Music

Yorkshire chart stars The Sherlocks revealed plans for a second album ahead of their sold out homecoming show in Leeds.

There’s something gleefully priggish about Jack White’s strict refusal to adhere to the parameters of the modern-day concert-going experience.

From: Nan Preston, Seaton Ross.

Currently on a UK tour, Squeeze’s Glenn Tilbrook is on a mission to raise food poverty awareness. He spoke to Duncan Seaman.

Hot on the heels of a top 10 album, Bugzy Malone’s 13-date UK tour is said to be the largest ever undertaken by a British grime artist.

Art is a fluid thing, at least to Ian McCulloch of seminal Liverpool rockers Echo and the Bunnymen.

Million-selling American rock band All Time Low are to headline next year’s Slam Dunk Festival in Leeds.

SPACE-ROCK veterans Hawkwind are on their travels, and not only that, they have an interesting new album out.

Piano man Billy Joel has announced his only UK date for 2019 - full details here and how to get tickets when they go on sale on Friday, October 19, at 9am.

From: Alec Benton, Guiseley.

There are few who know why Electric Light Orchestra frontman Jeff Lynne appears to have worn his aviators in perpetuity for the best part of 50 years, but the sheer sonic sunniness of his back catalogue might have something to do with it.

NEARLY A quarter of a century ago, Miles Hunt fronted what was supposed to be the final ever gig of his band, The Wonder Stuff, in front of tens of thousands of fans at a former airfield in Staffordshire.

Rock and roll royalty doesn’t get much bigger than Jack White, who becomes the latest big name to make their bow at the Bonus Arena, Hull when he plays on October 18.

“It’s good to see old people standing up,” Richard Thompson jokes as he arrives on stage in the first sampling of his seemingly inexhaustible supply of drily hilarious banter.

There seems a stigma behind characterising male and female singer-songwriters. Comparisons with artists from a year or so ago run true whenever content is written about them. Tom Grennan on the other hand derives from the proper old school. He’s now a heart-throb in the true context of screaming female fans and undoubtedly some male ones too.

You don’t get a great deal of incense at gigs these days. Free Love, however, provide stimuli for ears, eyes and the nose.

THIS week’s call by Ofsted’s chief inspector for the school curriculum to be broadened is even more pertinent in the wake of today’s report that music education is in danger of disappearing from some state schools.