Best known for editing Teletext’s music pages Planet Sound in the 2000s, John Earls has also written about pop for the Sunday People, News Of The World, Daily Star and NME. This issue, he Zoom calls cover star Gary Numan and the returning Gary Kemp, while also helming our reissues reviews section.
Paul Kirkley makes his living from interviewing famous people with much more interesting and glamorous lives than his own. He is also, to the best of his knowledge, the only paid TV critic for a national supermarket chain. This issue, he checks in with Marti Pellow to hear about the stream-of-consciousness recording sessions behind his new studio album, Stargazer.