News — Isolation

 Interview by Isabella Eastwood This interview ran a little differently – for one, it went on for over a week – as it was all done via WhatsApp chat. However, despite being a lot more confusing than expected with everyone dipping in and out of the conversation, going about our daily lives (as is symptomatic of digital dialogue), I managed to get all the main information relating to L-Space’s song of choice, their lockdown lives and projects to come. The result was a bit of a jigsaw puzzle of Q&As to put together, but what else is lockdown for, if...

Interview by Isabella Eastwood.   Honoured to initiate The Martial Arts’ Paul Kelly into the world of Facebook videocalls, Paul and I discussed how Glasgow’s musicians are coping with the (now easing) physical and social restrictions to our freedoms. Nursing a hangover (we’ve all been there) we talked about stealing pint glasses, vexatious cyclists, and being a philistine. As it turns out, Paul nearly didn’t commit to the Isolation Sessions: “Initially I wasn’t going to do it. Gary asked me the day after lockdown started, which also happened to be the day after my birthday; so I was hungover, on...

Interview by Isabella Eastwood - April 2020 In the first of a virtual set of Isolation Interviews, I speak to Robin of Deer Leader, one of LNFG’s more recent recruits. Resentfully eyeing up the garden he is sitting in, the conversation rolls out easily – isolation makes friends out of all of us – and Robin explains why Deer Leader didn’t cover his favourite track off the Lemon Drink EP, jigsaw puzzles, and “the need to be the shiniest hamster on the wheel”. Needless to say, a lockdown will impact everybody differently, with some finding a more space to breathe,...