Muso

Gauci got hitched last March to long-term muso love Hamish Cowan, whom she was introduced to by Ian "Dicko" Dickson. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I did get the "muso" vibe on a first reading, I have to say. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

It turns out Chaske is a rock 'muso' and I just had the thought he might well be able to play Michael - some of the similarities in their pics are uncanny! ❋ Unknown (2006)

In the olden days, a good record shop would have the stuff you wanted and a knowledgeable "muso" behind the desk who could introduce you to something different that you wanted to share. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is not an issue of Apple staff needing vacation .... "muso:" New phones yes - but who invented the first one? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Friday night BBC4, traditional home of the rewarding muso doc, fabulous archive trawls and generally celebrating the art of making a terrific noise, is the perfect place for this type of thing. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Hell, even if you do ask these sort of questions of any book that comes along, the binary quality of selection rather than evaluation carries a certain … muso priggishness. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

I suspect uncompromising negativity generally adds to any air of muso truculence ascribed by the reader. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

Unfortunately, Adrian Utley is not in attendance to tell me his life story, but years later as an editor at URB magazine, I do a candid interview with him and he speaks of his own fascinating life as a muso. ❋ Michael Vazquez (2011)

As a muso, ok, a drummer, I tend to think of the pattern and rhythm of the words that I use, not the role music can play in establishing tone, character and atmosphere. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I regularly sit in the pit of amateur musical societies as a muso. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The inspiration for this may well have come from Eldon's stage act as a young muso, which he says consisted of "singing and moving around like a chemistry teacher on potassium". ❋ Unknown (2010)

At 25, Orianthi is less teen-TV titan than seasoned muso, with a serious track record and the CV of an axe-wielding journeyman. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Bruni, 43, is fighting rumors she is shacked up with French muso Benjamin Biolay who is six years her junior. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Wonder's prone to muso self-indulgence, but he must have got the "play the hits" memo because they come without much interruption: Uptight, Sir Duke, a tender cover of Michael Jackson's Human Nature and a song that could be a theme tune for this remarkable weekend: Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

These days, the default configuration for your average alternative act is more likely to be the trio? laptop, keyboards, vocals? the duo (flamboyant frontperson plus poker-faced muso sidekick on keys), or the solo male or (more likely) female. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Good Foot, LondonAn all-new night of all-old jams, The Good Foot is a funk and rare groove shakedown playing the kind of scintillating sonics that are just as much fun to scratch your beard to in a knowledgable muso way as they are to cut some serious rug to. ❋ Patric Baird (2010)