Are there any contemporary music magazines you’re a fan of?
The only ones I’m fans of are the ones written in languages I don’t understand – Bant from Istanbul, for example. To be quite frank, I’ve never really been a fan of music critics. In 2002 you set up the magazine Careless Talk Costs Lives. Why did you decide to create your own magazine? See above (answer about The Legend!) – no one was offering me a voice so I had to create my own platform once again. Um, that’s not entirely true. First, I was writing heavily on the web at the tail-end of the dot.com boom and fed up with reviewing the same six albums every week for five different places. I was making plenty of money, sure, but I was becoming increasingly frustrated at the fact there was all this great, great music going ignored by the corporate editors – is you go to www.tangents.co.uk all of this is quite well documented in my archived journals. Second, crazed genius photographer Steve Gullick asked me to come in with him. It was his idea. I supplied the grunts. Can you tell me about
