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Hungrytown: ‘I couldn’t help noticing how easy it was for us to sing together’

Hungrytown on living in Greenwich Village in the late 1960s, singing together on their first date and giving up their day jobs to follow their dreams.

29 November 2025

THE ‘ONE TO WATCH’ INTERVIEW

The Red Tack: ‘This is the closest thing to flying a songwriter can experience’

The Red Tack on dancing to the rhythm of the washing machine, infiltrating the Boston scene during the time of Dinosaur Jr. and Throwing Muses, and how Diamond Dogs changed his life.

15 November 2025

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Balloon: ‘I know people who rate Gravity among their favourites. There was trepidation about the new LP’

Their 1992 debut, Gravity, was widely heralded and they seemed set for glory. And then years of silence. Balloon’s Ian Bickerton tells us what happened, and why it took three decades to make their follow-up.

25 October 2025

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Sarah McQuaid: ‘I’d call out song requests to my mum in the next room’

The singer-songwriter on her musical childhood, listening to the Beatles on her Mickey Mouse turntable and how her mother's death sent her in a new creative direction.

11 October 2025

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Shapes Like People: ‘I almost decapitated Kylie Minogue with a scissor kick’

When Kat Mann challenged husband Carl to write songs to pitch to Kylie Minogue, neither of them knew it would lead to the formation of Shapes Like People — nor a glistening debut album. David Rea spoke to them to find out more.

6 September 2024

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Paul Garside: ‘A whole new world opened up’

The London singer-songwriter on taking classical music to the school disco and how giving up set him free.

1 September 2025

One to watch

Hungrytown: ‘I couldn’t help noticing how easy it was for us to sing together’

The Red Tack: ‘This is the closest thing to flying a songwriter can experience’

Balloon: ‘I know people who rate Gravity among their favourites. There was trepidation about the new LP’

Sarah McQuaid: ‘I’d call out song requests to my mum in the next room’

Shapes Like People: ‘I almost decapitated Kylie Minogue with a scissor kick’

Paul Garside: ‘A whole new world opened up’

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