End of Term recently caught up with 17-year-old Nathan Sykes, youngest member of the UK’s latest chart-topping boy band, The Wanted. WORDS: ROSALIND TULLOCH GIVEN YOU RECENTLY HAD A NUMBER ONE HIT... HOW DID YOU GET ON WITH YOUR A LEVELS? I was really nervous cos I’ve only been at school for pretty much one term during the last year! I didn’t really get to do as much revision as I would have liked and, when it came to exams, I had no exam practice and was massively unprepared. So I am very surprised that I passed. I was really proud cos I got full marks in my music performance

The Scottish songstress, who recently took over the airwaves with her debut single ‘Hello’, is a big fan of the magazine that helped her along the way – yes, we mean End of Term! WORDS: ROSALIND TULLOCH Back in 2008 End of Term discovered an amazing ‘unsigned’ singer-songwriter performing at the Scotcampus freshers festival in Glasgow. Having fallen in love with her acoustic sound, we decided to get Carrie MacDonald, then 21, into a recording studio to record her first demo album – and ran a feature on the process in our Spring 2009 issue. In fact, Carrie’s cropped u

End of Term recently caught up with Kyle Falconer, lead singer of infamous Dundee band, The View, to find out what they have planned for the future... WORDS: HANNAH PHILLIPS 2010 was your fourth year at T in the Park. Why do you keep going back? Because it’s T in the Park! Every time we’ve gone, the number of people have increased. We’ve been going since we were young, so it’s a big day for us. What’s better: festival or touring? Well, when you’re doing the festivals it’s like you’re touring because you’re going from one festival to the next one. Festival