Dan Morelle

Interview 3: The Aloof, Illicit Persuits

Following on in the series of re-publishing interviews I did a while ago, here is an interview with The Aloof. I honestly have no recollection of doing the interview and was surprised when I stumbled upon it in a dusty back issue of G-echo December ’99! Alas, The Aloof do not appear to have done much since this outing although band members are also elements of the gestalt entities that are Sabres of Paradise and Red Snapper. This is the interview:
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Interview 2: The Herbaliser

Following on from my interview with Talvin Singh, in May 1999 I spoke to Ollie Teeba and Jake Wherry AKA The Herbaliser in who were releasing their new album ‘Very Mercenary‘. I had learned my lesson to let the interviewee speak and not make the interview about me. It helped that they were very chatty and I had their records in my box. Here we go:

After a hiatus of two years The Herbaliser, a crew led by Jake Wherry and DJ Ollie Teeba, have emerged from their home made studio in Twickenham to unleash their third album. Jake took time out of his busy schedule of rehearsing for the forthcoming tour and spoke to Dan Morelle.

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Interview 1: Talvin Singh, Talking Tablas

So, this was the first ever interview I did for G:Echo in November 1998. My University was around the corner from Brick Lane AKA Banglatown in East London. I saw Talvin across the road from me one day on Brick Lane and decided to approach him and ask for an interview he’d just released the eponymous first album entitled ‘ok‘ and was running Anhoka, Sounds of the Asian Underground – a night-club every Monday at the Blue Note in Hoxton – he gave me his number and I called him up, quite simple really! Anyway, the editor thought it was a major coup and it made the front page. Read More »

old adventures in hi-fi

Quite a few years ago I edited the music section of the magazine at the now rebranded London Metropolitain University. Its a typical ‘Dan’ story how I became appointed – for another time maybe. Needless to say it fully opened the already ajar door of blaggadon (my record/cd collection was doubling on a almost weekly basis) and meant I had some amazing oportunities to meet and interview some really creative people like Blackalicious/Quannum, Talvin Singh, The Herbalizer, Skunk Anansie, Tjinder Singh (of Cornershop) and loads of others. It also laid a nice foundation for my next project – setting up a radio station to broadcast to the whole of east london and beyond for 4 weeks in the summer of 2000.

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