Ian Astbury is so much funnier than we imagined. The Cult, his mighty metal-crunching band with guitarist Billy Duffy, has just released Choice Of Weapon (Cooking Vinyl), the newest and best Cult album since 1994’s The Cult. In our Q&A with him, Astbury takes down those who make themselves authoritarian without merit—music journalists, politicians—in a fashion similar to his highly personal lyrical outlook on Weapon. He is guest editing magnetmagazinecom all week with the same candor.
Astbury: My favorite film. I love his films, especially those that star and feature Toshiro Mifune, my favorite actor. As a director, Kurosawa was the alpha and the omega. Without him, Lucas, Copolla and Spielberg wouldn’t be here, period.
Video after the jump.
3 replies on “From The Desk Of The Cult’s Ian Astbury: “Seven Samurai””
What about Federico Fellini?
There is a connection between an artist and his audience, there is therefore an connection of his audience to his influences.
I had intended an interjection, please excuse the “an”, should read “a”-I was too quick to post.