It was a pretty average Spring in London by all accounts, when I stayed with Guatemalan Luis Barrueto at his Holloway flat in late-April, 2015. For the few days I was there we did all the things 20-somethings should do while studying abroad; stayed up late, partied, saw the sights and attended street festivals. But for all my hedonistic London encounters, something much more important was going on for Luis.
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Q&A | Ryan McPhun, on his good band the Ruby Suns
Always trust a man in a jumpsuit. Ryan McPhun knows how to wear one well, and whilst performing musical acrobatics as a one-man act no less. In his band the Ruby Suns’ natural state he’s accompanied by two New Zealand padres, however since relocating to Oslo in pursuit of parenthood the Californian Kiwi has needed to think laterally. And employ all his limbs, to pull off the live version of his multi-layered productions in a solo capacity. He chats to Sarah about his latest album Sprite Fountain, impolite pram gangs, and the unsettling contradiction between Norway’s centre-far right politics and its ‘egalitarian’ social policy.
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