories, including memories of Jeff Buckley.

Article here from the Croydon Advertiser: http://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/meet-croydon-man-placebo/story-19215345-detail/story.html

Thanks to Tony at The Soap Company for production.

Interview with Bill Lloyd from Placebo

On June 15th 2013 Fairfield Halls brought the Southbank to Croydon with ‘Listen to this’

“a unique musical collaboration… a thrilling musical hybrid creating a unique moment in music history.”

I had the privilege of speaking to Simon Thomsett the Fairfield Halls CEO, Charles Hazlewood and Tom Jenkinson about their work, listen to this and what it means to us in Croydon.Led by Charles Hazlewood, pioneering conductor and founder of the Paralympic orchestra. With boundary pushing electronic artist Tom Jenkinson (aka Squarepusher) and the Southbank Sinfonia – an orchestra devoted to developing the orchestral musicians of the future.

Interview: Squarepusher and Charles Hazlewood

The man behind Dreadzone, Greg Roberts talks about his new album Escapades, Mick Jones, sampling music, being John Peel’s favourite drummer and appearing on Top of the Pops.

Interview: Greg Roberts - Dreadzone

Interview with Procol Harum's keyboardist Matthew Fisher.

Interview: Matthew Fisher - Procol Harum

a sketch of a tune for our lullaby project
music: Lou Andrews
Vox: Steph Darkes

Dear prudence lullaby sketch version one

A tune by the wonderful Soap Company featuring vocals by me!

01 Planet Me (with The Soap Company)

Songbird cover

Had to share this brilliant answerphone message from the owner of The Alchemist to tell me that it's back open - it's bloody great and so is the restaurant! If you didn't get a chance to go, it's a real treat, a co-operative BYOB restaurant in a house in Addiscombe, I promise that it is a unique dining experience (much like this answerphone message.. enjoy! 

Oh and here's an article about it in the Croydon Cit from a few years ago. I wrote a piece for the advertiser but it seems they deleted all the local news from their website ;)
>> https://thecroydoncitizen.com/culture/alchemist-273-morland-road-cr0-6he/

Stephanie

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