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Musicians’ guide: How to make it in the music industry

Category: Arts and entertainment

The List
27 November 2008
Want to make it in music? Fancy yourself as The Next Big Thing? Claire Sawers and Malcolm Jack track down nine very different people currently working in the industry and quiz them on just what they do and how they do it.

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Build Your Own Bond Movie

Category: Film

 The List
30 October 2008
Exotic locations
Cuban beaches, Jamaican waterfalls, floating Indian palaces - the jet setting super-spy notches up an average of three countries per film,

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Aimee Mann

Category: Interviews

Metro
22 October 2008
Five questions for…
AIMEE MANN
Perhaps best known for her Grammy-nominated hit Save Me on the Magnolia soundtrack, downbeat, thoughtful rocker Aimee Mann releases new single Thirty One Today next week.

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Jeremy Hardy

Category: Interviews

 
 

The Sunday Times
22 August 2004
My Edinburgh
The former Perrier award-winner Hardy gave up his life as a “bar-room hellraiser” to pursue a career in stand-up 20 years ago

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Women who knit a profit from witty arts and crafts

Category: Lifestyle

Carrie Maclennan and Clare Nicolson, photo by Justin Griffiths-Williams

 

The Sunday Times
12 October 2008
Cross-stitch and embroidery - with an added modern sense of fun - are a booming business, finds Claire Sawers

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United by the frill of business

Category: Lifestyle

 

 
The Sunday Times
10 December 2006
The Two of Us: Clare Thommen and Fiona McLean, directors of Boudiche 

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Ruby Wax

Category: Interviews

The Sunday Times
17 August 2008
Wax drags neuroses out of the closet
With her new stage show, Ruby Wax has dropped the loud-mouthed persona to tackle the stigma attached to mental illness

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New tricks - Magic on the Fringe

Category: Arts and entertainment

The List
05 August 2008
Conjuring tricks and card chicanery may have long disappeared from our tellies, but as Claire Sawers discovers, the appeal of stage magic has never really gone away

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Pajama Men - Night moves

Category: Arts and entertainment

The List
31 July 2008
Their brand of unique, unhinged comedy has had critics and judges raving about the Pajama Men. Claire Sawers finds that they’re keeping the silly wigs firmly in the bag

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Health Warning

Category: Lifestyle

The List
07 August 2008
Simon Singh has upset many people with his damning views on holistic treatment. Claire Sawers asks if he has his finger on the pulse of alternative therapy

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