Almost 15 months ago, just across town from here, Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders delivered one of the best gigs of last year. That show, at the Fulford

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Times are certainly hard for independent festivals as several more continue to bite the dust due to severe financial pressures, but Deer Shed just goes from

Tall Child has been revealed as the winner of the esteemed Green Man Rising Competition 2026, presented by Green Man and The Green

In less than four weeks time, Europe’s largest outdoor festival the Love Supreme Jazz Festival will return to the delightful surroundings of Glynde Place for

In one of the last lines in the film Blue Velvet, Sandy Williams (Laura Dern) is asking the question. And forty years after its original release David Lynch’s

When sat on the BBC Breakfast TV couch last week, an extremely personable Colin Blunstone said with a delightfully straight face that he still wasn’t fully

During ‘La Forme’ and as this dizzying two-hour spectacle of sound and vision hurtles headlong towards its automated denouement, the continuing evolution of

He just came down from the Isle of Eigg. But contrary to popular belief inside The Attic, he was not in the old H-reg Hymer motorhome that is parked right

Massive Attack have today released their first music in 10 years. It’s a collaboration with Tom Waits titled ‘Boots on the Ground’ and it comes with an

The words belong to ‘The Pine on the Corner,’ the final song on Bibi Club’s third album, Amaro, and fittingly, it brings to a close this thrilling set. It is

Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders announce the release of their new album, Liquid Donnon which is due out 12th June on Riot

And so, the floor is now all yours, you seven good men of Ceredigion. Tai Haf Heb Drigolyn proceed to burn through a set that bursts at the creative seams

It’s a family affair. Joan Shelley is accompanied tonight by her partner Nathan Salsburg, who has already put in a sterling shift in discharging his opening

Nearly half a century after it had first appeared on Talking Heads’ third studio album, Fear of Music, David Byrne sings these words from the song ‘Heaven.’

Love Supreme Jazz Festival - Europe’s biggest greenfield jazz festival – returns this year for its 13th annual edition and today has announced 25 more great

It is now more than a quarter of a century since I first caught Ron Sexsmith in concert. The time was early in the new millennium; the place was the original,

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It is a mighty long way from the Ottoman Empire of the early 20th century to the present-day city of Leeds. But there is a line connecting both of these times

Time was when Deer Shed Festival used to shut up shop at 4pm on a Sunday afternoon. Those days have long since gone. Now Baldersby Park goes right on into the

Wales’s largest music, science, and arts festival, Green Man – where tickets sold out 11 months before the event started and when no acts had even been

This performance by Jessica Pratt was originally scheduled for last November but had to be cancelled due to illness. But having waited eight long months to

The day begins with news that Nick Cave had donated 2,000 books from his personal collection to a bookshop in Hove in England, and ends about 15 minutes

Returning for the second day of this year’s Deer Shed Festival, it’s a drive-in Saturday. Arriving to hear the last strains of Tommy WÁ’s soulful ‘God Loves

Punk is not dead. And neither is post-punk. Nor any of their many variants. They live on at Forever Now. The festival offers a gateway to a musical past and

Brian Wilson, founding member and leading creative force of the Beach Boys, has passed away at the age of 82. He was widely regarded as one of the most influent

They are Jeffrey Alexander (guitar and vocals) and Scott Verrastro (drums), who both hail from Philadelphia, the fourth largest city in the United States of

At the recent London premiere of the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, the star of the film Timothée Chalamet arrived for the event on a

The Jesus Lizard are back. They have never really been away, in truth. Well, OK, the hugely influential post-hardcore band who had formed in Austin, Texas in

2025 is an incredibly special year for Please Please You. It marks the 20th anniversary for the York-based live music promoter. On the 16th of July 2005, Joe

At a rough, well OK, an exact count I have been to 55 gigs and six music festivals in 2024, from the Brecon Beacons to Berlin and from Leeds to London. They

It is an absolute pleasure and something of a relief to see and hear Michael Head before us tonight, looking and sounding so well. Having seen the Liverpool

The mighty Moseley Folk & Arts has gone and done it again. The ever-popular Midlands’ festival has just revealed its first official headline act for 2025

The ever-wonderful Mostly Jazz Funk & Soul Festival has just announced its third headliner. The highly revered electronic dance duo Maribou State will be

In life, it is said, all good things must come to an end. And that old proverb certainly rings true in the case of METZ. At the end of their current tour of

The consistently excellent Deer Shed Festival has just announced their first bookings for their 15th annual edition which will take place in the customary

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In 1997 on what was his 30th album, Time Out of Mind, Bob Dylan sang this line as he reflected upon his own mortality, a perhaps not entirely surprising