INTERVIEW: CHRIS URBANOWICZ OF THE EDITORS

New York is in the grip of a snow storm when I catch up with the Editors’ lead guitarist Chris Urbanowicz. The Nottingham-born musician, 29, is full of apologies as our chat is punctuated by directions to the cab driver. “I’m sorry, I’m normally much more professional than this,” he explains. Chris, who is unusually polite […]
It’s 6:30pm and I’m drifting in and out of reality. I should be doing something, but instead I’m desperately trying to claw back a few hours sleep before I head out into the blistering cold. It’s the NME show tonight, and I just want to let this warm haze envelope me before the freeze fries […]

Bombay Bicycle Club Interview

INTERVIEW: FUN LOVIN’ CRIMINALS

It’s only when you hear them again, you realise how much you missed them. “No-one can really do what the Fun Lovin Criminals do,” announces vocalist, lyricist, guitarist and twinkle-eyed wise-guy Huey Morgan.  “We aren’t trying to keep up with the Joneses ‘cos there are no Joneses. There’s just us, who sound like us. And […]
Cloud Sounds started out as a one man radio show ran by a local Withington lad, mainly from the comfort of his own home. In spite of apparently modelling himself on Oscar The Grouch, once one gets over his provocative sense of humour, (which leaves you shoving your fist in your mouth to keep from […]

INTERVIEW: CLOUD SOUNDS

INTERVIEW: LIAM FROST

Silent Radio’s collective fingers and toes will be firmly crossed for Manchester’s Liam Frost this weekend as he bids to finally break into the big time. Early signs are promising for Hold Your Hand in Mine – the first single from Liam’s second album, We Ain’t Got No Money, Honey, But We Got Rain. The […]
If songwriters first have to experience life before they are qualified to write about it then Jesca Hoop has already earned her credentials. Born and raised in Sonoma County – a rural area of California, 30 miles north of San Francisco – the young folk songstress is now an honorary Mancunian. The fact that she […]

INTERVIEW: JESCA HOOP

INTERVIEW: ROOTS MANUVA

Through a haze of alcohol, and some other things that perhaps I should not mention, I had for sometime been trying to work out where my Mad Ferret Festival level three security wrist band would let me go. I hadn’t at this point tried to push too hard the limits of my freedom. Was level […]