Last year 3.9 million people attended music festivals in the UK. While Glastonbury is considered to be the ultimate, festivals are literally multiplying like unneutered guinea pigs in a shoddily run pet shop with every cricket ground, Butlins Holiday Park [...Read More]
Features
Catch The Charlatans Sold Out Northwich Show on the Big Screen!
Something a little bit special is happening down at Night People in Manchester on Friday, May 18th. Nearly 30 years since the release of their first single, The Charlatans are taking their music back to where it all started for [...Read More]
Another fabulous new album from this terrific band!
‘Tracks’ – Snowapple Well, here we have, yet another addition, to the wonderful catalogue of recordings, by a totally original band – and I mean, totally creative, and original! Snowapple are a group of multi-instrumentalists and singers from the Netherlands [...Read More]
An album of new Guitar music from Japan and Britain – what’s not to like!
’Anyday,Now……Everyday’ by Andrew Clegg What do you get when you bring together two well-respected music composers from opposite sides of the world together and ask them to provide a little musical magic to the solo guitar repertoire? Then, you [...Read More]
Have Downloads Killed the CD Star?
So a little over two years ago, I got the keys to my first house, picture the scene…There was so much mould I think the growing black organisms had formed a workers union and were demanding better facilities and the [...Read More]
RICHIE RAMONE – ONCE A RAMONE, ALWAYS A RAMONE!
Glenn Knudsen had the privilege of catching up with one of America’s most revered punk rockers recently ... here’s what went down! Richie Ramone enjoyed almost a five year stint with The Ramones, and is one of only three surviving [...Read More]
STORIES FOR BOYS
In 1980 I was working with U2, prior to the release of their first single, 11 o’ clock tick tock, taking them in and out of every radio station in the UK and to anyone who showed the slightest bit [...Read More]
Where Are You Now? – Woski
A band completely new to me, but now, once heard, never forgotten I reckon! Who and what are WOSKI? Well, they are an alternate, 5 piece rock band, who hail from Manchester. As they say, they also have that ‘psychedelic [...Read More]
James Reveals New Four-Track EP
Manchester legends James will release a brand new four-track EP to coincide with their already-announced tour of intimate venues in May. The Better Than That EP is the band’s first release since the hugely successful album Girl at the End [...Read More]
Farewell Raphael Doyle …
We are saddened by the news that Cafe Society’s Raphael Doyle, lost his battle with motor neurones disease on Friday March 30th 2018. If you didn’t catch the interview with him in 2016, here it is again. His album “Never [...Read More]