Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

Alvise Sforza Tarabochia lectures in Italian Studies at the University of Kent. In this fascinating interview we discuss Alvise’s love of heavy metal, his degree in Philosophy from his native Italy and why the prospect of doing a PhD in Philosophy was not the right path for him. We learn that Alvise grew up wanting to be a surgeon and that his mother is a retired academic in the history of medieval art and his father is a civil engineer. We talk about the change in academic culture and ask the big ‘what if?’ questions, and Alvise explains why he’s glad he didn’t become a medical doctor. From childhood, Alvise remembers going fishing with his parents as well as skiing and playing in a band, and we talk about what happens when one ends up living someone else’s dream. He reveals how he ended up in a heavy metal band and the pleasure involved in that, and we talk about a film we have both seen, ‘Lords of Chaos’, about the founding myth of black metal. We also discuss his interest in film, especially ‘Sta