Stuart Braithwaite

Perry Como, Ken Dodd, Status Quo. Not names you’d expect to see on the same page, or come to that, on these pages at all. Soft Cell’s Dave Ball reveals the early influences that shaped him.

From Wellington to Melbourne to Sydney to London to Los Angeles. Pip Brown, aka Ladyhawke, settles down for just about long enough to talk through some of the things that have shaped her along the way 

Lamb’s Lou Rhodes takes us on a winding road through a few of her formative influences

Ex-Air man Nicolas Godin talks us through the often refined inspirations for ‘Contrepoint’, his new solo album

We asked Saint Etienne’s Sarah Cracknell about her formative influences. She makes some rather inspired choices…