Singer-songwriter Boo Hewerdine is blogging for TMM in the run-up to his first studio album with a full band in 10 years. This time, Boo talks us through his encounters with famous people.
Virgins will be released on October 19 and the band will support the single with a massive six-week jaunt from the beginning of next month.
The Isle of Lewis has given birth to many a celebrated writer and musician – Ian Crichton Smith, Alasdair White, Alyth... and most recently Stornoway troubadour The Boy Who Trapped The Sun, aka Colin MacLeod.
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Sep 28, 2009 • There's real talent here, but there's not enough good material to fill a whole album.
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Sep 25, 2009 • "It seems we all spend the first part of our lives coming together and then we spend the second half of our life taking it apart again; relearning how to do things and stop making all the same stupid mistakes."
Boo's back! In the first of his new series of exclusive blogs he reveals all about his upcoming album (his first with a full band in 10 years) and upcoming tour, as well as the model who appears on his album cover.
In news that will please anyone forced to listen to Radio One all day, the pop princess says that she has "no plans to make another album" when her contract with EMI comes to an end.
There's something charmingly honest about Californian duo Girls that disarms most possible criticisms. It all adds up to one of the year's most immersive debut albums.
In terms of songwriting Mumford & Sons manage to neatly sidestep the genre’s traps of high-romanticising and overly wordy verses.
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Sep 23, 2009 • Muse have never been ones to shy away from the extravagant, so it should come as no surprise to learn that The Resistance looks at the most overblown concepts ever committed to record by a contemporary rock group.
New Worlds is an exciting step for one of Britain's brightest talents. Up next for Hatherley: cracking the mainstream.
Rooney (a massive ‘Phonics fan) was so inspired by new album Keep Calm and Carry On that it has made him an even better footballer – or so claims Kelly Jones.
