Interviews
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 former Skunk Anansie vocalist uses her solo record, Fleshwounds,…
by Michael Hubbard
Norway’s Kings Of Convenience pleased indie fans and post-club party people alike on the way to notching up 130,000 sales of the Quiet Is The New Loud album. The hushed vocal duets and intricate acoustic...
by Michael Hubbard
Fresh from winning the 2002 Top Of The Pops award as Best Dance Act, super dance group Ian Van Dahl show no signs of being a flash in the pan. The combo consists of producers...
by Michael Hubbard
Pop Idol made stars of Will Young, Gareth Gates and Darius – and now the highest placed girl is set for planet pop. Fourth-placed Zoe Birkett, just 17 years of age, has released her debut...
by Michael Hubbard
Since being nominated in 1991’s inaugural Mercury Music Prize for The Auteurs‘ debut LP New Wave, Luke Haines has ranked amongst the UK’s most important songwriters with a body of work comparable to that of...
by Michael Hubbard
Yann Tiersen‘s soundtrack to Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s blockbuster Amélie has garnered the French composer new fans and much acclaim. Before Montmarte’s most famous resident hit the cultural radar, however, Tiersen’s groundbreaking contemporary music was already lauded....
by Michael Hubbard
Lately there’s been an unseemly rush by a bewildering assortment of musicians to cover and sample songs by a bloke from Hammersmith. Pop kittens Sugababes reached number one with Freak Like Me earlier this year,...
by Michael Hubbard
Prior to the phenomenon that was Gorillaz, Essex boy Damon Albarn was of course best known as Blur‘s front man – and for having arguments with Oasis. But when Gorillaz appeared, featuring rap, dub and...
by Michael Hubbard
The brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll are hardly fashionable these days, but as Orbital they are rightly talked about as amongst the very pioneers of dance music as we know it. A decade on from...
by Michael Hubbard
Atlanta’s trailblazing, Grammy Award-winning lesbian folk-rock duo, Indigo Girls, are unleashing a new album – Become You – and it’s being touted as a “back to basics” approach for them. Amy Ray and Emily Saliers...
by Michael Hubbard
Scottish supergroup Belle and Sebastian have collected about them a cult following since their mid-1990s debut, Tigermilk. But, having just released the soundtrack to the film Storytelling, the band received the news that their cellist...
by Michael Hubbard
Coinciding with the release of his debut solo album Sleeping On Roads, musicOMH caught up with Mojave 3 and ex-Slowdive front man Neil Halstead on a freezing cold winter’s night in east London… Having had...
by Michael Hubbard
In a basement under Spitalfields Market, Joby Talbot is tripping over things. Always the epitome of level-headedness, The Divine Comedy‘s orchestral arranger, keyboard player and occasional oboe and cor anglais performer is, this evening, undeniably...
by Michael Hubbard
The proggers’ frontman on Genesis, coffee bars and fan funding models
by Helen Wright
Having formed the critically lauded band Jack and the spin-off Jacques, Anthony Reynolds is now turning to writing books. It’s a balmy evening in north London, and we’re standing on his doorstep trying to get...
by Pam Huwig
Let us introduce you to a taste of some of the rawest, edgiest music to hit studios lately and to pass through Indigo Girls‘ Amy Ray‘s lips. Indigo Girls’ bond is strong enough to accommodate...
by Michael Hubbard
Andy White, formerly of ALT with Liam of Hothouse Flowers and Tim of Crowded House, is now solo and looking to be famous on his own terms. We caught up with his stratospheric folksy star,...
by Michael Hubbard
Following the release of Brian‘s second album Bring Trouble, the quiet, resolutely unstarry Ken Sweeney has been lauded in the press. Now he’s been nominated for best single of the year in The Irish Music...
by Michael Hubbard
He’s 32, he’s been in Father Ted, he’s just given up his day job and is now A Professional Musician with a record deal and the patronage of Sean Hughes, Ardal O’Hanlon, Graham Linehan and...
by Michael Hubbard
“There’s lime in this!” Debbie Lime points an accusing finger at the glass of lager on the table before her and regards it with a frown. Her protestations are directed at Nick Eastwood; Venini‘s bassist...
by Michael Hubbard
Neil Hannon, the brain behind The Divine Comedy, has achieved unprecedented success since Chris Evans played Something For The Weekend on his Radio 1 breakfast show back in 1996. The tiny Ulsterman has been working...
