Richard Walmsley enquires into a smooth operation

producer of Sade, Everything But The Girl and more speaks acoustic-wise

Janet Angus talks to Robin about practically everything.

Chrysta Jones & Mike McDermot

Working Week take a break to chat to Tony Reed on the subjects of pop, politics, and the importance of dance.

Where big band Jazz meets hi-tech production. Richard Walmsley looks beneath the Matt gloss.

Richard Walmsley takes a ride with BSA down the R'n'B route and finds out how a green band avoid the Blues

Gordon Matthewman's interests in hi-tech and his horn have found him in some of the most unlikely musical settings with his project Blow. Simon Trask blows another man's trumpet.

Declaring Independence

They've been on CBS, they run their own company called Dry Communications, and they've learned a thing or two: they are a band called Thomas Lang. Phil Ward meets the Scousers with a Dry sense of humour.

Justifiably unwilling to be written off as just another funk act, Loose Ends talk tactics, technique and technology into Tim Goodyer's Walkman mic.

Arrested whilst gigging with a bunch of jazz musicians in Paris, Sting talks to Paul Tingen about his new album, the inadequacies of high technology, and the future of The Police.

Is there more to Britain's latest megastars than a barrel-load of hype, a few jars of hair gel and a clever Giorgio Moroder production job? After talking to the band, Tim Goodyer thinks there is.

Sophie and Peter Johnston

If the major labels let you down and you're writing sophisticated electro-pop, forming your own record company is one way of getting your message across. Annabel Scott meets a remarkable brother-and-sister duo.

Ben and Trace talk dirty

This Roland Gift is nothing to do with the competition, says Mark Cordery

Who helped make Climie Fisher's single a hit? And the Pet Shop Boys', and Depeche Mode's, and Bananarama's? David Bradwell investigates the latest action in the Stock, Aitken & Waterman production stable.

You almost certainly haven't heard of him, but this man is one of the most inventive composers, arrangers and producers in modern Japan. Tim Goodyer listens to what he has to say.

Svelte, chic, sophisticated, smooth chanteuse Jim Betteridge takes Sade to the fade

Bryan Ferry

You know all those classic sixties and seventies songs you keep hearing on TV ads these days? Well, almost every one you hear is not in fact the original recording but a completely new version. To give you an idea of how such reconstructions are produced, Nigel Beaham-Powell of Streets Ahead Music Productions recounts how he went about reproducing a Bryan Ferry track.

Yet again Deevoy confuses success and excess

Arranger

Lone arranger Richard Walmsley analyses the profession's pros and cons

The baton passes to Richard 'Luke' Walmsley and the beat goes on

A drum is a drum is a drum — so why shouldn't a drum kit player turn to other percussion...

can you tell a real drummer?

The World's Best Singers

nominated and described by Sade, Anne Pigalle, Helen Terry, Tracy Thorn (Everything But The Girl), Julie Roberts (Working Week)