Elizabeth Aubrey

Freelance arts and culture journalist/lecturer. My work is regularly found in NME, Evening Standard, The Guardian, Empire, The Quietus, GQ, The Independent, MixMag, Crack and more.

Evening Standard •

Nick Cave: ‘I care what people say – and if they hate my music’

Until recently, Cave rarely gave interviews. In 2017, he vowed “never to do one again” after struggling to talk about grief to a journalist following the death of his 15-year-old son, Arthur. Instead, Cave responded to fan questions (many of which were about loss) via his Red Hand Files website, articulating the debilitating process of grief with unflinching clarity. A live In Conversation series followed and then, during lockdown, he spent 40 hours speaking to journalist Sean O’Hagan for a book…
Flaunt Magazine •

Elle Fanning Cover Interview

It’s a glorious spring day and one of the first where Los Angeles has seen sunshine in a while, after several unusually bleak winter months. Light beams in through tall, glass windows and onto actor, Elle Fanning, who is now back at home after finishing up a long stint in London filming season three of The Great—Hulu’s hit period drama in which she portrays eighteenth-century Russian empress, Catherine the Great. She’s excited to talk about the show from the get-go...
Evening Standard •

The reinvention of Jeff Goldblum: I’d always try to slip piano playing into my movies

“Isn’t it all just crazy?!” Jeff Goldblum says with a bemused smile, hands aloft in disbelief, as he reflects on what he describes as his recent “growth spurt”. He’s not referring to a sudden change in his already imposing height (he is six foot four) but to the fact that now, aged 70, he has managed to carve out an incredible second career as an acclaimed jazz musician alongside being a Hollywood actor. “Isn’t it really something?!”
Evening Standard •

Ellie Goulding on her new album, anxiety and taking acting lessons

Her fifth studio album, Higher Than Heaven, came out of those sessions, and there’s not a ballad in earshot. It’s bright, cutting electro-pop that’s dancefloor ready and feels reminiscent of Swedish pop sensation Robyn in places. “I think it was an almost direct reaction to the pandemic and not being able to do the thing that I love, which is performing, and the fact none of us could go and dance with our friends,” she says…
The Telegraph •

The week’s best albums - Miley Cyrus, Sleaford Mods and more

Few bands have captured the political despair of the last decade as singularly as Nottingham duo Sleaford Mods. Their 2007 breakthrough Austerity Dogs was a bleak tableau of life below the poverty line, while 2011’s Eton Alive questioned the lack of empathy of those in power. Lockdown smash Spare Ribs (2021) was a piercing take-down of the government’s handling of the pandemic while their latest, UK Grim, now takes aim at the cost-of-living crisis...
whynow •

Sleaford Mods: ‘The working-class experience is too brutal for people. They don’t want to hear it’

“It’s a gallery of bellends”, Jason Williamson, singer and lyricist with Nottingham electro-punk duo Sleaford Mods says of the video that accompanies the title track from their latest album, UK Grim. Created by artist Coldwar Steve (known for his surreal dystopian creations about all that’s crap in Britain), it’s a rogue’s gallery of MPs who have made politics a misery over the last decade, as well as some celebrities who have made it just a bit (more) embarrassing to be British of late...
Evening Standard •

Popstar Mimi Webb: ‘Harry Styles told me I was smashing it’

Webb can be forgiven for being tired. Two days earlier, she was at the BRITs for the first time after being nominated for Best New Artist. The day after, she flew out to Cologne for a whirlwind promotional tour of her upcoming new album, Amelia, and now, she’s in a hotel in Berlin for more press before she travels further across Germany. She’s also getting ready for a headline tour this spring...
NME •

Slow Horses season 2 review: TV's best spy show hits new heights

Gary Oldman’s cranky spy Jackson Lamb is back, and he’s as scruffy, sarcastic and sweary as ever. “I wanna know who this fucker is and where he fackin’ went!” he roars to his weary team of MI5 rejects in Slow Horses season two, hair uncombed, teeth uncleaned and Columbo-mac very much unwashed. “Yeah, sorry about that, it lingered,” he tells an MI5 admin assistant later on, his farts causing just as much trouble now as they did in season one...
Flaunt Magazine •

Paul Mescal | Let's Pull the Rug Out, Shall We? —

Paul Mescal is taking things in stride as he speaks to Flaunt over an early morning video call from LA, despite a hectic schedule that’s seen him traveling thousands of miles over just a few days. He’s running his fingers through his messy hair and dressed simply in a dark t-shirt and jeans. He’s just got back from the Telluride Film Festival, but there’s little time for rest: in just a few hours, he’s flying to Toronto for the film festival there in support of his two new movies, Carmen…
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