Whatever the weather, spacious electronic trio Dark Sky can create their own brooding atmosphere that lingers long after the music stops. With just a couple of choice bits of sound equipment to play with, we find out how they do it...
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Jim Ottewill explores the changing face of British brass bands...
The Hackney Colliery Band are doing their bit to reinvent the brass band tradition with sets at London Olympics 2012 and diverse influences. The group’s Steve Pretty tells us how…
Kim Frankiewicz, managing director of Imagem Music UK, reveals the music that soundtracks her life. Expect a mixed bag of classics from Elvis and Johnny Cash to Stevie Wonder.
Manchester singer songwriter Liam Blakes gives us the inside track on his music and love for his home city as part of PRS for Music's Song for Manchester campaign...
Award winning composer Robert Mitchell is taking on his most ambitious work yet in the form of Invocation, a cross-genre classical suite. We quiz him on the ideas behind the piece…
Mina Tindle, aka Paulina de Lassus, is a French chanteuse capable of breaking British hearts from all the way across the channel in her native Paris. Find out more about her fanciful new-wave pop...
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