As Simply Red release a new album, Mick Hucknall talks about what he considers the “perfect and complete” albums that inspired him, defined his approach to making music, and taught him how to be in a band. Also, about how he thrilled he was to be cock-blocked by Miles Davis. Photo by Dean Chalkley
Ahead of the release of her third album under the Pharmakon moniker (and appearance at the Rewire Festival), and a decade since she first began the project, Karl Smith speaks to Margaret Chardiet about the unique power of noise, the peculiar vulgarity of human existence and the meaning of contact