Record Collector • 18th January 2021

Kate Bush's 'The Sensual World' - an essay

Wuthering Heights saw Bush immersed in Emily Brönte’s gothic fever dream as she sang of wild moors, grief, lost loves and haunted nights under the guise of the book’s doomed protagonist, Catherine ‘Cathy’ Earnshaw. Over a decade later, there were uncanny parallels as Bush turned to another famous female literary character on The Sensual World’s title track: Molly Bloom from James Joyce’s Ulysses...

NME • 11th December 2020

The story behind the new Bee Gees documentary: "Saturday Night Fever changed their lives forever”

In his sweeping new documentary, How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, renowned director and producer Frank Marshall tells the extraordinary life story of the Bee Gees: how three brothers from Manchester went on to sell over 220 million records worldwide and wrote one of the greatest movie soundtracks of all time with Saturday Night Fever....

NME • 10th December 2020

Film Cover Story with Finn Cole

Finn Cole is back where he’s happiest: at work, in front of the camera. Catching up with NME over the phone from LA, the rising star is between takes of Animal Kingdom – the popular US gangster drama returning for a fifth season next year. After 10 months stuck in various levels of lockdown, his relief at being able to do what he loves again is palpable. “My ideal place to be is on set, figuring out how to tell stories and entertain. That’s where I’ll usually be if you’re looking for me,” he say

Flaunt Magazine • 8th December 2020

Cover Interview: Adria Arjona

When you ask Adria Arjona how she’s coped with lockdown, her answer is unflinchingly honest. “Lockdown? Oh, it fucked me up,” the 28-year-old actor admits candidly. “It’s been so harsh. I’ve never spent this amount of time at home, never.” Since childhood, Arjona has rarely stayed in one place for long. After living a nomadic childhood on account of her father’s job (he is renowned, award-winning singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona) and traveling frequently from set-to-set as an adult with roles in True Detective, Emerald City, and Pacific Rim: Uprising—to name a mere few...

NME • 18th November 2020

Interview: Vampire Weekend's Chris Baio on his new studio album

Vampire Weekend’s Chris Baio is back with his third solo album, ‘Dead Hand Control’. A more hopeful look at the world following years of political upheaval, the record was completed between touring Vampire Weekend’s ‘Father Of The Bride’ and this year’s lockdown. After months of sitting on the release thanks to the pandemic, Baio is excited for the world to finally hear what he’s been working on...

NME • 17th November 2020

Hannah Georgas on her new single with The National's Matt Berninger

Hannah Georgas has today released a new version of one of her standout album tracks, ‘Pray It Away’. With her album ‘All That Emotion’ produced by The National’s Aaron Dessner, today’s new cut sees her team up with his bandmate Matt Berninger, who adds some lush vocals and a new depth to the song. We caught up with Georgas on the phone from her native Canada to hear more about the collaboration, heartbreak, same sex marriage, Dessner’s Taylor Swift secret, and her plans for the future...

Empire Magazine • 9th November 2020

Rebecca Ferguson: High Wire Act

BACK IN AUGUST 2014, on her very first day of filming on Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, Rebecca Ferguson jumped 120 feet off an Austrian rooftop. Not bad for a sufferer of vertigo. And so impressed was Tom Cruise, that later in the shoot he asked her how she felt about joining him in another stunt — her attached to the wing of a biplane, him piloting it. “I said, ‘You must be fucking joking!’” she recalls replying. “‘What? Absolutely not!’”

NME • 28th October 2020

Jawny - 'For Abby' review

Bedroom pop producers have been keeping busy during the coronavirus lockdown, and Jawny, the West Coast DIY artist born Jacob Sullenger and previously known as Johnny Utah, is just one example. His latest project ‘For Abby’, a 10-song ‘mixtape’ which is “definitely not an EP, but also not an album”, was completed during a productive period of isolation...

NME • 16th October 2020

Glass Animals – ‘Live In The Internet’ review

“Welcome to the internet – we’re live in the internet!” charismatic Glass Animals frontman Dave Bayley excitedly bellows into a computer screen, the Oxford indie-pop quartet becoming the latest group to turn to virtual gigging during the strange new normal. “We’re going to try to use the power of the internet to get something you can’t get during a show...

Empire • 15th October 2020

'I Am Greta' - Review

Filmmaker Nathan Grossman provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the life of teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg. Charting her dramatic rise from solitary protestor to voice of a generation, Grossman captures Thunberg as she balances home and school life with leading global protests and holding world leaders to account...

NME • 5th October 2020

Cinema staff across the UK react to extensive closures

When it emerged late on Saturday evening that Cineworld were rumoured to be temporarily closing all of their cinema chains, staff members in the ‘Cineworld Action Group‘ – a group formed and run by Cineworld and Picturehouse employees around the UK – reacted to the news. A front-page story in The Sunday Times said that they were about to be made redundant...

Flaunt Magazine • 2nd October 2020

On The Cover - Ana de Armas

Prior to lockdown, she hadn’t stopped since arriving in LA. After filming finished on Blonde, de Armas got the call to return to Bond once more. “It was kind of a mess in my head,” she laughs, explaining how she went from playing Marilyn to Paloma in the space of just three days. “The second time I had to go back to shoot Bond, I finished filming Blonde on the Friday and started shooting No Time to Die on the Monday..."

NME • 24th September 2020

Michael Kiwanuka on his Mercury Prize win: "It's definitely encouraged me to keep dreaming big"

Michael Kiwanuka was tonight crowned the winner of the Hyundai Mercury Prize 2020 for his third studio album, ‘KIWANUKA.’ In a five star review, NME described the album as “the sound of an artist coming into his own through brave and dizzying experimentation” and “a daring leap of self-affirmation.”...

Empire Magazine • 20th September 2020

Alec Baldwin Pays Tribute To The Late, Great Alan Parker – Exclusive

On July 31, news came that legendary London-born filmmaker Alan Parker had died at the age of 76 – leaving behind a legacy of incredible movies, bringing his extraordinary craft to kid-gangster musicals, blazing prison movies, supernatural noirs, and Irish soul dramas alike. In the Dune issue of Empire – on sale now – we asked Hollywood’s finest to share their tributes to the man himself. Among them is actor Alec Baldwin...

NME • 16th September 2020

Des' Daniel Mays on playing the officer who brought Dennis Nilsen to justice

“Well, there’s probably not a better qualified actor in the country to play a policeman than me,” Daniel Mays laughs as NME asks him about his long history of playing police officers. He’s played a Victorian officer in The Limehouse Golem, a 80’s DCI in Ashes to Ashes and a corrupt cop in Line of Duty. He’s even played a brought-back-from-the-dead, re-animated officer alongside Stephen Graham in Code 404 – one of lockdown’s television highlights...

NME • 11th September 2020

Everything Everything Interview for NME

Everything Everything haven’t had the best start to 2020: in fact, it has been downright atrocious. If you’d have told the Manchester art-rock quartet at the start of the year that they’d have been dealing with fires, floods and an actual pandemic – well, they’d have said it sounds more like something from one of their apocalypse-fearing songs than real life...

The Guardian • 8th September 2020

Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Spiller: how we made Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love)

This was one of the fastest tracks I ever produced. It was 1999, the night before I was due to fly to Miami for the Winter Music Conference, where all aspiring DJs and producers went. I was trying to stay awake for my early-morning flight and put on an unreleased version of Carol Williams’ Love Is You. I ended up sampling it and, in a couple of hours, I had Groovejet more or less written....

NME • 1st September 2020

Leah Weller on new single 'Strangers' and finding her voice: "My dad wasn’t super thrilled with my whole Marilyn Manson era"

Leah Weller has had a busy few months. Managing to write and release debut single ‘Change’ back in April despite the difficulties of lockdown (Ocean Colour Scene‘s Steve Craddock produced her single remotely), she now shares new song ‘Strangers’ today as part of an EP, or “possibly an album”, Leah says...

Empire Magazine • 1st September 2020

Remembering filmmaker Alan Parker

A tribute to the late, great, filmmaker Alan Parker for Empire Magazine. Features interviews with Dexter Fletcher, Alec Baldwin, Gurinder Chadha, Lord David Puttnam, Matthew Modine and more...

Nme • 14th August 2020

Jade Anouka on her powerful new short film 'Her & Her'

Jade Anouka hasn’t stopped during lockdown. In the space of three months, she starred in Aisha Zia’s powerful isolation video, Bedlam Before the Burnout, produced a Shakespeare video which went viral (helmed by Judi Dench, no less), as well as writing, directing and starring in her own powerful new short film, Her & Her – and all from her south London flat...