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Dieses Interview wurde bereits um 1995 schriftlich geführt, nie veröffentlicht und von der Autorin freundlicherweise zur Verfügung gestellt. Nichts Neues unter der Sonne? Einige Fragen an Anthony Charles Wakeford von der Gruppe Sol Invictus Die 1988 mit der Mini-LP „Against The Modern World“ aus der Taufe gehobene Band Sol Invictus war ursprünglich für den rauhesten Folk-Sound der Neofolk-Bands aus dem Londoner World-Serpent-Label-Umfeld bekannt, entwickelte sich mittlerweile jedoch in die Bereiche neoklassischer Musik. Gegründet von dem einflußreichen Chaos-Magier Ian Read und dem Death-in-June-Aussteiger Tony Wakeford, benannte man sich nach der persischen…

TONY WAKEFORD VOR TRÚ INTERVIEW This interview was published at the end of 1996 in Vor Trú, PO Box 961, Payson, Arizona 85547, USA, which is produced by and for the Asatrú Alliance of Independent Kindreds. Subscriptions are: North America first class mail – $18 for 4 issues; European Airmail – $26 for 4 issues; Australia & New Zealand Airmail – $28 for 4 issues. Please make all payments in US funds to Vor Trú in cash, by cheque, or by money order. How did your worldview change during the…

Solstice d’été .998 era vulgaris. Nous recevions alors dans notre émission radiophonique Le Miracle de la Rose TONY WAKEFORD et SKALD pour un pique-nique improvisé, entretiens et sessions acoustiques. Pour être franc, en relisant (avec le recul) l’entretien qui suit avec le leader de l’infatigable SOL INVICTUS, on a du mal à comprendre où nous voulions en venir… et combien sont loin les sujets d’études qui nous parlaient « alors »… ici et maintenant… toujours est-il que ce week-end contribua de beaucoup à l’élaboration du TOPI, d’où sa valeur sentimentale (d’aucuns diront…

Sol Invictus – The Hill of Crosses Sol Invictus was formed by Tony Wakeford, several years after leaving the ranks of Death In June. In 1988 he began recording music again under the nom de plume Sol Invictus. In the course of 12 years Tony Wakeford has released around 15 albums as Sol Invictus, 2 as L’Orchestre Noir, and collaborations with Nurse With Wound’s Steven Stapleton, the young composer Matt Howden, and the US artist Tor Lundvall. Unlike the preceeding Sol Invictus recordings, on The Hill of Crosses Tony Wakeford…

HH: Greetings Tony. How are you? This November introduces a new Solo release. What can we expect from this album? TW : “Into The Woods” is nearing completion. Its not a concept album but it does in a very superficial way pay homage to some of the music I listened to in my youth. I speak of the music that dare not speak it’s name….. PROG! For me its a very English album reflecting my childhood and youth. Its a strange England populated by out of work hangmen, dubious priests and…

Ian Read ist schon ein schwer durchschaubarer Mensch. Doch wen wundert das, angesichts seiner Label-Collegen bei World Serpent? Seinen Name sollte 1986 erstmals Bedeutung erlangen, als er zusammen mit David Tibets Kultformation CURRENT 93 ein rituelles Stück für “Swastikas For Noddy” aufnahm. Seine pastorale Stimme wird von da an prägnant bleiben. Nach einem kurzen Gastspiel auf DEATH IN JUNEs “Brown Book” gründete er zwei Jahre später zusammen mit Tony Wakeford (früher CRISIS, DEATH IN JUNE, ABOVE THE RUINS) SOL INVICTUS. Auf der ersten LP “Against The Modern World” übernahm er…

Douglas, half a year has passed since the release of “The Rule Of Thirds”. How was this album received? Are you happy with the reactions? TROT was received extremely well, has sold very well and I’m happy and surprised by most of the critical reactions. I thought it would be a ‘difficult’ album for a lot of people at first listen but I had faith in it, like previous Death In June recordings and that was more than enough. In fact, new listeners have been gained and I’ve been reviewed…

Interview with Douglas P. and Tony Wakeford about the Crisis era (Aldo Chimenti for Rockerilla) 1.Why after 3 decades did you decide stopping the blackout and talking again about your early punk experience with Crisis? Well Doug has always handled the Crisis side of things and even after all this time it still seems to have a kind of life of its own. It makes sense to have our perspective on it and I was pleasantly surprised at the quality (not sure thetas the right word!) of the final concert….

Interview with Douglas P. and Tony Wakeford about the Crisis era (Aldo Chimenti for Rockerilla) 1.Why after 3 decades did you decide stopping the blackout and talking again about your early punk experience with Crisis? We appear to have become more relaxed about an aspect of our joint past that was for many years a difficult memory to lose. Besides, with the various CD reissues of different Crisis releases including the new ‘Ends!’ CD of our final concert supporting Magazine and Bauhaus in May, 1980 it also seemed appropriate to…

Have you participated, in one way or another to the release of “Ends!” ? Only in being the skinny speed freak that played on it. This was very much down to Doug’s ideas and hard work. The fact to release this last concert can let suppose that this moment of your carreer has kept an importance in your mind. What kind of remembrance do you keep today from the end of this project, what does it represent in your soul ? To be honest even with the nostalgic glow of being slim…

How came the idea to release “Ends!”? A number of factors led to this writing of possibly the final chapter to the story of my first group Crisis. The American release in 2005 of the compilation album called ‘Holocaust Hymns’ was a success and, in turn, it’s led to an invitation to contribute the track ‘UK’79’ to another compilation album being prepared by Rough Trade/V2 that will also feature people like Neil Young, The Beat, Woody Guthrie, The Smiths and The Byrds! It’s very nice to be recognised so many…

You met each other in 1975. How exactly ? Well, if my memory is correct it was on a coach to London from Woking to attend a anti-Fascist event. As neither of us had comb overs or beards i think we kind of gravitated together. As shows « UK79 », chosen for our cd sampler, most of Crisis music was very genuine punk rock. Did you feel close to other punk bands of the time ? Not really. I suppose on the political level it was the The Clash. I think both Doug and…

You met each other in 1975. How exactly ? I think it was about late 1975 at either an anti-fascist demonstration or a meeting of leftist groups in Woking, my home town. By then Tony and I were involved in different Trotskyist groups and we were probably obliged to turn up at these meetings no matter how boring they normally were. Because we were the youngest representatives there of the new far left we got to talking. If my memory serves me well, and it may not, we were also both…

Balladeer of Doom – An interview with Douglas P., Part I Written by Helene Burkholder An interview with Douglas P., Part I Put yourself in my shoes, if you will: I get to do my first interview ever (a nerve-wracking experience in itself), and it happens to be with Douglas P., the man derrière le masque of Death in June. No sweat! … Preparing my questions, I had 517 butterflies (I counted them) in my stomach – I’m a huge fan of Death in June, albeit a more recent one,…

(French version here : http://gonzai.com/death-in-june-interview-jusquici-tout-va-bien/) DEATH IN JUNE (interview for Gonzaï) First, let’s go back to the French tour you tried to do two years ago. Most of the shows had been cancelled, and some of them were cancelled because of the French authorities. When I saw you on stage in Paris (Le Réservoir), I felt a strong angriness. Now with hindsight, two years after, what do you feel about this aborted tour ? The shows that did actually happen in Paris and Brest were, I thought, intense and good so the…

Last December you performed in Budapest again as part of your regular European Tour. What sort of memories do you have of the event? Well, first of all there’s nothing ever truly “regular” about any Death In June tour, wherever it may be. But, outside of that I very rarely ever remember actual performances themselves. Merely fragments of them. I tend to remember more things about a venue or city and I do remember passing you several times in the long, stark corridors of the venue that led from stage…

For someone who writes of the sanctity of solitude, Douglas P. has been very busy putting himself on stage in front of as many people as possible these past three years. In the dying weeks of 2014 he toured the US with The Death of the West Mk III tour, followed by his Giddy Carousel tour of Europe in December. I first met Douglas in 2002 after posting him a copy of one of my Isomer albums in appreciation of his work. A couple of months later he invited me…

Full response to Questions for interview/feature with Creative Loafing, Atlanta​. 24.X.14. Hello Douglas, 1. First, can you please tell me about the material you will be playing when you come to Atlanta? Is it a comprehensive Death In June setlist, or will it stick to a particular era of your songwriting? Will you play any new or unreleased songs? It stretches from the beginning to the present ; Heaven Street thru to Peaceful Snow/The Snow Bunker Tapes. There are no complete new or unreleased songs so they won’t be played. I…

It’s been a while since the “Peaceful Snow” LP came out. Are you going to release a new record in the foreseeable future? What is it going to be like? There are no new recordings at present. Since the release of Peaceful Snow in 2010 and its brother album The Snow Bunker Tapes earlier this year my main thoughts have been performing this material throughout the World. The artistic Muse has not descended for a brand new Death In June album and I’ m quite comfortable with that. There’s always…

INTERVIEW WITH DOUGLAS P./DEATH IN JUNE (Aldo Chimenti for Rockerilla) 1. The new album “The Rule Of Thirds” comes after 3 years from “Alarm Agents” and it marks a change in your songwriting, most acoustic psych-folk orientated between Velvet Underground and Syd Barrett. Is it a new beginning, a new feeling? In truth, I feel it’s the first really brand new Death In June album since ‘All Pigs Must Die’ in 2001. I didn’t write any of the lyrics to ‘Alarm Agents’ as I left that hard task up to…