We’ve been spring cleaning again (only virtually so – The Cheese on Toast HQ is still a freakin’ mess IRL!) and here’s a wee post of some older interviews we still have floating around on “teh interweb” – maybe there’s something here you missed the first time around, yo….

QUICK CHAT WITH AYAD OF PASSION PIT AT BIG DAY OUT
Cheese on Toast got to have a very quick chat with Ayad Al Adhamy (2nd from left, below)from Passion Pit yesterday morning at Big Day Out before they played.

Click here to have a listen!

THE DECEMBERISTS AT BIG DAY OUT
Cheese on Toast got to meet up with Chris Funk and John Moen (the two guys at the back, below) from The Decemberists yesterday afternoon at Big Day Out.

Click here to have a listen – they were pretty hilarious!

PONYTAIL
Cheese on Toast talked with Molly from Ponytail ahead of them arriving to play two NZ shows next week – Monday they play SFBH and Tuesday they play Whammy.

We talked about the unusual story behind how Ponytail was formed, being an ‘experimental’ band, and Molly’s ‘lyrics’.

Listen to the interview here:

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THE DODOS
We spoke with Logan Kroeber, drummer from The Dodos the other week – we talked about the evolution of The Dodos, with a third album and a third member. Logan also let slit that The Dodos will be playing at Camp A Low Hum when they come to New Zealand in January.

Listen to the interview here

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VAMPIRE WEEKEND
Cheese on Toast spoke with Chris Baio from Vampire Weekend the other week when they were visiting Sydney.

We chatted about the amazing new album Contra (Cheese on Toast head honcho guy Andrew Tidball got to go listen to the album in the record company’s lounge).

Listen to the interview here:

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interesting factoid : Chris Baio is Scott Baio’s (Charles in Charge) cousin!

BANGGANG DEEJAYS
We spoke with Jamie from Bnag Gang DJs about how they started out as a DJ group – what that even, means really, working as a team and stuff….

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ROWLAND S HOWARD
Cheese on Toast spoke with Rowland S Howard, legendary musician, formerly of The Birthday Party with Nick Cave – who has recently released his second solo album (after ten years) Pop Crimes.

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Rowland explains the gap between records, the difficulties he faces recording this new album, discusses song choice and talks about his love of music.
(edit : one of the last ever interviews with Rowland who sadly passed away not long after this was recorded)

CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE

Cheese on Toast spoke with Owen Ashworth AKA Casiotone For The Painfully Alone recently on the phone about coming to New Zealand this November, playing with his brother’s act Concern, his latest record, bank robbers and how he got the moniker.

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BAGRAIDERS

Bag Raiders are a Sydney based production / deejay duo. They are presently celebrating the joining of the Modular stables and the release of their single
Shooting Stars on 12″ vinyl .

Cheese on Toast spoke with Chris on the phone the other week …

Listen to the interview here – [mp3]

DANANANANAYKROYD
Dananananaykroyd are a six-peice post-hardcore band from Glasgow; but they call it ‘fight-pop’

Listen to the interview with former drummer, but now co-vocalist Calum Gunn – [mp3]

KILLAQUEENZ

KWEEN G and BELIZEAN BOMBSHELL are, together, KILLA QUEENZ – from Sydney, Australia.

Originally from Uganda and Belize, Kween G and Belizean Bombshell draw inspiration from their respective homelands to bring a fresh sound to the Australian Hip Hop scene.They first met at the 2000 Olympic Games where they were individually performing as dancers and through a passion of music KillaQueenz was formed.

Having recently released their debut album SISTARHOOD, which our pals over at Nerdy Frames blogged about it over a month ago, saying it encompassed the rap mastery of old-school greats with a focus on modern beat production (we paraphrase, but you get the drift) – Nerdy Frames drew some comaprison also to Florida’s Yo Majesty – which we’d have to agree with – only, so far, we reckon KillaQueenz are, actually, way better!

Last week, Cheese on Toast got to have a bit of a chat with KWEEN G… listen here [mp3]
AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT
In March 2006 in the one-week period while working on a novel, Mikel Jollett learned that his mother was diagnosed with cancer, he also experienced a break-up and was diagnosed with a genetic autoimmune disease which led him to develop Alopecia areata and Vitiligo. Spurred by these events in his personal life, Jollett turned from writing prose to writing songs as he realized he was composing an album instead of a novel, last week Cheese on Toast spoke with Mikel…

Listen to interview here – [mp3]

MATT JOE GOW
Cheese on Toast has a chat with up and coming alt country star Matt Joe Gow

Listen here [mp3]

PASSION PIT

Cheese on Toast interview with Nate – the drummer from Passion Pit : listen here [mp3]

MATT & KIM

Cheese on Toast spoke with Matt Johnson from Matt & Kim in April 2009.

Click here to listen to the interview [MP3]

SVEIN BERGE of ROYKSOPP

Cheese on Toast spoke to Svein from ROyksopp about their new album – listen here – [mp3]

MICHACHU & THE SHAPES
Cheese on Toast chatted with Mica Levi of Micachu & the Shapes

Listen to the interview here [mp3]

DINOSAUR JR

Cheese on Toast caught up with Lou Barlow to talk about the new forthcoming record Farms, his relationship with J Mascis, and reminisced about the late eighties when Sonic Youth declared themselves fans…

Listen to the interview here [mp3]