On January 21st and 22nd
2015 a two-day event, titled: “Industrielle Volksmusik for the 21st
century”, in essence an academic conference on German electronic music pioneers
KRAFTWERK was held at Aston University, Birmingham, organised by Dr. Uwe
Schutte (see Episode # 34).
The university asked attendees to refrain from
recording any audio from the actual event. Therefore the following program does
not contain any recordings from said event.
However, we were allowed to approach panelists
and attendees during breaks. We managed to record quite a number of interesting
interviews.
Interviewees included David Stubbs, a
well-known music reviewer, who talked to us about his new book ‘Future Days’, a
book on “Krautrock”, what Kraftwerk means to him and he even answered our
off-topic questions about synthesizer legend Vince Clarke.
Other interviews include a brief one with
panelist David Pattie about his book ‘Kraftwerk – Music non-stop’ and what his
lecture was about. Furthermore we talked to people from Sweden and Australia as
well as with Bill Wallsgrove, who owned a music label for a while. He also has
a clear love for vinyl and is currently writing an in-depth book on vinyl
collectors, titled: “Kings of Vinyl”. And that’s not all …
Photo credit: Nicole Valentin
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