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Scots Trad Music Awards

Welcome to this week’s traditional Scottish playlist in honour of the weekend’s Scottish Trade Music awards. Simon Thoumire from the awards has kindly compiled this playlist for the event, which is now in its 11th year. It aims to celebrate the country’s wealth of home grown musical talent while the likes of Kathleen MacInns, Blazin’ Fiddles and The Shee are all set to give performances on the night. Look out for the results from the evening on M…

By Jim Ottewill 6 Dec 2013

Fimber Bravo

Our M50 magazine party at London’s Social saw some great performances from some of our favourite new acts. Alongside Anna Meredith and Mo Kolours, steel pan maestro Fimber Bravo gave one of the sets of the night with his percussion heavy skills coming to the fore. Fimber has enjoyed a great year after collaborating with the likes of Hot Chip and Zongamin on his recent LP Con-Fusion. Check out his performance of live favourite Grey Clouds from the night…

By Jim Ottewill 5 Dec 2013

Faber Music & Citizens!

For our latest Sync Review we talk to Faber Music’s Andrew Allday to get the lowdown on the Citizens! track that advertisers can’t seem to get enough of.

By Anita Awbi 2 Dec 2013

Kids In Glass Houses

We quiz Welsh rockers Kids in Glass Houses on songwriting, playing live and supporting Bon Jovi…

By Jim Ottewill 2 Dec 2013

M Magazine 50Th Issue

This week saw M Magazine celebrate its 50th issue with a party at London’s Social. Anna Meredith, Fimber Bravo and Mo Kolours were the trio of great acts (and recent interviewees) who came down to help us mark the occasion while Horse Meat Disco’s Jim Stanton manned the decks to guide us through the night. Our latest playlist takes in acts from the night as well as some of our favourites from previous issues...

By Jim Ottewill 29 Nov 2013

William Orbit

Madonna collaborator William Orbit talks production, pop music and why musicians should not work for free…

By Jim Ottewill 28 Nov 2013

Mugstar

Mugstar are veterans of the UK’s psychedelic scene and one of the late, great John Peel’s favourite bands. M quizzed them about their numerous musical experiments and film projects…

By Jim Ottewill 22 Nov 2013

Dario Marianelli

Oscar winning composer Dario Marianelli has written music for some of Hollywood’s biggest films including Atonement and Anna Karenina. M quizzes him on how he started writing music for the silver screen...

By Jim Ottewill 21 Nov 2013

Alice Russell

M quizzed soul star Alice Russell on songwriting and working with David Byrne…

By Jim Ottewill 20 Nov 2013
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