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Severed Heads Interviews

Who's Who

Tom Ellard is the mainstay of Severed Heads. The official Web site is sevcom.com.

Garry Bradbury was an active member of Severed Heads in the early '80s but now works solo and as part of the duo Size.

Stephen Jones worked on the video side of Severed Heads for a number of years. He is active in technology and philosophy.

Tim Gruchy was a member of the Australian band Vision Four 5.

The late Robert Racic remixed many Severed Heads releases.

Year Source Interviewee Interview available as...

1982

The Australian, 2nd March.

Tom Ellard

Interview (JPEG graphic file, 552 kB).

1983

Daily Telegraph (New South Wales),
July.

Tom Ellard

Interview (JPEG graphic file, 108 kB).

1983

On the Street magazine,
issue 152, 21st September.

Tom Ellard

Interview (JPEG graphic file, 288 kB).

1983

Sounds,
15th October.

Tom Ellard

Interview (JPEG graphic file, 192 kB).

1984

New Musical Express, March.

Tom Ellard

Interview (JPEG graphic file, 152 kB).

1984

Melody Maker, March.

Tom Ellard

Interview (JPEG graphic file, 292 kB).

1984

RAM magazine, 12th October.

Tom Ellard

Interview (JPEG graphic file, 876 kB).

1985

Electronic Soundmaker & Computer Music magazine, June.

Tom Ellard

Interview in two parts:-

  • Part 1 (JPEG graphic file, 318 kB)
  • Part 2 (JPEG graphic file, 295 kB)

1985

The Sydney Morning Herald (?), October.

Tom Ellard

Interview (JPEG graphic file, 84 kB).

1986?

Countdown magazine.

Tom Ellard

Interview (JPEG graphic file, 48 kB).

1987

An Australian newspaper.

Robert Racic

Interview (GIF file, 136 kB).

1987

RAM magazine.

Tom Ellard

Interview (GIF graphic file, 724 kB).

1987

Stiletto magazine, November.

Tom Ellard

Interview (GIF graphic file, 284 kB).

1988

Sonics magazine.

Tom Ellard

Interview (PDF file, 5.8 MB).

1989

On the Street magazine.

Tom Ellard

Interview (JPEG graphic file, 552 kB).

1989

A Perth newspaper.

Tom Ellard

Interview (GIF graphic file, 152 kB).

1989

Keyboard magazine, May

Stephen Jones
and Tom Ellard

Interview (JPEG graphic file, 92 kB).

1989

Sydney Morning Herald, 8th November

Tom Ellard

Interview (JPEG graphic file, 212 kB).

1990

St. Petersburg Times, Florida, USA, 26th January

Tom Ellard

Interview (JPEG graphic file, 992 kB).

1990?

Daily Mirror, Australia (headline + photo only)

Tom Ellard

Silly photo (JPEG graphic file, 100 kB).

1991

Rave magazine.

Tom Ellard

Interview (GIF graphic file, 152 kB).

1991

X9 magazine issue 9, Winter. Reproduced by permission of the interviewer, Al Crawford

Tom Ellard

Interview in 4 parts:-

  • Part 1 (includes JPEG graphic file, 101 kB)
  • Part 2 (includes JPEG graphic file, 120 kB)
  • Part 3 (includes JPEG graphic file, 124 kB)
  • An update to some of the projects discussed in the interview, by Tom Ellard, February 2001.

1991

Drum Media, 19th November

Tom Ellard

Interview (GIF graphic file, 216 kB).

1992

Party Fears fanzine

Tom Ellard

Interview in 2 parts:-

  1. Part 1 (GIF graphic file, 292 kB)
  2. Part 2 (GIF graphic file, 308 kB)

1992

Vertigo, April

Tom Ellard

Interview (GIF graphic file, 200 kB).

1994

Counterpoint , Radio Falmer, January.

Tom Ellard

See list of MP3 audio files.

1994

On the Street magazine.

Tom Ellard

Interview (JPEG graphic file, 200 kB).

1994

Interview conducted March 1994 by Amey Mazurek. Published here only by permission of the interviewer.

Garry Bradbury
and Tom Ellard

Interview in 4 parts:-

1994

Interview conducted March 1994 by Amey Mazurek. Published here only by permission of the interviewer.

Stephen Jones
and Tom Ellard

Interview.

1994

Interview conducted March 1994 by Amey Mazurek. Published here for the first time anywhere by permission of the interviewer.

Stephen Jones
and Tim Gruchy

Interview.

1996

Britpack magazine.

Tom Ellard

Interview (text file).

1997

Sydney Morning Herald.

Tom Ellard

Interview (JPEG file, 152 kB).

1997

Ausmusic magazine.

Tom Ellard

Interview (JPEG file, 148 kB).

1999

Rave magazine.

Tom Ellard

Interview (GIF graphic file, 168 kB).

1999

Revolver magazine, 23rd August.

Tom Ellard

Interview (JPEG file, 236 kB).

2004

Encore magazine

Tom Ellard

Interview (JPEG graphic file, 348 kB).

Interviews hosted elsewhere on the Web

Tom Ellard Keeps His Severed Heads Under Gail Succubus

An interview with Tom Ellard, 2006. Also available elsewhere (e.g. here and here).

Sounds Like Techno

Includes a short clip of Garry Bradbury in 2003 on the subject of techno.

Edge of the Wedge

A videoed interview originally broadcast on ABC Australia in 1986.

Inteview Severed Heads

An interview with the magazine Dark Entries, 2005.

FL Studio Power Users

An interview with the FL Studio software site, 2005.

Mainstream is for frogs, says ARIA winner

A brief interview with The Sydney Morning Herald , 2005.

Soundtrack's "reality Muzak"

A brief interview with The Age, 2005.

Severed Heads Vs The Illustrated Family Doctor

March 2005 interview from ABC in Australia, in streaming audio.

Severed Heads: Animating the family doctor

An interview by inthemix.com.au.

Technophilia

An interview with Tom Ellard from 1994.

Inside the Robot Peepshow

An interview with Tom Ellard, 2004.

Tom Ellard interviewed by Joe Radio

Interview conducted November 1988.

Interview from Godsend

An interview with Tom Ellard from 1990.

Interview with Tom Ellard

From January 2007.

Pixelsurgon interview

Interview from 2002.

Chaos Control: Severed Heads

An interview from 1996. Strangely, it's reproduced elsewhere on the same site with different graphics.


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