New Music Mart In The Shops

Hey Guys and Gals, just to let you know that the new Music Mart is in the shops today... We feature a guide to converting your PC for life on the road – making all those softsynths and backing tracks available for your live sets, there’s an overview of the best budget SPL meters, an assessment of what Value For Money really means when you’re buying a guitar as well as looking at some of the best new kit around in our Performance, Production and PC Musician review sections.

In the Backstage Bar - as you can see from our front cover - we’ve got a great interview with Peter Gabriel – where he talks about some of his unusual concepts for touring, the future of recording deals and internet betting. We also chat with Richard Hawley, who’s Coles Corner LP has put him firmly on the musical radar in the last year, ex-‘Stone Bill Wyman – who guides us through his severely under-rated solo career and talks about what began his obsession with bass guitar and we chat to Coldcut about the long-standing tenure as chief innovators in electronica, sample manipulation and Audio-Visual integration.
We’ll also be looking at the best gigs, LPs, DVDs and Books coming up in the next month, as well as listing our favourite new music in the Podblasting section.

Meanwhile in the office, my inbox is bulging with April's magazine - Petra's just mailed in Mystery Jets and Brakes interviews, David's gone DVD review crazy, Mogwai are in the bag courtesy of Gal... So everything's shaping up nicely.

And I'm quite happily listening to the majestic Sigur Ros... God, I'm looking forward to their gigs next month. Have a good weekend one and all. See you next week.

Or maybe I'll post a playlist for the weekend later...

John.