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Richard Hawley has been on his fellow musicians' radar for donkey's years. Among the members of his not-so-teenage fan club are Jarvis Cocker and the Arctic Monkeys, Thom Yorke, Chris Martin, Robbie Williams, Scott Walker and Nancy Sinatra. With a new album under his belt, Hawley tells Brian Boyd why he's glad people have had to discover his music for themselves
Going places
With a new, exuberant album to promote, Australian combo Architecture in Helsinki has been building bridges with music festivals around the world. Jim Carroll gets in a few words between gigs with founder Cameron Bird.
Is the world finally ready for Guns N'Roses' Democracy?
Here's the joke: We have been waiting so long (13 years and counting) for Guns N' Roses to release Chinese Democracy that there will probably be democracy in China by the time the album comes out. Which will probably mean they'll have to change the title, which will probably mean another delay, etc.
