“I don’t really know how to make dance music”: the melancholy of Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor
Heartbreak, Fabric and Brexit: the frontman of Britain’s chirpiest electropop band on why he’s started writing piano ballads.
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Discover our latest interviews with notable personalities across various fields. Step into the minds of influential figures and gain unique perspectives.
Sheku Kanneh-Mason on football, maths and Shostakovich
At age 17, Kenneh-Mason is the first black winner of the Young Musician award. Can the cellist bring something new to…
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He gave a total stranger $50,000 in cash: the strange, multi-million dollar empire of Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Kate Mossman meets the man behind one of the world’s wealthiest rock bands.
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“My love life would have been way better“: Christine and the Queens on gender fluidity and drag
The many personalities of Héloïse Letissier, awkward superstar of Christine and the Queens.
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No One’s Little Girl: what it was like to be a woman in the man’s world of punk
Women who were in bands during the punk era question the nostalgia surrounding the genre.
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Annie Nightingale: “I was just enthusiastic about the music!”
Annie Nightingale has died, aged 83. In this interview from 2016, she discussed grime, sexism, and Donald Trump.
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“I’m a worrier, and this is my outlet”: Jessie Cave on the art of anxiety
The Harry Potter actress talks romantic relationships, controversial castings, and her one-woman show, I Loved Her.
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Rupert Goold: “A director always has to be more of a listener”
The artistic director of the Almeida Theatre on working with Patrick Stewart, the inaccessibility of the arts, and directing his…
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“You’d be pretty if you shaved”: Miss Cairo and Jonny Woo on the trials of modern-day drag artists
Stars of the London drag scene on performing for mainstream audiences, offending feminists, and why everyone’s genitalia is funny to…
ByMarin Alsop: “Musicians as much as audiences need to get used to seeing women on the podium”
Alexandra Coghlan talks to Marin Alsop, the first woman to conduct the Last Night of the Proms.
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Wendy Cope: “I can’t die until I’ve sorted out the filing cabinets”
As Wendy Cope donates her archive to the British Library, is the literary world at last taking her seriously?
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“How can we have 92 hereditary peers in the Lords after 12 years of a Labour government? We have to
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