Features

GIR #GETHEARD Future Hitmaker Award: Meet the winners

Created in collaboration with Carla-Marie Williams, the Future Hitmaker Award is powered by PRS Foundation’s ground-breaking Hitmaker Fund and supported by Spotify.

By Maya Radcliffe 20 Jul 2021

Interview: Emma McGrath

‘I hope people can look at me and think it’s alright to be who they want to be. I hope I have a positive impact on people.’

By Holly Royall 15 Jul 2021

LGBTQ+ artists to watch in 2021

From thunderous feminist punk to silky neo-soul, get to know some of the best breakthrough LGBTQ+ talent our little island has to offer.

By Maya Radcliffe 7 Jul 2021

Interview: Jack Savoretti

With his sun-soaked, star-studded seventh album Europiana, Jack Savoretti is back with a bang. Now signed to EMI, the chart-topping singer/songwriter talks to James Hanley about staying in charge of his own destiny.

By James Hanley 1 Jul 2021

Decades of difference: The journey of queer

John Myatt, member of PRS for Music’s LGBTQ+ Diversity Stream, explores how music has charted expression through pop hits and hooks throughout the past 50 years.

By John Myatt 29 Jun 2021

Interview: Arlissa

‘To me, creativity is all about creating something wonderful out of your experiences and having that inspire other people. We’re all just creating and we’re all just making these beautiful things, because life is just that, isn’t it?’

By Sam Ilori 25 Jun 2021

PRS Members’ Fund: The spiral of uncertainty

With the easing of lockdown restrictions delayed, PRS Members’ Fund’s Athena Pite delivers a message to PRS Members struggling to cope with the unpredictability of the times we find ourselves in.

24 Jun 2021

The power of audio: A look at queer representation on the radio

Host of Proud on Apple Music, Hattie Collins, explores which UK radio stations are putting in the work to represent the full scope of varied LGBTQ+ voices and asks whether the same is happening in commercial and regional radio.

By Hattie Collins 24 Jun 2021