Michael Nyman

Independent on Sunday - one of the pop/rock albums of the year 2009

three truly outstanding albums rose above the morass of quite-goodness…

Dec 27th, 2009 Continue reading this article »

Paul Morley's Showing Off... Michael Nyman and David McAlmont

Paul Morley meets Michael Nyman and David McAlmont, and explains why they would be the anti-Cowell Christmas No 1 in his world… and they give an exclusive festive performance…

Click here to watch the exclusive live performance of ‘The Coldest Place on Earth’ and the title track of the album ‘The Glare’

Dec 25th, 2009 Continue reading this article »

THE WORD - "The Word office's current favourites" - The Glare

Kate Mossman writes, in the January edition of The Word magazine…

“I’m still a bit stunned by David McAlmont and Michael Nyman’s The Glare - how McAlmont ever thought to write those strange, complicated uplifting tunes over the top of Nyman’s soundtracks; how Nyman himself was clever enough to leave him to it.

I saw them performing it at a one-off gig at London’s Union Chapel and I really hope it gets more airings.

Dec 3rd, 2009 Continue reading this article »