DiS meets Johnny Marr: "Art and entertainment don't need to be mutually exclusive" / In Depth // Drowned In Sound
Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course, but like Johnny Marr, I’m from Manchester. It’s a fact that doesn’t crop up in our conversation until after we’ve spent the best part of forty-five minutes running through the questions I’d prepared; he isn’t obliged to still be on the line, at this point, but my accent had obviously piqued his interest. The ensuing discussion of music and the north sees him send me off with a pretty hefty reading list, too. In truth, consciously or otherwise, I hadn’t let on to Marr that we share a hometown because, given the amount of in...