Arthur

Todd Phillips’ 2019 film Joker grossed over $1 billion and landed its star, Joaquin Phoenix, an Oscar for Best Actor. Those are the kind of accolades movie studios dream of, so there was lots of talk about a potential sequel. But was Joker really a movie that needed a sequel? Wouldn’t that go against its whole…Read more... Todd Phillips’ 2019 film Joker grossed over $1 billion and landed its star, Joaquin Phoenix, an Oscar for Best Actor. Those are the kind of accolades movie studios dream of, so there was lots of talk…

John Rocca, vocals, percussionWe were a DIY band who had a jazz-funk hit with Southern Freeez, but we broke up because I kept having arguments with the bass-player. When we got back together a year later, we decided to get a producer to sort us out. Top of the list was Arthur Baker, who was making all these great dance records in New York. We persuaded indie label Beggars Banquet to get us flights and put us up in a grubby hotel in Manhattan. We just turned up at Arthur’s place – a bunch of scruffy, idealistic kids who’d…

Florence ShawVocalist of south London post-punk band Dry CleaningWhat have you got lined up this summer?So many things. June alone is fairly mad. We’re supporting the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Brixton Academy, then playing Primavera in Barcelona. We’re playing Grace Jones’s Meltdown at the Southbank. And of course Glastonbury. It’s hard to quantify just how surreal that is. I used to go a lot as a teenager and my brain’s a little fried that we’re playing on the Park Stage.Do you have much festival-playing experience despite…