Music

DODGY have released a brand new version of their top 20 smash Staying Out For The Summer to raise money for the homeless.

One of Ed Sheeran's two outdoor concerts in Roundhay Park this summer has yet to sell out.

Burton Agnes Jazz and Blues Festival has announced more artists for its 13th summer festival at the stately home near Bridlington.

A previous Tears for Fears gig involved standing in a field with 120,000 other dripping souls watching them open Knebworth ’90, the heavens churlishly opting to do precisely the same; Roland Orzabal, visibly soaked, backing musicians sporting an array of waterproofs whilst fearing electrocution.

Rumours of Fleetwood Mac, the world’s finest tribute to Fleetwood Mac, returns to the stage with its anniversary tour and hits Harrogate later this year.

Rumours of Fleetwood Mac, the world’s finest tribute to Fleetwood Mac, returns to the stage in its snniversary tour and hits Scarborough in March

Neneh Cherry is on her first UK tour in five years – and it starts in Leeds next week. She spoke to Duncan Seaman.

Will Young, Basement Jaxx and Toploader will all perform at Roundhay Park this summer.

Leeds was the first show to sell out on Steve Mason’s latest UK tour.

Deliberate underachievement and a dubious work ethic: it’s very difficult indeed to attach stereotypical shorthand for slacker-ish indie rock to the Wave Pictures.

A hirsute bear of a man in road-worn denim, Israel Nash looks like he could have been right at home at some mythical star-studded late 60s jam sessions at the Catskill Mountains around the time the Woodstock Festival rocked that region.

Great British footwear brand Dr Martens has launched a new capsule collection celebrating legendary anarchic music pioneers the Sex Pistols.

Nine years on from Queen of Denmark, the record that was to transform his musical career, John Grant remains a force to be reckoned with.

American jazz guitarist John Scofield has played with all the greats, now he’s on a solo tour. He spoke to Duncan Seaman.

Only half a century separated Peter Jackson’s last project from his next. Fifty years to the day since The Beatles played their last public concert, on a London rooftop, he announced plans to do for them what he had done for the troops in the trenches.

Somehow, it’s 21 years since Massive Attack turned up the volume on the abrasive, paranoid, post-punk elements of the sonic stew which had seen them labelled “trip hop” for their down-tempo beats, soulful female vocals and whispered raps. The result, Mezzanine, more than holds its own amid that run of brooding pre-millennium albums which includes the likes of Radiohead’s OK Computer.

Twelve years after they first cascaded on to the scene with debut album A Guide To Love Loss and Desperation, Liverpool’s The Wombats bought their grandeur live show to Leeds’ First Direct Arena for a headline performance complete with confetti, balloons and all the hits.

“I’m not going to revert to just talking again,” quips The 1975 frontman Matt Healy, clad in an apparent blue boilersuit and waltzing across a travellator strung across the front of the stage at Sheffield’s FlyDSA Arena.