Tag Archives: Interviews

The fabulous Section Eleven

By anne c | Published: 15 December 2009
Regulars at the Sovereign are in for a real treat on Saturday night as not only is it the pub’s Christmas party, the fabulous dance band Section Eleven will be playing their infectious mix of Latin grooves. I have to confess, the first time I heard them play I had been dragged rather reluctantly, protesting loudly [...]
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Hello, I’m Charlie Wilson

By anne c | Published: 22 November 2009
After several vague promises to get in touch (mine, I shamefully admit), I finally had the chance to sit down with Stokey’s answer to Elvis and our very own Man in Black, Charlie Wilson – lead singer of the Brick Lane Boogie Boys. Hello Charlie, The Boogie Boys are practically a Stokey institution and must be [...]
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First Blood – An Interview with local author D.C. Pae

By Tom | Published: 25 March 2009
D.C. Pae is a young author here in Stoke Newington, whose first novel, The Imperium of Steves, is coming out from Quartet Books on Thursday, 26 March (and the lovely people at Stoke Newington Bookshop have promised to stock it.) Getting published isn’t easy of course, so I caught up with her to see if [...]
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Adventures in Striddyland – An interview with Astrid Brook

By Tom | Published: 23 March 2009
Astrid Brook is a local singer and songwriter, a generally lovely person, and probably as nice an urban hippie as you could ever hope to meet. I met up with her in The Lion to talk about her new album, her charity work in Sri Lanka and all things Stoke Newington. How long have you been [...]
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Bringing It All Back Home

By DanielChester | Published: 8 March 2009
I’m nostalgic for a time I didn’t live through, a time when music was a pastime and a passion not a means to stardom and fortune. A time when musicians played to the local town and maybe sometimes the next town across and they sang about what was happening around them and what was relevant [...]
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An Interview with Tallulah Rendall

By Tom | Published: 6 March 2009
For our first interview here on Stereo Stokey I met up with wonderful singer & songwriter Tallulah Rendall. We met in The Defoe to do the interview, and to tell you the truth, I was shitting myself. Turned out there was no need for that at all, and we had a great chat about lions, [...]
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