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Artists illuminate their non-musical passions
Meemo Comma, aka Lara Rix-Martin, speaks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about how the Strugatsky brothers' 1971 Soviet sci-fi Roadside Picnic formed the source material of her new album Decimation Of I, and the lessons she's learned from wider Russian science fiction
To see himself through lockdown, James Dean Bradfield of the Manic Street Preachers has been compiling tailor-made crossword puzzles for his family and friends. He tells Patrick Clarke about the therapeutic effects and extreme cultural wormholes they can inspire. Plus, solve an exclusive '80s indie crossword compiled by JDB himself!
When once he would cane it like there was no tomorrow, Jason Williamson now prefers to bake banana bread in the kitchen and lift weights in his garden. Here, the Sleaford Mods man runs JR Moores through the kind of baking advice you don't get from Mary Berry
Andrew Mueller is a travel writer, foreign correspondent, columnist, pundit and author. He has also been a rock critic for donkey's and has been in a country rock band The Blazing Zoo for nigh on a decade. We asked him if the former had given him any insights into the latter...
In the second of our series of Factory Floor features, drummer Gabe Gurnsey tells us about the pleasures, pongs and musical potential of his English bulldog, Vince. Photos by Anna Stroe, classic album covers feat. Vince by Gurnsey
In Cabaret Voltaire, Chris Watson used tape loops and field recordings as a pioneer of industrial music. Now, he is a sound recordist for BBC nature programmes who also works on installations, films and his own albums. He speaks to Luke Turner about trying to capture the sound of the world in a very noisy modern age
Mary Epworth's Twitter profile is three words long. It reads 'I like hares'. Here, the singer-songwriter and self-confessed "wildlife-obsessive" talks to John Freeman about the "otherworldly, but hugely misunderstood" mammal.
Steve Ignorant now lives in North Norfolk and volunteers as a crew member on the independent Sea Palling lifeboat. Here, he tells Luke Turner about his work on the choppy grey waters. Photo thanks to Damon Allen Davison
While recording his new album with Richard Hawley in Sheffield, the legend who is Mr Duane Eddy fell in love with the city and his surroundings. Here he tells Luke Turner about his new infatuation, chilli-filled Yorkshire pudding, and why Hawley should be mayor
Intrepid man of pedal and metal Jamie Thomson tells the tale of his mission to cycle to the Roadburn Festival: featuring ferries, dykes, windmills, heaviosity, rude signage, useless national cycle trails, and 345 cheese & ham toasties
Neither north nor south, the English Midlands are a confusing place bisected by railways and the M1 and A1. Some would say the Midlands are hard to love. Today, local boys House Of Lords and Henry Dartnall of Young Knives give us a guide. Pic by Cat Stevens.
Our Quietus At Leisure series brings you Idlewild frontman Roddy Woomble's guide to hillwalking - complete with solitude, serenity and flesh-eating midges. PLUS - see the video for his new single 'Roll Along', which is out now
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