New Jersey DJ and producer Chris Malinchak is to make his return to the UK this October 2014 with three highly anticipated shows across the country. [Read more…]
Ben Watt Announces UK Tour
September 25, 2013 By 1 Comment
He may have been an in-demand DJ and respected record label boss of late, but until last month it had been thirteen years since Ben Watt last sang and played live with a simple microphone and guitar – not since he and partner Tracey Thorn parked their band Everything But The Girl in 2000. As for solo gigs, you have to go back even further. Thirty years, in fact. As far back as 1983 to the days when he was making left-field folk-jazz recordings like ‘Summer Into Winter’ and ‘North Marine Drive’ as a precocious 19 year-old for London indie label, Cherry Red, with stellar collaborators like Robert Wyatt and Kevin Coyne. [Read more…]
Lissie Announces October UK Tour
August 19, 2013 By 1 Comment
Lissie
As the countdown continues to the release of her highly anticipated second album, ‘Back To Forever’, on 14thOctober, Lissie announces that she’ll be taking her much-lauded, high-octane, Tequila swigging live show on the road for an October 2013 UK tour. [Read more…]
Love Supreme Jazz Festival for 2013
November 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Jools Holland Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, Marcus Miller, Branford Marsalis Quartet, Neil Cowley Trio, Soweto Kinch, Phantom Limb and Zara McFarlane have all been confirmed to perform next July at the Love Supreme Jazz Festival, the first major UK festival of its kind in over 20 years. [Read more…]
Olivia Newton-John Celebrates
October 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Olivia Newton-John To Celebrate 40 Years In Music At The Nia
What: Olivia Newton-John
When: 15 March 2013
Where: NIA, Birmingham
Price: Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday 26 October, priced at £55.00, £45.00 and £36.50 (plus booking and transaction fees) and are available from The Ticket Factory
Four-time Grammy winner Olivia Newton-John has announced that she will be touring the UK next year to celebrate 40 years in music. As part of the tour, which is her first since 1978, she will visit Birmingham’s NIA on 15 March. [Read more…]
Girls Aloud To Bring Something New
October 22, 2012 By 1 Comment
Girls Aloud To Bring Something New
The girls are back in town…! After months of speculation the UK’s number one girl band have announced their return and the LG Arena will welcome Cheryl, Kimberley, Nadine, Nicola and Sarah next year as part of Girls Aloud’s arena tour. [Read more…]
Musicians Invited To Compete
June 28, 2012 By 1 Comment
Judged by soul sensation, Jocelyn Brown
Applications are now open for talented young musicians to enter a Young Music Talent competition to win a recording of their own CD and apply for a bursary at one of the UK’s leading Public School’s, Clifton College. [Read more…]
25 Years Of Spreading The Lurve
November 7, 2011 By 1 Comment
Ambrose Harcourt - Mr Lurve
He is the Barry White of Sussex and there aren’t many people in the area who can say we haven’t heard his deep romantic tones on the radio.
Ambrose Harcourt, “Mr Lurve” is celebrating 25 years of spreading the Lurve to Sussex, London and the Southeast of England where he has been broadcasting all this time.
He joined Southern Sound Radio in 1986 to present a Soul and R & B show on Saturdays, called SOUL DIRECTION. The show finished at 11pm and then there was a sponsored show which ran from 11pm till Midnight when the station closed down for the night. [Read more…]
UK record for Back to Black
August 30, 2011 By 1 Comment
Amy Winehouse
Back To Black returned to the top of the charts a week after the death of Amy Whinehouse, going on to sell more than 3,259,100 copies to become the best-selling album of the century in the UK. [Read more…]
