Music

‘Poetry keeps you young’ - these are the words of Roger McGough who will be bringing his unique style of poetry performed with music to Litfest 2019 this weekend in Lancaster.

Nearly 1,500 schoolchildren came together to perform five concerts at the Ashton Hall as part of the 2019 Lancaster and District Schools’ Singing Festival.

Busted are a band that need to introduction, since they burst on to the music scene back in 2000. Then they were just boys, but with their latest album, Half Way There, the boys - James Bourne, Matt Willis and Charlie Simpson - have grown up without growing old.

Alice Cooper, Steel Panther, Thin Lizzy, KISS, Motley Crue and W.A.S.P. - are all bands who feature highly in the Who's Who of heavy rock. So what do they all have in common? That would be Cambridge five-piece The Treatment.

Do you like scratching? Well, a community focused event in Lancaster featuring world champion DJs will give all ages the chance to try their hand at cutting and scratching over a record.

Lancaster’s Highest Point Festival has announced its dance music and DJ line-up.

Lancaster Music Festival has launched a competition to find future musical stars in the district.

Rock god Slash launched his UK tour with an electric and energetic performance in Manchester last night.

Already acknowledged as thrilling live performers and folk music pioneers, Lau arrive at a new creative peak with Midnight and Closedown.

Annie is a memorable track on the the long-playing record of my childhood.

Lancaster Grand Theatre is welcoming back JK as Robbie Williams with his stage show Let Me Entertain You.

With a double nomination in the BBC Folk Awards (Folk singer of the Year and Best New Song), Jez Lowe has leapt into his third decade as a song-writing troubadour, on the back of a new and much acclaimed album – his nineteenth – entitled The Ballad Beyond.

Projected images of Saddam Hussein, Vladimir Putin and Tony Blair accompanied Massive Attack’s live “re-interpretation” of their 1998 album Mezzanine at Manchester Arena this week.