This is the second part of a lengthy piece I wrote for Uncut earlier this summer. The first part is here.

The new issue of Uncut is out sometime this week, and among many other things it contains an interview I did a few weeks back with Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings in Nashville.

A revealing piece from Duluth, February 2011

I’m sure most of you have heard the grim news about Mark Linkous in the past few days. I can’t really add much to the memorials that have accumulated about him and his music; on the odd occasion when I met him – all well over a decade ago now – he always came across as a gentle and reserved man, who told harrowing personal stories but at the same time didn’t seem to give that much away about what he was actually like. I have, though, dug out this Sparklehorse piece I wrote for NME in 1996. As is so often the way of these things, it’s hard not to see an awful poignancy in his last couple of quotes.

Guy Garvey's songwriting partner speaks to Uncut about the reissue Asleep In The Back

The singer answers this month's 'Audience With' mailbag...

Frank and funny, Sheffield songwriter talks pop, drugs and reincarnation

Josh Homme said 'You’ve got to come to the desert!'

I interviewed Michael Mann for the current issue of UNCUT, ahead of the release of Public Enemies. Call it reader service, but I thought those of you who're interested in such things might like a chance to read the full transcript (it's about 3,200 words, of which we only ran 1,000 in the issue). Anyway, here it is. Hope you enjoy.

Having recently resurrected seminal album Foxbase Alpha for a handful of live shows, St Etienne are getting ready for a short festival tour, including Latitude 2009. Here, singer Sarah Cracknell tells Uncut about the trials of bringing children to festivals, the memory flashbacks playing older material and what we can expect from their Uncut Arena show...