Silvia, not Sylvia, Author at The Shortlisted

From Wrecking Ball and Fifty Shades of Grey to the roots of solo piano music: interview with Stephan Moccio

19th September 2021

Stephan Moccio by Western University © This man is a man of many trades and master of all, and the whole of the trades he masters invariably involves music. But not just random music. Oscar and Grammy-nomin...

EXCLUSIVE interview with Back To The Future creator Bob Gale

24th August 2021

Original movie poster of Back To The Future The second-last time I watched Back To The Future was in July 2019 at an outdoor cinema at Hyde Park in London. At the time - a time which feels like 90 years ago ...

Secretly- videoclip by Skunk Anansie, 1999

Skunk Anansie’s Skin: a politically incorrect interview

10th July 2021

Skunk Anansie's Skin by Geroge Frangoudes © This bright and charismatic woman is somebody I grew up listening to, and it's hard to describe how weird and exciting it felt at the same time to hear her soothing...

To the 1980s New Romantic and back: interview with Spandau Ballet’s Steve Norman

20th June 2021

Spandau Ballet in the 1980s - © to the owners When in 2019 I put myself in real trouble after writing The day I didn't interview Lord Sugar about my miserable time working for a company of Brexiteers in Lon...

Hans Marius HM Johnsen at the Abbey Road Studios in London

Interview with HM Johnsen about rock music, the Abbey Road Studios, the Paul is Dead conspiracy theory and whether Norway is really not into the EU

10th June 2021

HM Johnsen © to the owners One day back in 2015, a 17-years old Norwegian singer and songwriter named Hans-Marius Johnsen, better known as HM Johnsen, was boringly sitting in high school, wishing to be somewh...

How to organise Banksy exhibits without ever getting to meet Banksy

9th June 2021

Kissing Coppers by Banksy © After travelling to Amsterdam, Auckland, Gothenburg, Istanbul, Melbourne, Miami, Sydney, Tel Aviv and Toronto and being admired by more than 750,000 visitors worldwide, the world’s...

danny zelisko all excess, collage of musicians concert promoter book

From Alice Cooper to Guns N’ Roses, from Queen to Pink Floyd: interview with the man who has worked with everybody

3rd June 2021

Whitney Houston, 1991 concert leaflet There are many stories and memories about the past of rock music out there, and then there is parasite literature. Being able to draw the line between the two is what te...

Interview with electronic music legend Moby which is way too short but I’m happy anyway

28th May 2021

Moby by Travis Schneider © I'm not a fan of press conferences. It must come down to the fact that I'm not a fan of the press per se, which is an arrogant enough reason to have pursued a career in the press si...

Ludovico Einaudi credit copyright to Ray Tarantino

Interview with Ludovico Einaudi on writing music scores for Academy Award-winning films

24th May 2021

Ludovico Einaudi by Cesare Cicardini © As illogical and unpatriotic as it may sound, passing through the UK to interview Italian musicians whilst being Italian myself has eventually become the norm for me, an...

Tally Koren Israeli singer Magical Power

The poem by a 13-year-old that became a single: interview with Tally Koren about Magical Powers

23rd May 2021

Magical Powers by Tally Koren Tally Koren is an Israeli pop star with a deep velvety voice who won Best Singer-Songwriter at the Fringe Awards in 2011, took part in The Graham Norton Show, sang at The Royal A...

The Animals music video The House of The rising sun and Don't let me be misunderstood

The House of the Rising Sun & the 1960s British Invasion: interview with The Animals’ John Steel

28th April 2021

The Animals in 1965 © to the owners An interview I recently ran with Imelda May about her new music featuring Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones and Noel Gallagher of a band that it should have been illegal to...

Alice Merton credits Paper Plane Records by Danny Jungslund

From making the Billboard charts with No Roots to singing with Tom Odell: interview with Alice Merton

24th April 2021

Alice Merton by Danny Jungslund for Paper Plane Records © Four years after the huge success of her 2017 debut EP No Roots that entered three different American Billboard charts, made the Top 10 all across Eur...

Leather Tuscadero (Suzi Quatro) & Fonzie in Happy Days © to the owners

Interview with the queen of 1970s rock ‘n’ roll and Happy Days star Suzi Quatro

8th March 2021

Leather Tuscadero (Suzi Quatro) & Fonzie in Happy Days © to the owners The acclaimed role as a bass player Leather Tuscadero in the legendary American sitcom Happy Days, the massive hits Can the Can and D...

11 Past the Hour by Imelda May cd album cover

Interview with Imelda May about music, art, poetry and the new duet with Noel Gallagher and Ronnie Wood

23rd February 2021

11 Past the Hour by Imelda May - cover art by Eddie Otchere inspired by Pattie Boyd © Four years after the release of her intimate 2017 CD Life Love Flesh Blood which reached number 2 in Ireland, number 5 in ...

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