Scott Interviews
In 2017, Jarvis Cocker conducted two interviews with Scott Walker for his BBC Radio 6 Music show, Jarvis Cocker’s Sunday Service. Listen to both interviews here.
Speaking to Tom Doyle for Sound on Sound Magazine in 2010, Scott Walker and co-producer Peter Walsh discuss their decades-long collaboration in detail.
Walker’s notes on his 2012 online film season for Curzon On Demand, and a 2007 interview with The Independent about his favourite films.
Interviews about Scott
Walker picks his favourite music on Fontana boss' David Bates XFM show, and Bates on signing Walker and releasing Tilt
In conversation with Stephen Kijak, Sharp discusses signing Walker to 4AD before his 2006 album, The Drift, and reflects on Walker’s music, broader life and work.
4AD's A&R boss on bringing Walker into the world of Kim Deal, Beirut and Bon Iver, and Walker's legacy at the label
Artangel Co-Director Michael Morris discusses his work with Scott Walker, including The Margate Exodus and Drifting and Tilting, with Stephen Kijak.
Singer-songwriter Richard Hawley reflects on his friendship with Scott and how he inherited Walker’s worn Telecaster guitar, which he repaired and used on his 2024 album, In This City They Call You Love.
Working with Scott
On the 4AD Forages podcast, Peter Walsh and Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’Malley speak about Soused, a collaborative album between Scott Walker and Sunn O))).
Speaking to Peter Walsh, trumpeter Mark Isham on working with Walker in 1984, sampling, looping and synthesisers, and Walker’s emotional storytelling.
All you had to do was plug John in and he sounded incredible, producing a deep, rich tone and the kind of precision playing that made recording effortless
Pedal steel player BJ Cole recalls working with Walker on his country-inspired 1970s albums Stretch and We Had It All, and the Walker Brothers’ No Regrets.
Walker’s musical director Mark Warman speaks to percussionist Alasdair Malloy about Walker’s meticulous preparations, performing Walker’s music live, and punching pork,
The composer, bandleader and trumpeter speaks to producer Peter Walsh about Walker’s Royal Opera House commission, Duet For One Voice, and their work together on Bish Bosch and Soused.
After working on Tricky’s Maxinquaye, guitarist James Stevenson worked on Scott Walker’s Tilt, The Drift and Bish Bosch. He discusses Walker’s approach to sound, tuning Fender basses in semitones, and more with producer Peter Walsh.
Producer Peter Walsh in conversation with guitarist Hugh Burns, performer on Jack Bruce’s How’s Tricks album, Gerry Rafferty’s Baker Street and George Michael’s Careless Whisper, on working with Walker from 1995, and discovering his unique approach to the studio.
Gascoigne remembers Walker's curious ear, and love of "the contrast of opposites" on Climate Of Hunter, Tilt and The Drift
Walker’s musical director Mark Warman talks to Michael Laird about playing the kudu, the antelope horn used as a shofar in Jewish ritual ceremonies, on SDSS1416+13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter).
Working on Drifting and Tilting and the score for The Childhood of a Leader, cellist Frank Schaefer remembers working with Scott Walker, with musical director Mark Warman.
Leading the orchestra on the scores for Childhood of A Leader and Vox Lux, and working on Drift and Bish Bosch, Paul Willey speaks to Mark Warman about Walker’s unique style and vision.
A performer on Tilt, And Who Shall Go to the Ball? And What Shall Go to the Ball? and Soused, flautist and saxophonist Andy Findon talks to musical director Mark Warman about improvisation, and Walker’s unique working practices.
Saxophonist Pete Long speaks to Mark Warman about Walker’s love of lower-hertz sounds and music as a zone that you enter.
Events
The setlist from Father John Misty, Jules Buckley and the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s concert at London’s Barbican in 2023, featuring material from Scott to Tilt, and an online review from actor Rob Delaney.
The conductor of LA new music ensemble Wild Up on his conversations and 2017 collaboration with Scott Walker.
Programme notes, a Q&A with conductor Jules Buckley, reflections by prom co-coordinator Dick Hovenga, a Behind The Scenes feature by Audio Music International’s Colby Ramsay, and an interview with Jarvis Cocker by Shaun Keaveny for BBC 6 Music.
Details of the world premiere of Walker, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s Bish Bosch: Ambisymphonic at the Sydney Opera House, an immersive sonic re-imagining of his 2012 album.
Programme notes and Walker’s drawings for the production of Drifting and Tilting at London’s Barbican, which presented songs from Tilt and Drift through performers, dancers and puppeteers, plus interviews with Artangel’s Michael Morris, Dot Allison, Damon Albarn, Gavin Friday and others.
The full programme, plus notes, for Walker’s Meltdown at London’s Southbank Centre, including his film programme for the National Film Theatre, and an interview with Time Out’s Ross Fortune.
Dance
Guardian dance critic Judith Mackrell reviews BALLETBOYz’ The Title Is In The Text from 2017, and Scott Walker’s score.
Exploring the world premiere of Duet for One, Aletta Collins’ re-imagining of Cocteau’s monologue One Voice for dancers, with an original score by Scott Walker.
Notes on the music commissioned by Walker for a contemporary dance piece for disabled and non-disabled dance company, CandoCo, plus footage and excerpts of reviews.
Books
The Bella Union boss, Cocteau Twin and son of Walker Brothers arranger Ivor on meeting Walker as a child, co-directing the 2017 Songs of Scott Walker prom, and Walker’s influence on his career.
A personal message from Walker to foreword writer Eimear McBride, details of the book’s standard, limited and deluxe editions, and Walker’s last interview, about Sundog, with Alex Clark.
Releases
Details of Walker’s track, Darkness, interpreting the ninth of ten plagues from the Book of Exodus, as part of Artangel’s The Margate Exodus, and the 2006 album, Plague Songs.
The Most Disarming Sounds: the Julian Cope compilation that revived the work of Scott Walker