I’ve known David for more than twenty years, when we co-released the Tidal/Acabah Rot split 12" in 2002. Out of sight, out of eyes, so it was about time to catch up on what’s been going on in the meantime, and David, a great DIY idealist who has been doing his thing for more than 30 years now, has a lot to talk about:
- getting bullied by Oasis’ management
- touring Europe and sharing a record with Hot Water Music with his band Rydell
- Rydell’s bad luck having to cancel their US tour because it was scheduled to start two days after 9/11 happened
- a strange encounter with Soprano-style mafiosi in Italy
- being blown away by a Fugazi show in a townhouse on the English coast
- how he managed to stick around in the punk and hardcore world for more than three decades
- coming up on 340 releases now on his label Engineer Records
- writing and publishing books for Earth Island Books, born from his archival and collector ideas
www.engineerrecords.com
www.earthislandbooks.com
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