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.
Status Quo’s Francis Rossi is putting his Telecaster aside for a UK tour of anecdotes and admissions. JAMES READER spoke to the rock icon who’s set to drop in on Preston and Lancaster to tell all
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.
The rise and fall of Little Voice was first staged at Bolton’s Octagon Theatre around seven years ago and its return sees a shakeup of the staging in a new home.
The Smiths were one of the best loved bands of the 1980s. Now a new book is set to look back at their famous live dates and the author needs your help to capture their Lancashire dates, as Mike Hill reports
With The Skids and Big Country, two of Scotland’s greatest rock exports, set to visit Preston, MALCOLM WYATT tracked down Skids drummer Mike Baillie to discuss the bands’ shared history
If it’s December, Slade must be doing the rounds again, in the post Holder/Lea configuration they’ve worked in for 25-plus years. MALCOLM WYATT got the lowdown from guitar legend Dave Hill
As the festive season approaches, one of the live party stalwarts is back, Andy Scott reliving The Sweet’s glory days and happy to talk to glam fan MALCOLM WYATT
A man like Shaun Ryder needs no introduction... for the hard man of drugs and rock 'n' roll has a reputation that deeply precedes him. But these days he has mellowed somewhat and is more 'compos mentis' he claims.
