Typically, artists build a steady following through accessible records, and then get strange. Steve Gunn has completed this journey in the opposite direction.
Music can be frivolous, it can fade into the background, wash over you, set out to shock or surprise. Or it can be important. Debut album Dogrel from Dublin’s Fontaines DC is important.
Now a three-piece, Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen have been the stalwarts of British pop culture for nearly 30 years – and are considerably older than a few of their newer fans at last night’s sold out show.
They have no shortage of technology of their own, from social media to streaming video, but so-called millennial youngsters are turning increasingly to a science that was written off a generation ago.
Beneath a big top perched on Wanstead Flats in east London, a heaving mass of Nigerian, Ethiopian, Malian, Lebanese and South African musicians roll on and off stage.
International multi platinum-selling artist Khalid is to play at the First Direct Arena in Leeds as part of his headline ‘Khalid Free Spirit World Tour’.
Honeyblood’s new album, In Plain Sight, marks a point of departure for Scottish musician Stina Tweeddale. Not only is the record a stylistic step forward from its two garage-rock influenced predecessors, it’s also Tweeddale’s first as a solo artist.
“I think I’m good / Will I be great?” ponders Julia Jacklin on the alt-country ‘Motherland’. It’s a question that this gig answers largely in the affirmativ
There aren’t many concerts where you find yourself being entertained by impressions of sporting stars such as Harry Kane one minute, then basking in the exquisite sounds of Bach or Debussy the next.
As his band The Zutons prepare to reassemble for their first UK tour in 10 years, lead singer and songwriter Dave McCabe is nothing if not plain spoken about the reasons for their initial demise and why they’ve now regrouped.
Platinum-selling indie band The Pigeon Detectives will support Madness when the music legends bring their 40th anniversary celebrations to the Yorkshire coast this summer.
