Obsessions with John Robb

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“Amateur astronomy is just looking at groovy things and there are a lot of groovy things up there to look at…. I mean Saturn… you could spend ages just looking at it… thinking… that thing exists and its just so beautiful and unlikely… it just looks so artistically good.” Wilko Johnson is an Engli…

Jennifer Lucy Allan is a writer with a specialism in esoteric sound & experimental music, with a PhD in the sound of the foghorn. She presents for BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction and has worked as a music journalist for over a decade, working as an online editor for The Wire and writing freelance…

Lindy Fay Hella, Norwegian singer / musician and co-founder of Wardruna, speaks to John Robb about her interest in the power of scent and her passion for perfume making. More on Wardruna... “Wardruna is a Norwegian music constellation dedicated to creating musical renditions of ancient Norse an…

"I definitely believe that places can store a feeling... or buildings can... I've had it numerous times... I've walked into somewhere... mostly London, funnily enough... underground stations where I've felt a wall of atmosphere change, like walking through a curtain of atmosphere change and just fe…

“I think that the main intention that I have through all of this for myself ... is to remember who I am beyond my conditioning because we take on so many layers of a lot of bs conditioning from the word go with how our society is set up, and so I think a big part of it is peeling back all of that t…

“There’s a feeling of elation you get from Cider which I don’t think you get from any other drink. It’s partly because when you drink beer, the hops are soporific and you get that tiredness… and wine can be quite a depressive kind of drink... if you over do it on red wine… but Cider is unique in it…

"We’re in the midst of all kinds of crises ... and I think one way through these great challenges is to encourage a greater degree of kinship between species, between ourselves and the more than human world. I look at species like the Wrens finding a way despite their isolationous tendencies at non…

"There's a certain kind of thrill that you get from the Horror genre, that you don't get from every film... I guess I'm always looking for that film... that scares me, which is kind of a strange passion." James Chapman a.k.a. Maps is a recording artist and producer signed to Mute Records. His uniqu…

Jez Kerr is the bassist & vocalist from A CERTAIN RATIO. "(I’m) basically on a mission to try and find my painting... I think everyone has got a certain style, you know? And I’m sort of trying to find, you know, the painting that’s… when you look at it you’ll go… oh.. that’s a Jez Kerr. "  A Ce…