Music

IT’S been a busy year for Gengahr following on from the success of debut album ‘A Dream Outside’.

SIR TERRY Wogan could be heading back to the charts thanks to an online campaign to get the late broadcaster to Christmas Number One.

I was on holiday in the Lake District twelve years ago, and there chanced upon a concert given by music students. The Heath Quartet were among them just playing a movement from a Haydn string quartet, and I was so impressed I followed it up with an unscheduled and highly enthusiastic review.

Shaun Ryder has teamed up with former Black Grape bandmate Paul ‘Kermit’ Leveridge for a tour. Duncan Seaman reports.

Courteeners’ fifth album, Mapping the Rendezvous, has arrived this month with some fanfare. Singer Liam Fray described it as their “best and sexiest set of songs ever” and the record duly shot to Number 4 in the UK charts.

Leeds band Deadwall are one of two bands featured on the latest release from the city-based singles club Come Play With Me.

Brighton band TOY are an indie/psychedelic rock band from Brighton who have just released their third album, Clear Shot.

Honeyblood want to introduce a special guest.

Sixties fans will be into something good at Sheffield City Hall next week with seven legendary names headlined by Herman's Hermits and we have tickets to be won.

The Teenage Fanclub crowd in Leeds University’s Stylus venue is of a certain, somewhat uniform demographic. The type that know what they like and like what they know, and have done since 1990 when the five piece from Bellshill, Glasgow released their first ever single Everything Flows.

A concert where the star attraction isn’t actually present in the room really shouldn’t work.

Rock legend Jeff Lynne and his Electric Light Orchestra will land their spaceship at Sheffield Arena.

There’s been a lot of talk about the musical influence of Central African Republic Pygmies on Joan As Police Woman’s collaboration with Benjamin Lazar Davis.

As Soul II Soul head to the Foundry in Sheffield next week, founder, DJ and producer Jazzie B spoke to Duncan Seaman.

All the latest new releases including Emeli Sande and Sting,