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"I like the shed... you’re going through parts of your life being reminded of who you are." Graham Coxon answers our Life & Times questions. It's a free edition: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #639 November 2: Graham Coxon
“ I like to ape around and not act my age”
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"Highs, lows and heavenly blows..." Check out our Life & Times chat with Sonic Boom, aka Pete Kember. It's a free edition, link in bio: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #610 July 20: Sonic Boom
"Highs, lows and heavenly blows"
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"Kim Gordon stole my chair..." @yardact.bsky.social frontman James Smith takes on our Life & Times questions and talks about painting, Kim Gordon's chair theft, getting a Skittle stuck up his nose and much more. It's a free edition: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #604 June 29: Yard Act's James Smith
"Kim Gordon stole my chair"
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"Determination is my superpower..." Embrace frontman Danny McNamara takes on our Life & Times questions. It's a free edition: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #602 June 22: Danny McNamara of Embrace
"Determination is my superpower"
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"You don’t need a doctor’s note to write a sad song..." Ahead of his debut solo album, @alt_J frontman Joe Newman takes on our Life & Times questions. Lovely fella, great answers. It's a free edition: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #598 June 8: Alt-J's Joe Newman
"You don’t need a doctor’s note to write a sad song..."
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"I don’t make music, music makes me..." A Life & Times classic with the one and only Tricky. It's a free edition: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #593 May 18: Tricky
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"Breakfast, I’d back myself..." Kasabian's Serge Pizzorno is a man of many talents but don't ask him to make a roast. He explains all in his Life & Times interview. It's a free edition: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #591 May 11: Kasabian's Serge Pizzorno
"Breakfast, I’d back myself"
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"Someone said yesterday about Kid A and it being a brave, bold move creatively to do that… it didn’t feel like that at all at the time, it felt like we were just trying to seek something new." Radiohead's Ed O'Brien takes on our Life & Times interview: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #585 April 20: Ed O'Brien
"I’m down with the service station"
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“My worst habit is my superpower, which is fantasy. Why is it? Because it makes life incredibly interesting all the time, but it also makes practical things impractical.” -- The excellent Melissa Auf Der Maur takes on our Life & Times interview: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #583 April 13: Melissa Auf Der Maur
"Be guardians of each other’s solitude..."
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"I just don’t want to be really old and going onstage..." A very enjoyable Life & Times chat with electro-pop don Vince Clarke: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #581 March 30: Vince Clarke
"Dennis Waterman, are you kidding?!"
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"I challenge you to not pat the chat." A very entertaining Life & Times interview with the excellent Liam Bailey. It's a free edition: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #577 March 16: Liam Bailey
"Don’t be chatty patty, stop it"
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"A child selling babygrows with fetish images on them..." Florence Shaw of Dry Cleaning takes on our Life & Times interview. It's a freebie, with an audio bonus for our paid subscriber legends: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #573 March 2: Dry Cleaning's Florence Shaw
"A child selling babygrows with fetish images on them..."
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Great interview this. Steve Mason is such an underrated singer/songwriter.
The New Cue@thenewcue.bsky.social · 9mo ago"Being munched by a snake during Paranoid Android..." In today's TNC, the excellent @SteveMasonKBT takes on our Life & Times questions. It's a free edition: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
"Being munched by a snake during Paranoid Android..." In today's TNC, the excellent @SteveMasonKBT takes on our Life & Times questions. It's a free edition: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #565 February 2: Steve Mason
"Being munched by a snake during Paranoid Android..."
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"There’s no other part of my life that I’d rather be in than now" Lucy Rose takes on our Life & Times interview. It's a free edition: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #563 January 26: Lucy Rose
"Just take the pie out the pie pot"
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"We were always committed to our idealism..." Gary Jarman of @thecribs.bsky.social takes on our Life & Times questionnaire. It's a free edition, get stuck in: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #559 January 12: Gary Jarman of The Cribs
"We’re twin brothers, I don’t know if you’ve noticed..."
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"Elton John had a crush on me..." Wreckless Eric takes on our Life & Times interview, including tales of Captain Beefheart, Ian Dury, Elton John, drunk driving, getting nicked, the misery of poverty, the majesty of love and much more. It's a free edition: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #554 December 15: Wreckless Eric
"Elton John had a crush on me."
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"It’s OK to be mad at people..." @sleafordmods.bsky.social frontman Jason Williamson takes on our Life & Times questionnaire. It's a free edition, go on: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #552 December 1: Sleaford Mods' Jason Williamson
"It’s OK to be mad at people"
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"Get over yourself..." In today's edition, Insecure Men ringleader and ex-Fat White Family man Saul Adamczewski takes on our Life & Times interview. Very enjoyable. It's a free edition, read it here: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #550 November 24: Insecure Men's Saul Adamczewski
"Get over yourself"
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"Happiness is an inside job..." George Evelyn, the ringleader behind Nightmares On Wax, takes on our Life & Times interview. It's a free edition: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #548 November 17: George Evelyn of Nightmares On Wax
"Happiness is an inside job"
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"Are Radiohead huddle people?" Forty-eight hours with Radiohead in Madrid... thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #546 November 12: Forty-eight hours with Radiohead in Madrid
"Are Radiohead huddle people?"
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"I drank rat poison..." Lisa O'Neill takes on our Life & Times questionnaire. It's a free edition, read it here: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #545: November 10: Lisa O'Neill
"I drank rat poison..."
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"Making that record saved my life." Mercury Prize-nominated jazz polymath Emma-Jean Thackray takes on our Life & Times interview. It's a free edition: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #537 October 13: Emma-Jean Thackray
"I spend 90% of my time alone, being inside music."
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"I'm a Manchester manifester." The Charlatans frontman @tim-burgess.bsky.social takes on our Life & Times questionnaire. It's a free edition: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #535 October 6: Tim Burgess of The Charlatans
"I'm a Manchester manifester."
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"I’m a superstar, I’ve got a limousine." Donovan takes on our Life & Times questionnaire. It's epic: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #532 September 29: Donovan
"I’m a superstar, I’ve got a limousine."
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"An honest person doesn't need to speak." The great Cass McCombs takes on our Life & Times questionnaire. It's a free edition: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #530 September 22: Cass McCombs
"If I went to ancient Greece, would I be able to talk to Socrates?"
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"There’s probably a German word for when you’re robbed of your time via the internet..." Baxter Dury takes on our Life & Times interview. It's a free edition, get stuck in: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #527, September 15: Baxter Dury
"I was the illest person in the hospital."
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"Me being satisfied is not the purpose of being creative" Jehnny Beth takes on our Life & Times interview and pulls apart the questions. A very enjoyable read, and it's a free edition: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #524 September 8: Jehnny Beth
"Definitely not monogamy..."
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"Mick Jagger told me to not buy a boat, borrow a friend’s... since it’s the only advice that Mick Jagger gave to me, I want to apply it to everything in my life." @thehives.com frontman Pelle Almqvist takes on our Life & Times questionnaire: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #522 September 1: Pelle Almqvist
"Mick Jagger told me to not buy a boat, borrow a friend’s"
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"When you lose someone so close you wake up to seeing what’s important" Today's edition is an emotional Life & Times interview with Alan Sparhawk (@lowtheband.bsky.social). It's a freebie, you won't regret it: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
The New Cue #515 August 4: Alan Sparhawk
"When you lose someone so close you wake up to seeing what’s important"
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