Not Richard and Her Majesty: How Rich Fownes Found Freedom After Ruin

As we catch up in 2026, Rich Fownes looks almost disarmingly at ease. No grimy backstage, no dim corridor outside a venue, no chaos humming just off-screen. For a man whose life has been built on high-volume, high-impact noise – Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Bad For Lazarus, a surreal spell inside the Nine Inch Nails universe – it’s strangely fitting that the most honest version of him so far emerges from a quiet domestic setting. “I am simply very content and happy right now,” he says, half-smiling. “And that feels like something I don’t even want to say, because it makes me feel so insecure… contrary to all the lyrics.” For more visit: https://www.soundspheremag.com/