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The Obelisk Questionnaire: Alex Hurst of Boss Keloid

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The Obelisk Questionnaire is a series of open questions intended to give the answerer an opportunity to explore these ideas and stories from their life as deeply as they choose. Answers can be short or long, and that reveals something in itself, but the most important factor is honesty.

Based on the Proust Questionnaire, the goal over time is to show a diverse range of perspectives as those who take part bring their own points of view to answering the same questions. To see all The Obelisk Questionnaire posts, click here.

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The Obelisk Questionnaire: Alex Hurst of Boss Keloid

How do you define what you do and how did you come to do it?

I make sounds and melody with my vocal chords and my guitar over twisting landscapes of music. I came to do this by meeting like-minded lovers of music and strangeness and having an urge to create.

Describe your first musical memory.

Watching my older brother’s band jamming in my mum and dad’s garage as a young kid. I think they were covering Nirvana ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ and it blew my tiny, young mind.

Describe your best musical memory to date.

Playing live and seeing someone singing the words you have written back to you with passion, it always gets me every single time and each time the memory becomes engraved in my brain.

When was a time when a firmly held belief was tested?

I don’t have any firmly held beliefs. I like to think I’m a very open minded person and I will always listen to someone else’s point of view before realising I was right all along… haha.

Where do you feel artistic progression leads?

It can only lead to greatness but that’s only if your artistic path is good in the first place of course.

How do you define success?

Success to me is happiness. If I’m happy and smiling then it’s a complete success as far as I’m concerned.

What is something you have seen that you wish you hadn’t?

I run a rehearsal studios and have done for the past 20 years in Wigan called Urbansound and one time I walked in on someone (who I knew) having sex in one of my rooms and I just happened to have a Henry Hoover in my hands at the time, it was a very awkward encounter.

Describe something you haven’t created yet that you’d like to create.

The greatest Dub Reggae album ever! It will happen at some point and it’s going to have vibes galore I promise.

What do you believe is the most essential function of art?

Making people buzz and provoking thoughts. Without art this world would be a dead planet.

Something non-musical that you’re looking forward to?

A proper get together at the Hurst palace of sound (my house). We did have these gatherings quite frequently before Mr. Covid came a-knocking.

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