PAUL LESTER
Take one flamboyant frontman possessed of a voice capable of leaping between octaves with a single bound and a guitarist hailed as the most gifted of his generation (give or take Blur’s graham coxon), and you’ve got Mcalmont & Butler. the duo’s symphonic retro-pop single Yes reached no. 8 in 1995 and suggested they were destined for sustained, glittering success. the fact is, by the end of ‘95, following one further hit with You Do (no. 17), M&B were no more, leaving the vivacious vocalist (that’ll be David Mcalmont) and inventive guitarist (take a bow, suede’s Bernard Butler) to go their separate ways. there was a brief reunion with the Bring It Back album in 2002, and that was it. so… what happened?