It’s been two whole years since the UK has seen a Steve Hackett tour. In fact, and rather neatly, two years to the day since his last Bridgewater Hall gig. The current tour sees Hackett deliver what’s ...

To Drown The Svn In Wine offered another taste of the band’s newer material before Bartzabel provided one of the evening’s most atmospheric moments. Slower, more ceremonial and almost hypnotic in its ...

Richard Thompson - ‘The finest rock songwriter since Dylan and the best electric guitarist since Hendrix’ - is back with an album that sits high in the canon.

Some places only ache once you have left them, and others you leave because they ache. Shores of Null have built an entire ...

Thirty years is a long time to stay sad, but few bands have turned sorrow into a career quite as gracefully as Insomnium.

Welcome to Issue #26 of Singles Selection. With Singles Selection, we take a look at some of the brand new singles that have ...

Carved from grief and crowned with melody, The Light That Keeps Us lingers long after its final note has faded.

Sofia Gillani is an independent Asian pop artist. Beginning her career at nine years old, Sofia has devoted herself to her ...

Mariecke Borger takes prompts from Joni Mitchell and James Taylor to fashion ten personal and wonderfully intimate songs for ...

Manchester is the latest recipient of an evening with Big Big Train. What could be marked as a Big Big Train game of two ...

McAloon ambles onto stage, his relaxed demeanour and easy humour barely concealing his feelings about the daunting task which ...

A charismatic legend and a new star in the making combine to enthrall us with a mix of soulful and rocky blues in Southport.