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The summer edition of M magazine has hit the doormats. To accompany the features in this issue, we have a number of extended interviews for you.

Anita Awbi
  • By Anita Awbi
  • 20 Jun 2011
  • min read
The summer edition of M magazine has hit the doormats.  To accompany the features in this issue, we have put together some extended interviews for you.

New Music at Royal Wedding
Classical composer Paul Mealor was catapulted to fame when his latest motet, Ubi Caritas, was premiered at the Royal Wedding on 29th April.  Read the full interview

A day at The Ivors
Watch video interviews
with Ivors winners and guests including Jimmy Page, Steve Winwood and Tinie Tempah

UK still triumphs at Eurovision
Despite British hopefuls Blue only reaching 11th place with I Can in Dusseldorf last month, the UK still triumphed at Eurovision this year. Songwriter Iain Farquharson wrote the winning song Running Scared for Azerbaijan.  Read the full interview

Win a Metropolis Studios i-Mix
We've teamed up with Metropolis to offer PRS for Music members a ‘Silver’ i-Mix of one of their songs. The package includes a mix of your track with one revision and a stereo file of the master mix, P.A (TV) mix, an instrumental, and a capella in 16 Bit wav for CD. Enter the competition

I Wrote That
Save Your Kisses for Me was the winning song of the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest, performed by the UK's Brotherhood of Man. The song went on to become the biggest-selling single for a winning entry in the history of the contest.  Read the extended interview

Popping Out
Many pop musicians are scoring music for film, ballet and opera than ever, opening the floodgates for music creators keen to cross over.

Read the extended interview with Goldfrapp's Will Gregory, who talks to Anita Awbi about composing for film and opera, and examines the invaluable skills that pop musicians can bring to new genres

Read Anita Awbi's extended interview with Stuart Staples from Tindersticks on how working on album projects and soundtracks simultaneously has kept his songwriting fresh

Watch a video of composer James Brett at Abbey Road Studios as he works on the score to the Batman Live theatre production