23 JANUARY It’s been an age since we saw just Bruce Foxton’s name on the billboards. Aside from his post-Jam solo album, 1984’s Touch Sensitive, and a string of LPs with Russell Hastings, the bassist

I went to art school to be a painter. Mick Jones went to art school to put a band together. My friend was invited to try out as drummer for Mick’s band, London SS, and I went to support him. They drag

What’s it like to be in a band at the very beginning of their career – only to leave before things take off? We ask early members of Deftones, Papa Roach, Trivium and more

Simon Neil leads a back on top Biffy ...

By the time I’m 16, I am starting to develop a certain aesthetic revolving around beat literature and beat poetry. I’m starting to like Baudelaire, Rimbaud, so there’s a certain whiff of decadence in

Following Richey Edwards’ disappearance and the “commercial disaster” of The Holy Bible , the MANIC STREET PREACHERS were told that this is the end. Instead, they roared back with an unassailable anthem heralding one of the biggest British albums of the ’90s. Sam Richards celebrates 30 years of Everything Must Go : “It was the most spectacular feeling,” says Nicky Wire. “That period when you go over the top...”