Masami Shiraishi, curator
Colin Liddell
3/25/2015 03:52:00 pm
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For Art Fair Tokyo 2015, I interviewed the event's chairman, Masami Shiraishi. The interview was carried out by email a couple of...
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Antenna, artists
Colin Liddell
1/21/2015 03:54:00 pm
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In early 2011, I was preparing an article on Roppongi Art Night. This was later cancelled because the Great Eastern Japan Earthq...
Wednesday, 31 December 2014
Akaji Maro, dancer
Colin Liddell
12/31/2014 01:31:00 am
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Akaji Maro is a Butoh dancer and the leader of the Dai Rakuda Kan (Great Camel Battleship) dance troupe. He is also a well-known movie...
Saturday, 26 July 2014
Mike Peters, musician
Colin Liddell
7/26/2014 06:57:00 am
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In July 2014, I did a "phoner" (or "skyper") with Mike Peters, the singer and main songwriter of 1980s rock band T...
Sunday, 1 June 2014
Maceo Parker, musician
Colin Liddell
6/01/2014 01:39:00 am
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In February 2014, I did an email interview with Maceo Parker, a famous funk musician, both as a sideman to James Brown and in his own ri...
Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Hiroshi Ikushima, painter
Colin Liddell
4/15/2014 05:05:00 pm
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"Donau Bar" by Hiroshi Ikushima Sometimes interviewing can be very precise and specific, but other times you just throw out...
Friday, 7 March 2014
Mark Karpeles & Gonzague Gay-Bouchery, bitcoin "entrepreneurs"
Colin Liddell
3/07/2014 12:37:00 am
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Gay-Bouchery and Karpeles In early 2013, the “virtual currency” or “crypto commodity” bitcoin was starting to attract a lot of attenti...
Monday, 3 February 2014
James May, television presenter
Colin Liddell
2/03/2014 12:50:00 am
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Back in the Summer of 2008 we were motoring across Scotland, driving at a good speed through some moorland in Perthshire, when I spott...
Monday, 16 December 2013
Sheryl Crow, musician
Colin Liddell
12/16/2013 11:17:00 am
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I interviewed Sheryl Crow at the inaugural MTV Japan Awards 2002 in the press conference room. Although there were around 30 members o...
Hajime Yatsuka (八束はじめ), architect
Colin Liddell
12/16/2013 06:41:00 am
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Back in 2011, the Mori Art Museum held a big exhibition on the Metabolist Movement, perhaps the most interesting school of Japanese arc...
Tuesday, 5 November 2013
Hiroshi Sugimoto, photographic artist
Colin Liddell
11/05/2013 02:01:00 am
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In 2012, I had a face-to-face interview with Hiroshi Sugimoto in Tokyo, Sugimoto is a well-known photographic artist. One of his pictur...
Monday, 4 November 2013
Tomohiko Yamanashi, architect
Colin Liddell
11/04/2013 06:44:00 am
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On the 17th of February, 2012, I went to the offices of Nikken Sekkei, a major architectural firm, in downtown Tokyo to interview Tomoh...
Saturday, 4 May 2013
Noppon Brothers, mascots
Colin Liddell
5/04/2013 09:06:00 am
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The Noppon Brothers are the mascots of Tokyo's landmark Tokyo Tower. I interviewed them in November 2006 by email. My questions wer...
John Bean, politician
Colin Liddell
5/04/2013 08:33:00 am
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In 2012, over a period of several weeks, I interviewed veteran British nationalist John Bean by email. Mr. Bean, who was aged 85 at the...
Sunday, 10 February 2013
Herbie Hancock, musician
Colin Liddell
2/10/2013 09:31:00 am
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I interviewed Herbie Hancock by telephone on the 19th of July, 2007. We spoke for around half an hour about his forthcoming Quartet tour...
Thursday, 12 July 2012
Ami Clarke, conceptual artist
Colin Liddell
7/12/2012 04:04:00 pm
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In early 2012, I interviewed the artist Ami Clarke about her show at The Container in Tokyo. The Container is literally that, a shippi...
Monday, 30 April 2012
Kieran Webster [The View]
Colin Liddell
4/30/2012 06:12:00 am
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I spoke to Kieren Webster, the bassist from the View on the 12th of April, 2007. The interview was a little difficult because the line wa...
Saturday, 14 April 2012
Sousuke Morimoto, painter
Colin Liddell
4/14/2012 12:37:00 pm
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Sometimes interviewing can be very precise and specific, but other times you just throw out questions and hope for a good response. In...
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Gianluca Iannone, politician
Colin Liddell
3/21/2012 07:38:00 am
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Gianluca Iannone is the founder and leader of CasaPound, an Italian political movement that takes its name from the American poet and ...
Friday, 13 January 2012
Glenn Tipton [Judas Priest]
Colin Liddell
1/13/2012 05:04:00 pm
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Back in 2001, I interviewed legendary Judas Priest axeman Glenn Tipton about a forthcoming trip to Japan. The interview was by telephon...
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