Bob Fischer

She was – and soon will be again – the enigmatic chanteuse with Black Box Recorder. In the meantime, Sarah Nixey’s new solo album ‘Sea Fever’, created on the coastline of her native Dorset, is a beautiful, wintry rumination on change and loss

In 1977, ‘I Robot’ propelled The Alan Parsons Project to global success, all crisp disco beats and futuristic arrangements. Five decades on, with a deluxe reissue on the shelves, the man himself looks back fondly on “the rise of the machine”

In 1975, the Central Office of Information secretly produced the chilling ‘Protect And Survive’ series of public information films, to be broadcast on British TV in the event of an imminent nuclear war. And the composer of its jingle, potentially the final piece of music the country would ever hear? The BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s Roger Limb

By the mid-1980s, the threat of nuclear annihilation was dominating British culture. Actor Reece Dinsdale and film editor John Cary look back at their contributions to two keystones of the Cold War aesthetic – ‘Threads’ and ‘When The Wind Blows’

This year marks the centenary of Tristram Cary’s birth. Regarded as the father of British electronic music, it’s……

What do you get if you combine Gong’s flamboyant guitarist, an internationally renowned bagpipe builder and a six-time world snooker champion? The joyous friendships behind The Utopia Strong, whose third studio album, ‘Doperider’, is an occult-flavoured delight

Californian trio Automatic channel 21st century angst into brilliantly effervescent synth/post-punk nuggets – and somehow still find time……

It’s 46 years since Robin Scott slipped into the sharp suits of his M alter ego and stormed the charts worldwide with ‘Pop Muzik’. Now, for the first time since 1982, he has revived that singular initial for his new album