Dmitry Nechaev

FAULT: Tell us about your new album? I think IGNIS FATUUS represents a big part of my life. It is a sort of a major synopsis of what I am trying to bring in the music culture. It turns out, that all the metaphors I’ve been going through are reflected in its core. I believe that makes the listener travel from one state to another, gathering pieces of ideas into their own artwork. It has a good…

Time To Crossover: Future Art Emerges At Hackney Wicked

Words and photography MATTHEW MILES On the ‘wrong side’ of the Olympic Park blue fence, and hemmed in by a canal and a dual carriageway, the industrial warehouses of Hackney Wick were easy to ignore. Then its creative festival began making some noise – and new trends in art too. With a combination of permanent galleries, pop-up group shows, street performance, music, theatre, stalls and…

LET ME OUT! The Vacant Lots

Influenced by groups such as Bo Diddley, The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, Spacemen 3 and The Brian Jonestown Massacre, the alternative rock sound of Burlington, Vermont duo The Vacant Lots is made up of Jared Artaud and 17 year old drummer Brian Macfadyen.  Combining minimal drumming, hypnotic guitar riffs, electronic drones, poetry-driven lyrics, and live film projections, The Vacant Lots…

FAULT Favourite: Doris Brendel

To anyone wondering what Doris Brendel has been up to since the days of the Violet Hour, Holy Cow, JJ tribute & Easy To Love, here's a sample of some tunes written by yours truly in collaboration with Dave Beeson, guitarist & producer extraordinaire. Doris Brendel's lastest album 'The Last Adventure' is due for release on the 1st November on Sky-Rocket records. FAULT:  What is the…

WATER MUSIC

FAULT FEATURED: Musician: Water Music Photos by Emma-Jane Johnston At their home known mysteriously as Large Red, with one and a half microphones, six working tracks of an 8-Track, an athritic dog and feral cat, Mattyb along with his co-conspirator Johnny Sparkelchops, publicly explore the battle between light and dark, brain and heart, wine and ciggies in this current incarnation, Water…

The pain for girls

http://www.myspace.com/thepainforgirls FAULT: What’s the story behind The pain for girls ? How did you meet? Tommy: The pain for girls is one concept. The purpose of starting is to do creative activities widely. Not only music, but also fashion, pictures, books, movies ?even the ones that I haven't even meet yet?. I have interest in all of those magnificent arts. Those arts give me very…