Duncan Seaman

Music legends Boy George and Culture Club have announced a major UK arena tour for December 2026.

Pepsi MAX presents Reading & Leeds Festival have announced further names set to join the line-up across both sites.

Electronic music legends Soft Cell, aka singer and frontman Marc Almond and multi-instrumentalist and producer Dave Ball, are set to release Danceteria, their sixth and final studio album, on the September 25 via Republic of Music.

It was the album that marked Joan Wasser’s ascent from violinist in East Coast bands such as The Dambusters and Black Beetle to acclaim as a singer-songwriter who performed under the stage name Joan As Police Woman.

Since their last studio album, Dark Days/Light Years came out in 2009, Super Furry Animals reunions been sporadic, with members busying themselves in the meantime with solo projects and other bands.

Nik Kershaw has enjoyed a 40-year career in music that’s seen him sell millions of records and in the mid 1980s spend more weeks in the UK charts than any other British male solo artist. Yet to this day, he says, he has always suffered a sense of imposter syndrome.

Visitors flock to Galax, Virginia, each summer for the Old Fiddlers' Convention, a days-long celebration of Appalachian music.

With his band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark back on touring duties, singer and bass guitarist Andy McCluskey has been up for several hours readying himself for a band rehearsal by the time he picks up the phone for a mid-morning chat with The Yorkshire Post.

Once a field of dreams where the biggest names in pop and rock played, since the 1980s Roundhay Park has rarely hosted artists of the magnitude of Madonna, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen or The Rolling Stones.

Back in the early 1980s when Fiat Lux were signed to Polydor, supporting Howard Jones and being championed by BBC Radio 1’s Annie Nightingale, the Wakefield band were expected to become one of Britain’s new big synth pop groups.