January 2008 Archives

THE Wombats have been nominated for a hat-trick of gongs at this year’s NME Awards...

Billy Fury was truly the British Rock ‘n’ Roll star. He had 24 hits in the 1960s and spent 332 weeks on the chart – a feat equalled only by The Beatles...

Julian Cope was the keynote speaker at the opening of a rare double exhibition of William Blake’s work, which opened at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester on Friday night 25.01.08. These exhibitions celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Blake and the ending of the slave trade.
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The Icicle Works have only just made a come back, but now it seems they’re already going back into retirement.

Sometimes music is more than just music. Sometimes it’s the unifying force that moves mountains and changes people’s lives.

In the review column this week we have the latest offerings from The Eels, Kathryn Williams and Neill MacColl, and the Proclaimers...

Every great band needs its thunderbolt, the charismatic rock god who joins the band, sacks the drummer, brings in a new keyboardist, writes most of their best songs, insists on playing all the guitars and singing and transforms them into something special. Oasis had Noel. The Clash had Strummer. And One Night Only have George Craig...

BBC Radio 2 favourite and champion of popular culture, Stuart Maconie will deliver the LS Lowry Lecture 2008

IF DIGSY Deary had a pound for every time his band had been tipped as the next big thing he'd be a very rich man by now.