Duncan Seaman

Hours after The Stranglers have shared an open-air stage in Scarborough with fellow veterans of the 1970s punk rock movement, the Sex Pistols and The Undertones, Baz Warne is relaxing in a hotel in York “enjoying the solitude of the morning”.

Budding filmmakers, musicians and creatives across West Yorkshire are being offered the chance to develop professional production skills free of charge through a new music video and visualiser production course at The Piece Hall in Halifax.

Holmfirth Sound Society is the idea of Kirklees-based electronic musician Tom Ragsdale to “re-pay the favour” to many of the promoters who’ve staged his gigs over the last 20 years.

It’s been 15 years since Woody Woodmansey, former drummer with the Spiders From Mars, first teamed up with producer Tony Visconti to form Holy Holy, a band dedicated to performing the songs of their long-time friend, David Bowie.

With two albums and a book out in the space of three years, Dexys Midnight Runners mainstay Kevin Rowland has been going through something of a purple patch of late.

Marking 50 years of punk, Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter have announced more UK dates on their Anarchy In The UK tour – including one in Leeds.

The band formed by Bowie alumni deliver startlingly entertaining evening of highlights from the Thin White Duke’s songbook.

Amid the plethora of grunge bands signed to the Seattle-based record label Sub Pop at the turn of the 1990s, The Afghan Whigs were always something of an anomaly.

Once part of Heir, the five-piece yacht pop band who formed as students at Leeds Conservatoire, Sam Perry now has a new solo musical vehicle he’s calling The Luca.

There’s no holding back from the Leicester band on a night to launch their latest album.