Interviews

Read RHP's interview with up and coming R&B artist Chosen Effect. Make sure you watch the new single Liar Liar below!

She’s a Kiwi made good in the Motherland - Suraya Singh is the editor of the ‘Filament’, a magazine for women... with a difference. It’s been described as a glossy pages dinner party, full of titillation for the mind and just as importantly, for the libido. You see, Filament is not just a good read; it’s a feast for eyes too, well it’s a feast if you like dining on hot young fellas. Hard bodied examples of the male physique adorn the pages, brooding young bucks, skin shimmering and eyes locked on the reader.

Well, it’s that time of year. The stockings are out, everybody’s rushing around getting ready and there’s a lot of love in the air. The layman might think we’re talking about Christmas… but no, we’re talking PoleCandy, baby...

He’s been a constant on the Australian music landscape for a decade, but his ability to evolve and re-invent himself has assured an ongoing relevance that eludes most artists. Paul Dempsey is a once in a generation talent; the Something For Kate front man and recently confirmed solo star has made his fair contribution to the Australian soundtrack and he’s done it with a quiet humility and wry smile...

Their bio reads like a wish list for young band’s entering the tumultuous waters of the indie-rock ocean. In only few short year’s Brisbane’s Hungry Kids Of Hungary have amassed more runs than Bradman and their ascension toward the glittering lights of success seems set to continue...

For years he would wake up, get out of bed, and head off to work where he was responsible for marketing some of the hottest porn stars in the world… not a bad gig! As head of adult film distributor Calvista, marketing guru, Rod Godwin travelled in some pretty exciting circles and rubbed shoulders and possibly other body parts with some of the planets sexiest super stars, so when the juggernaut lifestyle brand, Sexpo was in need of a new GM, it made sense that Godwin got the call...

Melbourne’s best kept secret is out of the bag, and her status is now official. For the last ten years, Montana has been lighting up dance venues around Melbourne and funnily enough the blessed lads of Burn City have kept her amazing physique, her seductive moves and her delicious confidence on the down low - no doubt trying to keep this luscious vixen all to themselves.

In an age where viral videos and gaming soundtracks can mean more than label clout and record sales, Sick Puppies are leaders in the field of cross marketing and maximisation of musical opportunities. The Sydney three-piece blew up globally a few years ago with that free hugs video on YouTube; now, fifty million views later the band is an established powerhouse in the North American heavy music market and trading hard on some good breaks.

The world’s getting faster, bigger, tougher, more chaotic, more intimidating, more challenging – so is it any wonder we have less and less time for ourselves? Dating events are hardly new real estate but there has been a recognizable increase in their popularity; as our lives get ever more stressful that trend looks set to continue...

When Hugh Sheridan got his big break, never in his wildest dreams would he have imagined it would have lead to stardom, Logies and video shoots with sexy women and sand dunes as far as the eye can see. Packed To The Rafters has become a bona fide hit and for Sheridan who plays Ben Rafter in the show, it’s opened doors to a whole new world.

He was the big haired, big voiced winner of the inaugural Australian Idol and he’s gone on to become Australian Idol's most successful pin-up boy. Along with the likes of Shannon Noll, Damien Leth and Jessica Mauboy, Guy Sebastian has ridden the Idol fast track to fame and fortune...

Folk music hasn’t had the coolest rep of late; in fact, it hasn’t really been the in fashion since the heady days of free love and flower power when artists like Joan Baez and Bob Dylan were packing theatres around the world... well the times... they are a-changin’. With their roots in high school jams and bedroom songsmithing, Northern Beaches duo Georgia Fair are bringing folky back with their dual guitar dreamscapes, enticing vocal delivery and a catchy soundtrack to a high profile Big M milk campaign...

Dallas Frasca’s music, like so many other things about her, is wonderfully ramshackle. There is a kind of organic structure to the chaos that writhes atop her bastardised brand of blues and soul. Her powerhouse husk is an ominous tool, a voice larger than life and every bit as intense. Along with her long-time string slinger Jeff Curran, Frasca creates music that should be listened to while shooting cans, smashing moonshine or starting fights in found bars along lost highways.

He’s the antihero of the popular music world. More Wurzel Gummage than Pete Wentz, and infinitely more talented than his preened peers, Newton Faulkner is enjoying the ride. Speaking down the line from his central London flat, the dread-locked singer/songwriter meanders through the conversation with a hospitable humility that’s in keeping with his free-love aesthetic.

Along with the likes of Dita Von Teese and Masuimi Max, American fetish model and actress, Emily Marilyn is trailblazing down the highway opened half a century ago by the timeless talent of Bettie Page. The American brunette sports the kind of curves that make latex so very, very popular; her hourglass figure has filled out some of the hottest fetish fashion creations on the planet and her dark beauty has seen her grace the pages of the world’s most esteemed alternative press.