Music
Don your vintage attire and race to the last Dollar Shake of 2016
Organisers promise to blow your minds with a mix of vintage RnB, RnR, Soul, Cuban and Electro Swing, and they’ve got added fire this time around too - a Burlesque performance from Honey Le Bon....
Manchester noise-merchants go in for the kill at The Craufurd Arms
"There's nothing more therapeutic than screaming your head off," says frontman and guitarist Steven Dobb. "When you've had a bad day, it's incredibly cathartic to step into a rehearsal room and just make the loudest noise imaginable."...
The Shimmer Band show their style at Bedford Esquires this week
The Pad Presents promotion team caught the quintet live for the first time at The Great Escape in Brighton, and remember it well. “From the moment they hit the stage The Shimmer Band delivered the finished article for a band who looked like they were ready for the big time," they recalled....
This week at The Stables: With Jo Harman, Dodgy, Keith James, Elio Pace, Liz Pichon & more...
Martin Taylor celebrates his 60th birthday by hitting the road, and the multi-award-winning guitarist, composer and educator will be back at The Stables on Tuesday (October 25). Incredibly, Martin has spent 45 years working as a touring artists, and the man widely considered to be the world's foremost exponent of solo jazz and finger-style guitar has more than 100 recordings to his name......
Third Forest, Folk & Roots appearance for the inimitable Gerry Colvin Band
If you look up prolific in the dictionary, the explanation probably reads as Gerry Colvin... Expect to hear songs taken from various eras of his extensive history, in a fusion of roots, country and jazz....
Big Evil Grin, Black Martis and Ivory Yardsale play Milton Keynes Gallery this week
Loyalty to any particular genre goes out of the window and what is left is a truly passionate sound unrestrained by what is expected. Imagine if the collective members of And So I Watch You From Afar, Fugazi and Explosions in the Sky were to come together and form a piano trio. That's the sound that Black Martis make....
