From Slik and The Rich Kids to Ultravox and Band Aid, Midge has produced consistently innovative and excellent pop music. Fronting Ultravox, Midge had nine top 10 albums and sold in excess of 20 million records in the UK alone before moving on to an equally sucessful solo career. His most successful song though remains the multi million selling Do They Know It’s Christmas, which he co-wrote with Bob Geldof.
Nominated for Best Album (Purpose and Grace), Musician of the Year and Best Traditional Track (Lakes of Ponchartrain) – BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2012.
Martin has been nominated an astounding 29 times in the eleven years of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards – more than any other performer – with 11 consecutive years as nominee for Musician of The Year, which he has won twice.
His 2007 release, Prodigal Son was nominated for 5 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, and won Album of the Year, and Best Original song for the deeply moving Never Any Good. At the end of 2008, Simpson returned to the...
Quercus brings together three of the UK’s most creative and original musicians to create beautiful poignant music that transcends musical genres. Drawing on each player’s repertoire of originals, timeless folk songs and reclaimed standard repertoire, the trio subtly recolour the music with their individual palettes to create exquisite acoustic chamber music. It would be hard to put together a group which offers more heartfelt music; from June’s gripping voice and intense delivery to Iain’s gloriously mellifluous melodies and Huw’s lyrical off-kilter musicality, the trio carries the...
One of the biggest bands of the 2-Tone movement, The Beat present a wall of sound that transcends time and ska fusion rhythms to ignite a crowd. They play with the sole aim of connecting with and entertaining their appreciative audience with their relentless energy and world class musicianship.
The Beat are known the world over for a string of hit singles, including Mirror in the Bathroom , Too Nice To Talk To , Can’t Get Used To Losing You , Hands off She’s Mine and All Out To Get You . Their songs of peace, love and unity fuse ska, pop, reggae and punk rock and their dynamic live...
A prolific Fife-based indie/rock singer and songwriter (real name Kenny Anderson) and also a member of The Burns Unit.
King Creosote’s enormous discography includes Queen Of Brush County , Am 9 , Bombshell and Diamond Mine (recorded with Jon Hopkins). The latter was nominated for the Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize 2011.
Read the Guardian’s five star review of King Creosote and Jon Hopkins here >>
‘His style is so intimate, low-key, but often surprisingly affecting songs that accrue a real emotional weight.’ BBC MUSIC
British Sea Power are a six-piece band variously originating from Cumbria, Yorkshire, Ealing and Shropshire and are currently based in East Sussex and on the Isle Of Skye. The band are famed for their live performances, the unusual lyrical content of their songs and the adventurous choice of locations for some of their shows.
The fifth album from British Sea Power is to be called Machineries Of Joy and is scheduled for release on Rough Trade Records on Monday 1 April. The album will be accompanied by fully-amplified concerts live on tour, with this show confirmed as the first UK...
Martin Harley is a phenomenally talented guitarist, singer and songwriter he fronts the highly praised UK-based acoustic trio, The Martin Harley Band. He will be touring his new album MOJO FIX this coming March 2013. A life-long devotee of acoustic guitar music, especially the ageless blues/roots sounds, Martin has travelled the globe absorbing a plethora of diverse influences and honing his craft into the classic songwriting style he possesses today.
With four critically celebrated albums released in the UK and Europe and a new solo album recorded in Texas and releasing October...
Sometimes a band comes along who just know how to do it right. Although they have only been around for 18 months, Fay Hield & The Hurricane Party have already established themselves as leading proponents of traditional song and tunes. The material is fresh and original, yet rooted in centuries old tradition. These are songs to which Fay feels an especially strong connection, and that love and respect for the tradition shines through in her performance. The showmanship and musicality on display are second to none. Featuring lead fiddle player from Bellowhead Sam Sweeney (fiddle, cello,...
After a summer featuring many tentish festival performances, a brief sojourn with the Olympic Flame (including the Hyde Park finale) allowed Little Comets to fondly represent the region from which they proudly descend, playing some truly special shows to throngs of gleeful north east indigenes.
With the leaves starting to line the paths with increasing determination, Little Comets remain equally committed to actually saying something in a song and convincing Taio Cruz that “plans” and “dance” is not acceptable as a rhyme. Little Comets (Robert Coles: vocals, Michael Coles: guitar,...
Stiff Little Fingers take things ‘up a gear’. The band will be touring the UK in March and are currently recording their as yet untitled 10th studio album set for release in 2013.
Stiff Little Fingers were formed in 1977 in Belfast, Ireland. Along with the likes of the Clash, Sex Pistols, The Jam, Buzzcocks, Undertones, Sham 69, Stranglers, et al – Stiff Little Fingers were at the forefront of the punk movement. They wrote initially about their own lives, growing up at the height of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, in songs like Suspect...
