mINterviews
minterview: Martha Reeves
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas are set to play the O2 Bournemouth Academy tonight and the Motown legend spoke to Mintsouth before the show. Despite reaching the ripe old age of 69, the ‘Dancing in the Streets’ and ‘Jimmy Mack’ singer showed no signs of slowing down when she chatted to Andy Lloyd-Williams. Have you [...]
mINterview: Coast
COAST are a Celtic rock band from Southampton. They have a wide range of influences from the likes of Runrig, Bruce Springsteen, Big Country to Dire Straits! The line up of Coast started with lead singer and composer Paul Eastham, who recorded some demo songs and realised they had a real professional sound.  They’re building a huge [...]
minterview: Once Upon A King
Once Upon a King are the latest project of ex-Ramblings frontman, Johnny Levett. Describing themselves as rock-opera, they probably have the most unique sound of all the local bands. Â We caught up with Johnny to find out more. Who is in the band and what do you do? I do a bit of dancing, Jocelyn [...]
minterview: Blind Mans Vision
Blind Man’s Vision are set to play The Talking Heads tomorrow (Friday, 19th November) and they tell us they are the kind of band that want you for life. From the slow burning story of love- ‘Sun comes to my room’, to the comedic, yet disturbing – ‘Satan and the necrophiliac’. They’re not looking to grab [...]
minterview: The Boy I Used To Be
Edward Perry hails from Portsmouth and plays acoustically under the name of “The Boy I Used To Be”. Â You may have been lucky enough to catch him at the recent Oxjam Takeover Festival in Southampton, where he played The Old Fat Cat stage. Â We caught up with Edward for a chat (or rather, asked him [...]
mINterview: Chris Jericho from Fozzy
Wrestling superstar, Brett Summers, was given the opportunity to interview wrestling legend Chris Jerico, ahead of his visit to Southampton’s Talking Heads, with his band, Fozzy.
mINterview: Joey from Suicide Party
Southampton band, Suicide Party, have recently returned from a tour in Germany where they have been making a name for themselves by tearing up venues. Although not literally, (any-more), as front-man Joey Ackland is clearly taking this band a lot more seriously than his previous ventures, and the hard work is already starting to pay [...]
mINterview: Therapy?
People can find comfort in the strangest of things. Music is one of them, as individuals look to transpose their emotions and experiences onto someone else’s work, creating an audio patchwork to wrap around their lives and getting happily caught up in a complete stranger’s rhythms, scratches and feedback. Take the long-standing, alternative band Therapy? [...]
minterview: Daevid Allen from Gong
Posted by Bedbox November 4, 2009 Legendary, psychedelic rock band Gong are celebrating their 40th anniversay of live touring this year with core members of the original line-up reuniting for an extremely rare UK tour in November that calls in at Brighton Corn Exchange on November 29th. Daevid Allen, Steve Hillage and co have also [...]
minterview: Gerry 6NS interviews Howard Marks
Here are some clips I found from 20 months ago (February 2009) which I Â found whilst going through some old Google searches (when attempting to recover some of our deleted content) Â I thought it would be quite timely to put this up again today seeing as Howards film “Mr Nice”, starring Rhys Ifans as Howard, [...]