Interviews

2002


Splendidezine has a great interview with Steve covering a wide range of topics. Rewireviews.com spoke to Marty about communication, what he was listening to in April 2002. Interesting :) Peter Koppes answered a lot of questions collected by Sue Campbell from Seancers and Wombers. Steve's ability to write lyrics was the main topic in this nice interview with Neal Hunt.

2001



• Steve spoke on the Oz Music Showwith Richard Kingsmill about Dabble, wanting to move to Australia and Qantas engine blowouts. Includes mp3 files of part of the interview.

  1999

  
  
• Tim Powles discusses his current and future projects with Robert Lurie.
• Nazz interviews Peter Koppes about Hologram of Baal, drugs, Richard and much more.

  1998

  
  
• Rolling Stone and Steve discuss recent Church history.
• X-Press and Marty talk about the new album, tour stories and mistakes.
• Steve spoke to myLaunch.com about touring and the new album.
• Zillo magazine and Marty talked about the new album and Seeing Stars.
• James Hebert spoke to Steve about Hologram of Baal and the role Steve's mother played in keeping The Church going.
• Steve in Georgia Straight discussing Tim's joining the band, Hologram of Baal and the Heyday album.
• Marty spoke with Joe Rosenthal about Hologram of Baal - don't know which magazine this came from though.
• Radio station WLIR spoke to Steve and Marty before the Oct 9th show.
• Tim Powles spoke to Cincinatti's City Beat about the tour.
  
• An extensive interview with Tim Powles done during the H.o.Baal tour. Many thanks to Kyle Munson.
• "13" speaks to Marty about a being in The Church
• Peter spoke to Joann Ball of Consumables Online about Hologram of Baal, Church fans and more.
• Marty spoke to Dennis Wollnik about Hologram of Baal and current Church happenings.
• Kevin Keohane sent some questions to the band: Tim and Peter answered.
• Katherine Yeske spoke to Steve about everything that's happening with The Church and his work.
• Before his London performance Steve did an interview with Patricia Howe.
• Steve Kilbey and Darrall Knight chatted during the Irish tour about the new album.
• InDublin Magazine speaks to Marty during the acoustic tour.

  1997

  
  
• Sydney Morning Herald spoke to Steve about the band breaking up and old tensions in the band.
• The JFiles did a show about The Church. I've begun making the best bits available here, including RealAudio samples of interviews and live acoustic songs. Don't miss this !
• Drum Media interviews Steve about the Refo:mation and management of The Church.
• Steve speaks to Anthony Horan about the rumoured breakup of The Church, the Refo:mation and touring.
• A terrific interview with Steve, which takes the form of a rapid-fire Question and Answer session. You'll learn a lot about Steve in this excellent piece, kindly sent in by Mike Fandango.
• Steve speaks to Melbourne's Age newspaper about surrealism and major turning points in his life.

• A new interview with Steve Kilbey has been sent in by Brett Dicks and it covers all the projects he's currently involved with. Thanks Brett !
• Marty spoke to Magazine Groove and had some really ground-shaking things to say ! MATS is being re-released (only in England ?).
• Russell Kilbey spoke to InPress magazine about Turkeyneck Lasso, his new project.

1996



• Drum Media spoke to Steve about the MATS tour.
• The Herald-Sun and Steve have a brief discussion about his work with other bands. Ordinarily I wouldn't have included an interview as short as this one, but its interesting what Steve says about how the public has taken his activities outside The Church. I don't agree at all ! See for yourself....
• Steve talks about commercial success, touring, writing "hit" songs and his opinion of various Church albums.
• Steve and Paul Nassari hold an interesting discussion about MATS, Peter, Richard, drugs and Olde Churche Historie :-)

• The upcoming MATS tour is discussed along with videos and Peter's return in this excellent interview contributed by Anthony Horan. You can hear the whole interview through Real Audio !

• http://www.thei.aust.com have done an interview with Steve Kilbey.
• 3PBS spoke with Steve about Jack Frost, Karmic Hit and his current hopes for new projects
• Snow Job - Steve speaks to Brett Dicks about the newest Jack Frost album.
• A Jack Frost biography and interview can be found at the Beggar's Banquet page.
• Prior to the Snow Job concerts, Steve Kilbey was interviewed by Scott Howlett of XPress Magazine.
• Peter Koppes speaks to Shadow Cabinet in this exclusive interview. Its a long and detailed interview, with Thomas Irvin asking questions asking the questions, some on behalf of the fans on the Seance mailing list. Probably the most revealing interview you're likely to read in a long time ! Great work Thomas, and many thanks to Peter for his time and support.

1995



• Marty and Rave Magazine talk about the '95 acoustic tour and the early days of touring, including Unguarded Moment.
• Steve chats with Michael Wylie about SA's place in the history of The Church and bags Gold Afternoon Fix.
• Steve Steve talks about Arista and Sometime Anywhere

  1994

  
  
• Mae Moore and Steve Kilbey Two short interviews.(1) Phoenix Gazette 14/1/1994 (2) LA Times 26/1/95 by Bill Locey
• Steve & Marty From B-Side Aug/Sep 1994 by Sandra Garcia. Steve & Marty at start of acoustic tour after SA.
• Steve Anthony Horan talks to Steve Kilbey
• Guitar Player MWP and SK talk to Guitar Player. Plenty of technical details.
• Marty's guitars Marty talks about his guitars to Guitar Player
• Swedish radio interview with Steve and Marty during which they also played several songs.
• Radio Acoustic set Katherine Yeske talks with SK and MWP at a radio station after a broadcast
• On The Edge SK & MWP talk about Elvis and "Unsubstantiated"
• Beat Steve on parenthood and Sometime Anywhere
• Boston Chron. Marty talks about the song order on Sometime Anywhere. He's not happy !
• Alternative Press SK & MWP talk about Peter and Sometime Anywhere
• More Marty Marty discusses touring, solo work and Sometime Anywhere
• James Hebert discusses S.A with Steve. Sent in by Mr Hebert himself, v.nice to see a journalist taking an interest :)
• Spirit Magazine talks to Marty about S.A. Our first officially permitted posting of an interview ! Thanks Chris !
• Marty and Steve Sometime Anywhere gets a promo and a brief look at Marty's record collection
• Brett and Marty talk about SA, the new Church lineup and more. Brett is on the Seance list and reachable by e-mail.
• Marty Marty talks about Sometime Anywhere.
• America OnLine Marty and Steve answer questions from America OnLine subscribers
• Steve A short interview with Steve before the acoustic tour
• Steve Kilbey Sydney newspaper by Kathy McCabe. Just after producing an album for Stephen Cummings.
  
  

  1993

  
  
• SA Preview Rolling Stone gets a preview of Sometime Anywhere, and screw up the name of the first Church album ! There's a picture from the article (196K)
• Marty Marty talks about himself and Priest = Aura
• RAGE with Steve Kilbey Steve was guest presenter on the Rage music video show. Which videos are Steve's favourites ? Take a look. He also speaks briefly about the video making process and names his favourite Church video.
  
  

  1992

  
  
• Eves Fanzine printed an interview which was mostly taken from a rare Rykodisc interview with Marty.
• Steve chats to Sound and Image 1992. A little bit of info about his pre-Church days.
• Marty and guitars Marty talks to Guitar Player about his playing style and P=A
• Steve & P=A Steve and Priest=Aura
• SK,MWP,PK and JDD Pulse Apr 1992. The band discuss Priest=Aura.
• SK,MWP,PK and JDD B-Side April 1992 by Sandra Garcia. The band discuss Priest=Aura
• Press Release for Priest=Aura Steve makes you want to run out and buy it all over again !
• The Hard Report finally discovers exactly how the name Priest=Aura came about !
• Spin magazine asks The Church about sadness in their music.
• Music View interviews the band about P=A
  
  

  1991

  
  
• Jack Frost Looks like a pretty definitive interview to me.
• Eden, a fanzine for All About Eve spoke to Marty. This is the second part of an interview and hopefully the first part will be here soon.
  
  

  1990

  
  
• Steve & GAF B-Side Oct 1990 by Sandra Garcia. Steve talks about Gold Afternoon Fix
• Musician talks to the band while touring about *meaning*. This is a good article if you want to know what it all *means* :) It came with a detailed list of the instruments that the band use
• Melody Maker weren't too impressed with The Church, and aren't shy about saying it.
• MTV had GAF as their pick of the month. Here's an interview from their club magazine. They explain psychedelia and Steve reveals how much of an obsession song writing can become.
• GAF The band talks about recording GAF
• GAF again Find out what Marty likes to drink during interviews and what was the first record Steve heard
• More GAF Steve also talks about making solo albums and why lyrics aren't supplied with Church albums
• Sounds magazine spoke to Steve about GAF and their European success while touring in Spain.
  
  

  1989

  
  
• Marty talks at length about philosophical/artistic issues and about the aim of Art Attack
• Contrast magazine speaks to Steve and Marty about the success of Starfish, the upcoming GAF and their solo work. The interview is by Kirk Biglione, who sent his blessings :)
• Peter talks to Susan Peters about From The Well. One of the few interviews exclusively with Peter !
  
  

  1988

  
  
• Musician magazine spoke to the band.
• East Coast Rocker spoke to Steve. The picture on the magazine cover is a colour version of the cover of the "Life Before Starfish" promo album.
• Sounds magazine spoke to Steve and Marty about Starfish and The Church's level of success.
• Creem finds out the connection between Frank Sinatra and Steve Kilbey. There's also a good summary of their dealings with "inept record companies" over the years
• Solo releases are the main topic here. Steve's talked about Earthed and poetry and lyrics, Marty talks about Camus and Peter about Manchild and Myth
• Steve converts an interviewer and describes the grind of touring the Starfish album
• Steve Kilbey Part One "From Ears And Mouth" - After Starfish (1988) during US Tour
• Steve Kilbey Part Two Steve concludes this excellent interview.
• The SNAP program did an interview with Marty as well as the other interview with the whole band.
• The band talk to Music Connection about Starfish, Marty's background, Peter's musical drives and more.
• SK & PK Steve and Peter talk to Rolling Stone about Starfish, drugs and guitars.
• Steve & UnEarthed Steve discusses Unearthed and Starfish with Bucketfull of Brains
• LA Times interviews Steve about working in Los Angeles. Thanks to Rhonda for supplying :-)
• Sum of The Parts This is a transcription of the "Sum of The Parts" promo interview. Everyone has their say ! Thanks to Aiden for the HTML version.
• Slow Crack & Starfish Toby Creswell spoke to Steve just before the release of these albums.
• Rolling Stone & Starfish The Church speak to Rolling Stone about making Starfish. Good interview.

  1987

  
  
• Contrast magazine talks to Steve about Church fans, his solo work and Starfish.

  1986

  
  
• Melody Maker and Steve Kilbey
  Rock Arena and Steve Kilbey Part One and Part Two. These are videos (in Real Video format) of Steve being interview about the Heyday album.
• Dolly magazine talks to Steve about Heyday and how the band spend their spare time and why The Church wore paisley
• Lengthy interview with Steve and Marty about the Heyday album.
  
• Steve and Bucketfull of Brains discuss all the albums up to Heyday, and a whole lot more.

  1985

  
  
• A brief mention of the failure of Remote Luxury to sell in America and the cost of touring.
• Heyday Steve talks about Heyday, doing videos and the clip for Already Yesterday
• Press release for Heyday Info about the album and a look behind the scenes of the Tantalized video. Reveals a link between SA and Heyday...the Tantalized clip has footage that was shot in Mexico during the Day of the Dead festival ! Spooooky !
  
  

  1984

  
  
• Remote Luxury Katherine Tulich speaks to Ploog about RL, Sing Songs and Seance

  1983

  
  
• RAM : Augst 5th 1983 - Stuart Cope dons his detective outfit and tracks down the answers to the Kilbey Case.
• Juke : June 1983 - includes pictures
  
  

  1982

  
  
• RAM Magazine spoke to Steve and created an impression that lasted for years...
• Blurred Crusade - The movie ? Marty spoke to Brett Stavordale
• Steve Kilbey 1/2 Juke June 26 1982. By Michael Delaney. Just after Blurred Crusade. Part 2 is in the works...

  
  
  

  1981

  
  
• Roadrunner (?) had an interview with Steve as the band were beginning to be noticed.
• Juke spoke to Peter and Marty, an interview which reveals a lot of pre-Church information.