In the latest of our series in which musicians write about their sources of inspiration, Adrien Pigeat, composer, guitarist, bandleader, producer and the instigator of Second Brain writes about his long-term admiration for, and association with, the music of Frank [...]
The death of the troubled English singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse in 2011 seemed to touch us all. Everyone knew, everyone was shocked and everyone was talking about it. Amy’s life was a head-on collision with fame, heartbreak and addiction, which was [...]
Estraven (a quartet of bassist/composer Chris Hyde-Harrison, saxophonist Duncan Eagles, guitarist Alban Claret and drummer Matt Parkinson) will release their debut album on 4 March. As a BA in English Literature, it’s perhaps not surprising that bassist Chris Hyde-Harrison’s musical [...]
Mark Lockheart is a saxophonist and composer who first entered national consciousness in the 1980s with Loose Tubes, and was later co-leader of Polar Bear. His albums with Jasper Hoiby and Liam Noble or in his own groups have most [...]
Dave Pegg, the bass guitarist with Fairport Convention, once likened that band’s manifold personnel changes to staff turnover in an office. Twenty-six arrivals and departures in twenty-five years (at the time), the man they call Peggy reckoned, wouldn’t have been [...]
