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M People

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Remixing: The DJ's DJ

Report and Interview by Push, Andrew Smith, Melody Maker, 18 August 1990

A couple of years ago, the success of DJ-based groups such as M/A/R/R/S, Coldcut, S'Express and Bomb The Bass heralded a new musical era. Now, ...

Girls on Song

Report and Interview by Lucy O'Brien, Mixmag, June 1992

"IT'S JUST tinkly pianos and wailing slags," was how 808 State once summed up the contribution of female vocalists to house music. If it wasn't ...

M-People: La Villette, Paris

Live Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 17 July 1993

THE 20TH anniversary party for Europe's premier radical newspaper, Liberation, and even Pepe Le Punk would have been silenced by the fun. ...

M People, Evolution, Tyrrel Corporation: The Academy, Manchester

Live Review by Lisa Verrico, Mixmag, December 1993

UNLESS YOU'VE spent the last six months in an Iraqi jail, you'll have noticed M People. Mike Pickering's house-music-goes-pop combo has grown from a personal ...

M People: Brixton Academy, London

Live Review by Paul Sexton, The Times, 1 March 1994

THE SELECTION of M People as Best Dance Act in the 1994 Brit Awards was proof that success does come to those who wait. Probably ...

M People: People Get Ready!

Report and Interview by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 5 March 1994

M PEOPLE are the darlings of hip clubbers and pop kids alike, recent Brits winners, and THE crossover band from club culture who can simply ...

M People: Elegant slumming now a low dive

Report by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 16 September 1994

The Mercury Music Prize was intended to reward and foster innovation. For a couple of years, all went well — and then M People came ...

Now the Mercury rises

Report by Jon Savage, The Guardian, 16 September 1994

Jon Savage sees the north take its regional revenge ...

M People

Profile and Interview by David Toop, The Face, December 1994

THE "DISCO SUCKS" MENTALITY REARS ITS UGLY HEAD AGAIN. JUST AS M PEOPLE'S STAR REACHES ITS ZENITH, THEIR AWARD-WINNING SHEEN BURNING BRIGHT, THE MUSIC WORLD DISSENT ...

M People: People in the House

Profile and Interview by Calvin Bush, i-D, December 1994

i-D's BEST OF British pop special starts with M People. Winners of this year's prestigious Mercury Music Prize, like fellow Britpop protagonists Blur and the ...

M People: Swing Out Citrus

Interview by John Harris, New Musical Express, 10 December 1994

M PEOPLE make timeless pop songs, have a genuine cool soul singer and a classic album that won them the Mercury Music Award — and ...

M People: Bizarre Fruit (DeConstruction)

Review by Stephen Dalton, Vox, January 1995

Excess baggage ...

M People: Workers' Playtime

Interview by Stuart Maconie, Q, February 1996

Grass-roots devotion runs deep when it comes to M People: the Mercury-scooping dance behemoth for the discerning disco-bobulator. "Sharon and Tracy have always had more ...

M People: Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, London

Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 29 June 1996

HAIRDO WELL! ...

M People: Fresco (BMG 74321 52490 £14.49)

Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 10 October 1997

Listen without prejudice ...

Just Pedestrian — M People, Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 29 November 1997

M People may do a lot for Peugeot, but Caroline Sullivan is not moved ...

see also Hot House

see also Quando Quango

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