In Conversation
Podcasts
Part I of a wide-ranging, informal chat between "Three Unexpected Drummers" - Lol Tolhurst (The Cure), Budgie (Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Slits, Big in Japan and The Creatures) and me.
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Part II of the same pontifications, going off on all sorts of tangents, with this episode enigmatically labelled "But we are not the kitchen fairies" - you'll have to listen to find out.
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I talk to Chris and Hunter who operate "The Melt", exploring phenomena that fall distinctly off the beaten track, music being one strand of their alternative universe.
YouTube Interviews
Bret Helm's Life on this Planet: Ranking Dead Can Dance albums
Bret and I met online at the beginning of the new millennium as label-mates on Sam Rosenthal's Projekt - Bret with his band Audra, and me with my first solo album.​In this edition of his channel "Life on this Planet", Bret introduces me to post-punk/indie music aficionados Greg Fasolino and Frank Deserto, and I join their deliberations over the DCD back-catalogue.
Fairfax City Music: interview Part I
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Channel founder and host Claudio Bustamante's deep passion for a vast range of music has endeared him to musicians far and wide and allowed him to collate a truly extraordinary library of interviews.
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His subscribership (is that a word?) has been growing exponentially in recognition of this considerable feat.
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If you have the staying power, he's interviewed me three times so far, and tells me he's not yet done with me................!
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Parts 1, 2 and 3 available below.
Pale Blooms and Beyond
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I talk to longtime Dead Can Dance and 4AD enthusiast Greg Shanks along a course plotted by my memoir.
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Visit his YouTube channel here.
Online Radio
Afternoon Drive on Coral Rockks on 985CKWR
Coral Andrews - who broadcasts from Kitchener, Ontario in Canada - has been a fantastic supporter of my music over the years, and this is an appearance I made on her show in the lead-up to publication of my memoir.
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That Eric Alper Show on SiriusXM
Seems like I'm favoured by Canadian radio... Eric broadcasts on Toronto headquartered SiriusXM and invited me on for this warm chat.
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Interview Features in the Written Word
The website of Glen Johnson, formerly front man of Piano Magic and a fellow 4AD alumni (albeit in slightly different eras). A dozen years or so after I guested on Piano Magic's Ovations album, Glen and I met up for a coffee in London's Barbican Centre where the conversation was captured on Glen's roving recording device and subsequently transcribed.
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It's Psychedelic Baby
Klemen Breznikar was introduced to me by the Infinite Fog label when it re-released my Pathways and Dawns album in 12" vinyl format in 2020. Klemen interviewed me about the release, and then again around the publication of my memoir a couple of years later.
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An interview request from Lin Bensley has turned into a much-valued friendship. Lin is both an established journalist and published author with an encyclopedic knowledge of music, film, arts and East Anglian folklore. This interview, published in a local magazine in our neck of the woods represents our first encounter.