Bassist Sara Lee and guitar player Andy Gill discuss sonic invention and positive discrimination.

Sex and drugs and sausage roll?

The Beat goes on and to New York where Paul Gallotta met up with Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger

An exclusive look inside Genesis' private studio retreat deep in the heart of Surrey.

Could you make music using only samples from natural sources? Paul Tingen talks to a band who've done just that in an attempt to draw attention to our environment.

From the band who made RadarLove

Chris Maillard chews the cud with the up and coming C&W—crossover cowpunchers.

Burlesque bourbons and funny folk

Denizens of space rock, 15 years of hard work, and the band around whom legends spring almost daily, Hawkwind are planning a new strategy for 1984 with a new stage show Earth Ritual, Dave Brock and Huw Lloyd Langton explain the Hawkwind rejuvenation to Tim Oakes.

Hitmakers Heaven 17 reveal how they've harnessed the hardware on How Men Are.

DATA: Martyn Ware/new album/Synclavier keyboard/digital technique... HARD COPY

Martyn Ware talks about money and the musician. Make £50,000 without playing a note.

The Luxury Gap boys pat themselves on the back after recording their fourth album, 'Pleasure One'. Tim Goodyer finds out how it was done, and discovers the threesome may soon be playing their first-ever concerts.

Crushed by the wheels of technology?

Martyn Ware flatters Fairlights

From penthouse to pavement and back again, Heaven 17 have seen pop finance from both sides. Will their latest album, Pleasure 1, put them back in the black? Tony Reed opens the account...

'If you can't come from Chicago, come from Scotland', reasons Tony Reed

'What's the Colour of Money?' was one of last year's most inventive hit singles, but since then, little has been heard from Mark Rogers. Tim Goodyer talks to him as the first HB album is released.

on playing live, major labels and the prospect of being famous

Face to face with Hue - or is it Cry?

brothers patrick and gregory reflect on the pitfalls of early success

Northern tape manipulators