Le Document Chris Tosic

Harry Pye and Chris Tosic, who co-edit the monthly blog/magazine Le Document, interview James Johnston & Steve Gullick on the eve of the release of their new LP We Travel Time.

James Johnston is a London based musician and painter, primarily known for his work with his own band Gallon Drunk; as a former member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds; and for both touring and recording with PJ Harvey, with whom his most recent work has been collaboration on theatre scores. He has also collaborated regularly with Faust, Lydia Lunch, ...Bender, Barry Adamson, and worked on a number of film scores.

A prolific painter exhibiting regularly, his work has also been used on book covers, as album artwork, and featured in a variety of arts publications, with paintings in international collections – including the collection of the University of Chicago in Paris.

Steve Gullick is a renowned photographer who began shooting for Sounds Magazine in 1990 and, during the decades that followed, worked his way through every major music publication, as well as working extensively with Nirvana, Prodigy, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and a host of artists too numerous to mention.

In 2001 Gullick established Careless Talk Cost Lives magazine, a music-inspired publication that was conceived to run for twelve issues & completed its objective two years later. As a musician, following a sustained attack on the four-track, he formed ...Bender with Johnston in 2004, then went onto release music & tour under the guise of Tenebrous Liar. He has also toured as a guitar player with Mark Lanegan / Soulsavers.