THE PORTABLE INFINITE interviews: with Ian Svenonius, Anton Newcombe, Jack Skelley and more.

BRAND NEW INTERVIEWS 2022-2023

Ever since Newcombe founded BJM, numerous band members have joined him on his sonic escapades, but he has remained the sole constant, the creative mastermind at the center of one of music’s most fascinating bands. Helping Newcombe usher BJM into this thrilling new phase when recording Fire Doesn’t Grow On Trees in the studio were Ricky Maymi (guitars), Ryan Carlson Van Kriedt (keyboards), Hakon Adalsteinsson (guitar), Hallberg Daði Hallbergsson (bass), Uri Rennert (drums) and Sara Neidorf (drums). 

 

To help bring these new songs to life in the fullest on tour, Newcombe will be accompanied by:

 

Ricky Maymi (guitar)

Hakon Adalsteinsson (guitar)

Ryan Carlson Van Kriedt (keyboards)

Uri Rennert (drums)

Collin Hegna (bass)

Joel Gion (tambourine)

IAN F. SVENONIUS is the author of the underground best sellers Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘n’ Roll Group,The Psychic Soviet, and Censorship Now!! He was also the host of VBS.tv’s Soft Focus, where he interviewed Mark E. Smith, Genesis P. Orridge, Chan Marshall, Ian MacKaye, and others. As a musician he has created more than twenty albums and countless singles in various rock and roll combos (Escape-ism, Chain & the Gang, The Make-Up, The Nation of Ulysses, etc.). He lives in Los Angeles, CA. Against the Written Word is his latest work.

Part one was so great and epic, we had to do a part two:

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