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Published in British GQ, November 2015.

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Kevin EG Perry is a writer for The Independent.

His work has also appeared in The Guardian, British GQ, NME and Empire.

He was shortlisted for The Guardian’s International Development Journalism Award in 2009.

He can be contacted at kevinegperry[at]gmail.com

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A$AP Rocky
Above & Beyond
Ady Suleiman
Africa Express
Air
Alaska Reid
Alt-J
Andreya Triana
Animal Collective
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner
Auntie Flo
Azealia Banks
Baaba Maal
Bad Breeding
Baloji
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Beach House
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Bez
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Carly Rae Jepsen
Catfish & The Bottlemen
Chance The Rapper
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Chet Faker
Chic's Nile Rodgers
Chiddy Bang
Chuck Leavell
Chvrches
Cigarettes After Sex
CocoRosie
Congotronics vs Rockers
Craig David
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Daniel Johnston
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Davido
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Ed Harcourt
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Fat White Family
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Femi & Made Kuti
Flying Lotus
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Gabrielle Aplin
Gabriels
Gallant
Garbage's Shirley Manson
Gary Numan
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Graham Nash
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Hinds
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Hyena
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Iggy Pop & Josh Homme
Jackson Browne
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James Bay
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Katy B
Kavinsky
Kim Deal
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Kiss's Gene Simmons
Klaxons
Konono No.1
Krzysztof Penderecki
Kwabs
Lavender Country
LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy
Lee 'Scratch' Perry
Lenny Kravitz
Leon Hendrix
Leonard Cohen
Liam Fender
Little Steven
Loudon Wainwright III
Lusts
Mac DeMarco
Machine Gun Kelly
Major Lazer
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Mark Lanegan
Matt Farley
Måneskin
MC5's Michael Davis
Metallica
MIA
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Moodoïd
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Mumford & Sons
Nas
National Wake
Nick Valensi
No Doubt's Gwen Stefani
Nothing But Thieves
Nova Twins
Oasis
Omar Rodríguez-López
Omar Souleyman
One Direction
Ozzy Osbourne
Palma Violets
Paris Jackson
Paris Texas
Paul Oakenfold
Paul Weller
Pavement's Stephen Malkmus
Perfume Genius
Petite Meller
Pharrell
Philip Glass
Plan B
Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie
Public Access TV
Public Enemy's Chuck D
Pulp
Pussy Riot
Queens of The Stone Age’s Josh Homme
Rag'n'Bone Man
Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello
Rat Boy
Ratking
Rita Ora
Rita Wilson
Rosie Lowe
Route 94
Rudimental
Run The Jewels
Ryan Adams
Saint Jhn
Savages
Sean Paul
Shame
Shamir
Sheryl Crow
Shura
Sister Nancy
Slaves
Sleaford Mods
Sly & Robbie
Snoop Dogg
Songhoy Blues
Soulwax/2manyDJs
Spector
Spiritualized
Staff Benda Bilili
Stephen Stills
Stereophonics
Suede
System of a Down’s Serj Tankian
Tame Impala
Tanya Tagaq
Tears for Fears
Tegan & Sara
The Antlers
The Band's Robbie Robertson
The Cambodian Space Project
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The Cult's Ian Astbury
The Districts
The Fall's Mark E Smith
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The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne
The Garden
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The Hu
The Killers' Brandon Flowers
The Kills
The Kinks’ Dave Davies
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The Magic Gang
The Pogues' Shane MacGowan
The Postal Service
The Staves
The Vaccines
The War On Drugs
The Weeks
The Wytches
Tink
Together Pangea
Tom Jones
Toots and the Maytals
Tory Lanez
Tribes
Troye Sivan
TV On The Radio
Twenty One Pilots
Twin Atlantic
Victoria Monét
Viet Cong
Warren G
Weezer
Whitesnake's David Coverdale
Wiley
Wolf Alice
Wolfmother
Young Fathers
Yung Lean

Writing

Andrew Motion on Philip Larkin
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Benjamin Zephaniah
BR Myers on Kim Jong -un
Bruce Robinson
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Carl Hiaasen
Chuck Palahniuk
David Amram on Jack Kerouac
Don DeLillo
Don Winslow
Geoff Dyer
George RR Martin
George Saunders
Graham Johnson
Gregory David Roberts
Ian McEwan
Irvine Welsh
James Ellroy
James Patterson
John Grisham
John Niven
Joseph Stiglitz
Kevin Powers
Kim Barker
Kim Sherwood
Laurie Woolever on Anthony Bourdain
Louis de Bernières
Michael Pollan
Ned Beauman
Nick Kent
Nikolaos van Dam on Syria
Orhan Pamuk
Pamela Des Barres
Paul Scanlon on Hunter Thompson
Richard Milward
Stanley Booth on The Rolling Stones
Stella Feehily
Susan Orlean
Tarun Tejpal
Thurston Moore on William Burroughs
Tim Butcher on Blood River
Timothy Denevi
Tom Feiling on the cocaine wars
Valeria Luiselli

Film

Adam Driver
Adam Sandler & Idina Menzel
Alex Winter
Alexander Skarsgård
Allison Williams
Angela Lansbury
Ariana Greenblatt
Ben Drew (Plan B)
Ben Mendelsohn
Bill Murray
Billy Porter
Caleb Landry Jones
Charlie Brooker
Chris Kelly & Sarah Schneider
Crystal Moselle on The Wolfpack
Cyril Tuschi on Khodorkovsky
Daniel Radcliffe
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Ewan McGregor
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George Amponsah on The Hard Stop
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John Waters
Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Judd Apatow
Julien Temple
Justin Lin
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Kiefer Sutherland
LaKeith Stanfield
Larry Charles
Lisa Rinna
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Mark Hamill
Melissa McCarthy
Mia Goth
Michel Gondry
Nick Broomfield
Nick Cave & John Hillcoat
Nick Kroll
Nicolas Cage
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
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Noah Baumbach
Oliver Stone
Pamela Adlon
Paul Schrader
Pedro Pascal
Penelope Spheeris
Peter Berg
Phillip Rodriguez
Ralph Bakshi
Reinaldo Marcus Green
Rob McElhenney
Roger Moore
Ruby Rose
Russell Crowe & Shane Black
Sam Rockwell
Samuel L Jackson
Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright
Sung Kang
Taylor Kitsch & Peter Berg
Terry Notary
Ti West
Tom Hiddleston
Vin Diesel
Vote Afghanistan!
Wim Wenders
Yvonne Strahovski

Space, Art &c.

Ai Weiwei
Buzz Aldrin
Chris Hadfield
Christian Louboutin
David Merlini
Dita Von Teese
Eric Cantona
Frank Dobson MP
Gerald Scarfe
Jamie Hewlett
John Lurie
John McDonnell
Kelly Carlin
Mark Thomas
Neil Farber
Professor David Nutt
Ralph Steadman
Ron Finley
Russell Brand
Steve-O
Stewart Lee

Idle Chatter

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Fleeting Images

Was blown away by @mdou_moctar's urgent, incendiary album 'Afrique Victime' a few years ago, so it was a pleasure and privilege to sit down with the desert blues prodigy and his band in Silver Lake to talk about building his first guitar out of old bike parts, finding hope amid the ongoing political strife in Niger and his ferocious new record 'Funeral for Justice'. In this month's @uncut_magazine

Had great fun talking to Jon Bon Jovi, the man with the million dollar smile, about staying clean through the blizzard of Eighties hair metal, being mentored by the Boss, writing "Livin' on a Prayer" and not realising its magic, the secret to his 35-year marriage and the life lesson he learned from his old pal Jimmy Buffett. In today's @the.independent

Last night at the Jimmy Buffett tribute show: Woody Harrelson joked about smoking a joint with him on the roof of the Vatican, Harrison Ford reminisced about being inspired to get his ear pierced, Jane Fonda claimed it was actually *her* who smoked a joint with him at the Vatican, Brandi Carlile made "Come Monday" swoon, Mac McAnally (and everyone else) roared "Cheeseburger in Paradise", Jackson Browne sang "He Went To Paris" (Dylan's fave), Snoop did "Gin and Juice" with the Coral Reefer Band, Pitbull and Jon Bon Jovi teamed up(!) for a song called "Thank God and Jimmy Buffett"(!!), Sheryl Crow had fun with "Fins", The Eagles were The Eagles, Paul McCartney got emotional singing "Let It Be", as he had at Jimmy's bedside, and then reappeared with a giant margarita for the grand Last Waltz finale sing-along of "Margaritaville". And Don Johnson, through tears, read this from Jimmy's autobiography:

Atomic Rex

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