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Interview – Rowetta

by Claire Simpson

Interview: RowettaRowetta.Eagle eyed Happy Mondays fans will have noticed a familiar face in the last series of ITV1′s hit show The X-Factor – former Mondays…



Interview – Bill Nighy

by Danuta Kean

Bill Nighy – Slartibartfast Gets SeriousBill Nighy as SlartibartfastVeteran actor Bill Nighy plays Slartibartfast in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy with laconic good humour.The...

Interview – Grand National

by Talia Soghomonian

The music world continues to love the cooler side if the ’80s.Retro pop duo Grand National get compared to The Police and Talk Talk. But...

Computerman

by Jeremy Lloyd

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Michael Jackson: Essential?

by Steve Hands

Within and without the headlines, scandals and ‘wacko’ tags, its easy to forget Michael Jackson the artist.musicOMH offers an opportunity to look beyond, at the...

musicOMH

by Michael Hubbard

BEST ALBUM: Scissor Sisters – Scissor SistersInitially shunned by their native USA – too interesting, clearly – the Sisters set about conquering the UK and...

Interview – James Yorkston

by Ben Hogwood

Edinburgh-based singer / songwriter James Yorkston’s music leans towards acoustic folk that has something of a timeless quality to it.Yorkston is supported by his group...

Interview – Ash

by Vik Bansal

It only feels like yesterday that a trio of Northern Irish sixth-formers were setting the world alight with their Jack Names The Planets, Petrol and...

Interview – Clor

by Linda Serck

Getting signed to Parlophone after only six gigs is nothing short of wonderous, yet London-based band Clor managed to do just that.musicOMH finds out from...

Interview – Gary Jules

by Tom Day

After a Christmas Number One single with his cover version of Tears For Fears’ Mad World, and all of the exposure such an achievement entails,...

Interview – Kings Of Convenience

by Paul Woloszyn

Once upon a time, if you had to think about things associated with Norway your mind would most probably conjure up images of Vikings with...

Interview – Nine Black Alps

by Jeremy Lloyd

Manchester’s Nine Black Alps are one of the many exciting new rock bands to emerge on to the scene this year. In a very short...

Interview – Skin

by Michael Osborn

Skin, one of the few black women ever to front a successful rock band, is back – but the shaven head and politics are gone.The...

Review of 2005: Singles

by David Welsh

1. Arcade Fire – Rebellion (Lies)It’s furious, ecstatic, frustrated, yearning, beautiful and uniquely brilliant. All at once.2. Richard Hawley – The OceanThe first single from...

Classical Preview: London Concerts and Opera, A...

by Dominic McHugh

Classical Preview: London Concerts and Opera, Autumn 2005Nielsen’s Maskarade, in the production by Bregenz, 2005: one of Royal Opera’s autumn season highlights. The Royal Opera...

Glyndebourne Festival Opera – Summer 2006...

by Dominic McHugh

The premiere of Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia took place there in 1946; the 1947 performance of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice with Kathleen Ferrier...

Rory Bremner

by Danuta Kean