In conversation: flo

From pop star to Kitchen Disco icon, Sophie Ellis-Bextor has brought joy to lives and homes across the globe. She talks to Rosamund Dean about marriage, menopause and why the music must go on

‘If you want tough, I’ll give you tough…” Following a hiatus from Bloc Party, the platinum-selling group that made Kele Okereke an icon of British 2000s rock, the frontman began work on his first solo

From the noisy streets, community cafés and surprisingly verdant cemeteries of Southeast London have risen CAROLINE : a confoundingly brilliant eight-piece band with no obvious frontperson, fusing choral folk with fractured post-rock and experimental pop. As Sam Richards discovers, they haven’t made life easy for themselves. “But there has to be a vulnerability of some sort. Otherwise, what’s the point?”

The Sugababes are still one of the most beloved pop groups in Britain – but they admit they faced “obstacles” during their comeback without having the famous band name. Fans were left gobsmacked in 20

Close harmonies, smooth grooves, infighting and ‘the bag’: making an album on stage

DONNA LLEWELYN, 40 I am called the Queen of Cardiff and I am very famous! I picked that nickname up from the public because I used to sell friendship bracelets. I love it! It was a joke from my friend