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BELLE & SEBASTIAN 2006 | ISSUE 541 Frontman Stuart Murdoch tells us: ‘The group got together and we had beginners’ luck. Then it got harder. Easy. Harder. Then easy again . . . There’s a danger in being too critical, because you’d never make anything. It’s vastly more important to take the next step and make something new.’ (Interview by Mark Robertson) ANDREA ARNOLD 2006 | ISSUE 560 The director of Red Road tells us: ‘The great French filmmaker Robert Bresson said “Build your film on stillness, whiteness and silence.” I’m always quoting Bresson, he had lots of good things to say.’ (Interview by Paul Dale)
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22 THE LIST 1 Sep–31 Oct 2018
MOGWAI 2006 | ISSUE 546 We acclaim their latest album Mr Beast, saying the music ‘is so transcendent and expansive. So big. beautiful and clever that it can soundtrack the effervescent skills of the world’s greatest footballer as perfectly as it can the glowing yellow l uorescent streets of Glasgow. The beast has legs and it knows exactly where it’s going.’ (Written by Mark Robertson) DOUGLAS GORDON 2006 | ISSUE 561 Praising the artist’s work ‘30 Second Text’, we say: ‘It reports the true story of an experiment in which a doctor attempted to communicate with the decapitated head of a man immediately after his execution by guillotine. It is morbid, fascinating, and if you time it right, the simple denouement transports you all the way to the guillotine.’ (Written by Nick Barley)
TILDA SWINTON 2008 | ISSUE 614 Of her latest i lm, Julia, Swinton says: ‘I like the randomness of suddenly i nding yourself in a completely different i lm: a thriller, a gangster movie, and a i lm noir. Formally, it’s risky but in terms of atmosphere and territory, it’s really radical. It feels like the beginning of the work that I‘ve been looking forward to doing all my life.’ (Written by Miles Fielder)
DAVID SHRIGLEY 2010 | ISSUE 665 The Glasgow-based artist tells us: ‘I suppose the voice I speak with in my work is someone who doesn’t have a sound grasp on all the realities of life. It’s someone who thinks all the really unimportant things are massively important and equally, pays no attention to massively important things.’ (Interview by Claire Sawers)
IAN RANKIN 2007 | ISSUE 589 The famous crime writer takes over the editor’s chair, interviewing one of his favourite bands, Saint Jude’s Ini rmary, hooking up with Aidan Moffat in New York where ‘we found that we share a lifelong passion for comic books and graphic novels . . . Plus we spend a night on the town with the Edinburgh cops. Enjoy.’ YOUNG FATHERS 2015 | ISSUE 733 The award-winning band tell us about their latest album White Men are Black Men Too: ‘The main ethos behind the album was to simplify: less is more, minimal is maximal . . . It’s in the pop format, it’s driven and to the point. You try to say as much as you can in four lines and that’s a challenge in itself.’ (Interview by Henry Northmore)