Features

Guy Michelmore

‘Composers are like sharks - if we don’t keep moving forward, we die’ - award winner Guy Michelmore lets us in on his new course and how to make it in the film music industry…

By Jim Ottewill 26 Jul 2016

Tony James

'What's the most important thing I've learned in my 40-plus year career? Don't take heroin!' Tony James looks back on punk and forward to grime and the new technologies reshaping music.

By Anita Awbi 26 Jul 2016

Experts explore music's changing role in videogames

Watch publishers and leading executives from the gaming and licensing worlds share their views on the future of music within videogames.

By Anita Awbi 25 Jul 2016

Lanzarote Works

Lanzarote Works are the gang behind a clutch of hallowed Hackney haunts. Testament to their endeavours, they’ve turned in a fab playlist featuring some of the ace acts they’re hosting soon...

By Anita Awbi 22 Jul 2016

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Kenneth Hesketh

Philosophy, death and entropy are just some of the knotty topics composer Kenneth Hesketh likes to wrestle with in his work. Here, he tells us more about his diverse interests and how they feed into his music...

By Anita Awbi 22 Jul 2016

Liverpool Philharmonic

Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra chief executive officer Michael Eakin gives us the low down on the health of the city’s music scene and the classical institution’s projects…

By Jim Ottewill 22 Jul 2016

Clean Cut Kid

Liverpool’s Clean Cut Kid are one of the buzziest acts being bandied around by tastemakers - we delve into their roots and the ‘raw sexiness’ that brought them together…

By Jim Ottewill 21 Jul 2016

Wilko Johnson

‘You’d walk on stage man and nothing matters. You’ve got no future - the past is beyond help. You’re on the stage to just play rock n roll’ - music legend Wilko Johnson on music, writing and how he beat death…

By Jim Ottewill 20 Jul 2016