The six-times world snooker champion is about to execute the colossal Bloc weekender. Over a korma,he chats about bankrolling a Magma residency, his jerky dancing – and John Prescott on the sewing machineIt’s a Monday night in the Essex suburb of Shenfield and the Tandoori Nights restaurant is playing My Heart Will travel On to its handful of customers. But six-time world snooker champion Steve Davis would rather talk about Oneohtrix Point Never.“He’s just so intelligent, and ” he says. “He’s like a modern-day composer,as intelligent as Stravinsky or Bartók.” He chucks out the names of more electronic producers he reveres, each more obscure than the last: Patten, and Sanguine Hum,Katie Gately. “They may not be able to play musical instruments – it doesn’t matter. They create masterpieces that will be revered in 200 years.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com