Duncan Seaman

Four years to the day since her debut single came out, Zoe Cure, the Leeds-based acoustic singer-songwriter, unveiled Wave, the title track from her soon-to-be-released first album.

After headlining at BST Hyde Park this summer, Duran Duran are back on the road next month on a short tour of UK arenas. But hopes that the release earlier this year of the Nile Rodgers collaboration Free To Love might be the dawn of a campaign for a new album are, however, wide of the mark, it would seem.

With 15 UK concert dates scheduled, Sid Griffin, singer, songwriter and band leader, is looking forward to The Long Ryders’ first tour of Britain since the autumn of 2024.

Peter Ormerod’s book, David Bowie and The Search for Life, Death and God, is certainly not your standard rock biography.

Paul Pashley launches his album at Bibis Italianissimo in Leeds on Sunday October 11 Sheffield singer Paul Pashley's path to a career in music was unusual to say the least.

Teenage Fanclub’s 13th album, Dare Not To Dream, is an album that unfolds at its own pace. But according to Norman Blake, one of the band’s two remaining founding members, it wasn’t actually planned that way.

A decade on from mothballing his stage and recording persona Lone Wolf, Leeds singer-songwriter Paul Marshall has been tempted out of retirement to play an intimate gig at Hyde Park Book Club in Leeds.

Shed Seven are set to play the biggest headline show of their career next May in what promises to be a defining moment for the band.

As his band Cud continue celebrations for their 40th anniversary, singer Carl Puttnam is in reflective mood. Comparing the “good” independent set-up that the Leeds-based group has now to the days when they were working with working with a major record label, he says: “It was always mostly all right when we were going as a band back in the day, except that record companies don’t really like musicians.

From Nick Heyward of Haircut 100 to John Foxx, Pauline Black of The Selecter, Marco Pirroni of Adam and The Ants and Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh, this year’s line-up is again really strong.