David McAlmont

Blink an eye, and twenty years later, after a few false starts and a zillion side projects, it took a charity gig to bring McAlmont and Butler as a duo smack bang back in to the public eye.

The 2002 release Bring It Back was McAlmont and Butler's final attempt at making their bickering vocal/guitar pairing work but favourable reviews failed to loft it higher than No 18 in the chart.

Having debuted his startling larynx in early 1990s art-soul duo Thieves covering Scritti Politti and the Cocteau Twins he went on to form McAlmont and Butler with former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler then work with film composer David Arnold.

McAlmont & Nyman @ Union Chapel, London

London, UK

"My mother had a thing about men," explains David McAlmont. "I like women." He's talking about his taste in music, of course. Gracefully placing a hand on his hip, he strikes a Vogue pose and shudders to the blossoming jazz rhythm, doing little to hide the embattled but regal diva within. Best known for a s

Hifi Sean and David McAlmont: Band On The Wall, Manchester, UK