Britain’s fastest-rising rock band discusses music and visuals

Boots No 7 or Fairlight Series 3? Tony Reed trades fashion tips with the Duran and Arcadia ivory-tinkler

Jim Betteridge, The Damned and the man who made Eloise

Shure EC2/58 radio mic

Sounds without the cables

DREAM MACHINE: roland space echo

the roland space echo lives - with the help of a little modern technology

Hughes & Kettner Tubeman Preamp

This dedicated guitar preamp benefits from hybrid tube circuitry, an integral speaker simulator and the ability to impersonate four quite different styles of amplifier.

Level 42's Svengali gets his comeuppance

Trish McGrath gets the lowdown on a whole stack of readers' own synth sounds, while Paul Wiffen gives an appraisal of a new library of samples for the Ensoniq Mirage.

cooling out in the South of France

Mixing The Cure

Live Music for the Hi-Tech Musician

Innovators of The Kit and the Music Percussion Computer, MPC explain their approach and hint at some new products to come.

A Short History of British PA

British PA

Vintage technology strikes back

...Including The A-Z of Analogue

You may remember the Minimoog and the ARP Odyssey, but when was the first time you saw an EMS VCS3? Annabel Scott travels back to the days of VCAs, VCFs and non-programmability.

Wayne Hussey divulges all about the gear behind the Gothic grind

The Making Of A New Music Supremo

Philip Glass is the best known, and certainly the best paid, contemporary new music composer. In London for performances of his music for the films Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi, he talked to Mark J. Prendergast.

what's missing in A Cappella

Could You Be A Guitar Tech?

What in the name of Prince is Reverb and how can it help your music?

and what can it do for you, your sound, and your music?

Tony Horkins lays his hands on Tom, Alanna and Joe and squeezes out the technical secrets

In 1984, The Blue Nile released an album widely hailed as the finest debut LP of recent years. After five years of silence, they've produced another masterpiece in Hats. Paul Ireson talks to the men behind two of the decade's finest records.