Mike Stroud and Nick Thorburn from the Creem are here to discuss their new album A Taste of Cherry, why Los Angeles may in fact be hell, standard items available at most Connecticut shopping complexes, their social and working history, Mike’s gifts as a producer of instrumentals and how that inspired Nick to write clever lyrics and vocal melodies very quickly, expressing joy and humour in your art during very dark times, when Evan Gordon from Islands met and spoke with Paul McCartney, when Mike spoke with Paul McCartney and Jeff Lynne, Nick’s new comic book Pear Shape, the influence that comic artist Richard McGuire has had on Nick’s own comic pursuits, a new record by Mike’s band Kunzite, why this band is called the Creem, playing shows, other future plans, and much more.
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