Rob Fitzpatrick
Rob Fitzpatrick spent between 1998 and 2012 writing about music, television, books and films for The Word, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, NME, Melody Maker, Mixmag and many more. He even wrote something for Private Eye once or twice. Among his most fondly recalled moments include eating home made smoked salmon sandwiches at Shirley Collins' house, being called on his mobile by Usher's mother while in a pub in Camberwell, spending an interview talking about childcare and night feeds while bouncing Beck's baby on his knee in an LA carpark, nearly being murdered by glue sniffers while in Istanbul with ambient-popsters Bent, stroking Barry Gibb's knee in a recording studio in Miami, nosing around Bootsy Collins’ memorabilia-stuffed basement and gossiping with Robert Smith at the side of a festival stage while New Order played. He still bitterly regrets not getting drunk with Lemmy when he had the chance. He lives in South West London with his food writer wife. According to the internet he invented the expression “mashup”, but that seems unlikely, even to him.
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Profile and Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Word, November 2003
David Beckham's favourite act powers ever onward with his manager-mother, his zero-carb diets, and his own personal jeweller. But what drives Usher's insomniac craving for ...
Status Quo: Whatever You Want (To Eat): Having Lunch With Status Quo
Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Word, December 2006
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Review by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Guardian, 7 July 2007
Pick of the week ...
John Martyn: A Golden Age: John Martyn
Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Word, July 2008
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Staff Benda Bilili: Music from diversity
Profile and Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Sunday Times, 22 February 2009
The band is formed of homeless paraplegics and polio victims from Kinshasa, Congo, and travel in customised wheelchairs ...
Bob Marley & the Wailers: Island Records turns 50
Retrospective and Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Times, 3 May 2009
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Maybe Father Really Does Know Best
Comment by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Sunday Times, 2 August 2009
Children forming bands with their parents is wrong — so why does it work so well, asks Rob Fitzpatrick ...
Steve Goodman keeps on pioneering
Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Sunday Times, 11 October 2009
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Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Sunday Times, 3 January 2010
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Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, Daily Telegraph, 17 February 2010
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Keane: Somewhere only Keane knows
Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Sunday Times, 23 April 2010
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Jack Johnson: Reluctant Superstar
Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Sunday Times, 23 May 2010
THERE'S A TRACK on the new Jack Johnson album with a chorus that reveals, "I can tell you anything but the truth…" an admission that ...
The Chemical Brothers: Chemical Brothers: The sound of grown ups at play
Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Sunday Times, 20 June 2010
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Hurts: No gain without the pain
Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Sunday Times, 5 September 2010
The Mancunian duo Hurts are taking on vacuous pop with heart-on-sleeve honesty. And sharp clobber ...
Elton John: The Man Who Loved Records
Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Word, March 2011
No downloads for Sir Elton John, thank you. No miming either. And don't get him started on Simon Cowell. Rob Fitzpatrick meets a passionate purist ...
Primal Scream: Carry on Screaming
Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Sunday Times, 6 March 2011
Primal Scream’s classic Screamadelica album is 20 this year. They talk about the agonies, the ecstasy, and doing the school run to PiL ...
New Order: Joyless divisions: The end of New Order
Report and Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Guardian, 14 July 2011
Brought together to promote a new best-of compilation, Peter Hook and his bandmates can barely bring themselves to speak to each other. They reveal where ...
Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Word, April 2012
"Music is like blood or air," Damon Albarn believes. "It's part of us. We open up to its invisible flow. My life is immersed in ...
Ray Davies, The Kinks: The dramatic ups and downs of Ray Davies
Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Word, July 2012
RAY DAVIES is not an easy man to pin down. Our interview is planned for 5pm at a café in Highgate. No, hang on; it's ...
Anna Meredith: Classical with a twist
Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Sunday Times, 4 November 2012
How did the composer Anna Meredith go from the Last Night of the Proms to walloping dubstep? ...
Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Sunday Times, 27 October 2013
The 16-year-old Ella Yelich-O'Connor looks like the most remarkable songwriter of her generation ...
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