As a huge fan of Amoeba's What's In My Bag? series and the regular Baker's Dozen features on the Quietus, I've written before about the simple pleasures of hearing musicians talk passionately and insightfully about their favourite records, often revealing obsessions and interests that you wouldn't otherwise be able to guess at. So it was inevitable that the Wrong Speed Record Chats, hosted by Wrong Speed Records founder and Hey Colossus bassist Joe Thompson, would strike a chord.
The latest finds Thompson talking to Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite about albums by The God Machine, Fever Ray, The Velvet Underground and Lana Del Rey, among others, while everyone from Burzum and Danzig to Rites Of Spring and Taylor Swift crop up in conversation. So too does Braithwaite's own appearance on What's In My Bag? (which, it transpires, cost him rather more than anticipated), the very limited edition Mogwai-branded distortion pedal (one of which Thompson owns) and, inevitably, the surreal experience of topping the album charts with As The Love Continues.
It was bittersweet hearing the pair talk fondly of All Tomorrow's Parties - it brought memories of some wonderful weekends flooding back, but had me both lamenting the festival's demise and kicking myself (once again) for not going to any of the events held between Mogwai's own inaugural bash in 2000 and the Breeders-curated one in 2008. So much great stuff missed. Sadly, I doubt we'll ever see their like again.
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