Wildlife legend David Attenborough famously made the world sit up in amazement when his dulcet tones accompanied the thundering of millions of hoofs crossing treacherous rivers on The Great Wildebeest Migration. One of nature’s greatest phenomenon’s, the migration across the Serengeti and Masai Mara eco-system entails a staggering 1.5 million wildebeest, 300,000 zebras, and 200,000 gazelles relentlessly on the move in search of seasonal rains and sustenance. Fraught with peril along the way, their journey becomes even more dangerous at the crucial Mara river crossing from Northern Tanzania to Kenya where predators lie in wait.

Hector Gannet might be labelled a folk-rock band, but there’s a lot more going on here than acoustic guitars and catchy choruses. Aaron Duff’s songwriting takes in everything from Celtic folk to jazz, blues and big, sweeping rock songs, giving the album plenty of variety without ever making it feel disjointed.

Having built a devoted global fanbase on a steady run of singles and EPs, Boy In Space finally steps into full-length territory with The Man Who Lost It All, and the result feels like a significant moment for Robin Lundbäck. More personal than anything he has released to date, the ten-track collection not only offers a deeper insight into the man behind the moniker but also stands as his most cohesive body of work yet.

Kings of Leon, The Corrs, David Gray, Bastille, James Morrison and Emily Rhodes are all joining the bill of the North West’s largest live music festival. It is announced today that Kings of Leon will headline the opening night of Lytham Festival on Wednesday June 30 and will be joined on the night by special guests indie-pop greats Bastille.

GRAMMY® Award-nominated, chart-topping, multi-platinum artist Alex Warren has announced two new UK summer shows for 2027: Blenheim Palace Festival in Oxfordshire on Sunday 27 June and Manchester’s Heaton Park on Friday 2 July, along with a headline show in Figueira da Foz, Portugal, on Sunday 18 July.

Eddi Reader took the long and winding road to success. Having worked part-time at Sirocco Recording Studio in Kilmarnock, she responded to an advert for a backing vocalist for Gang of Four. This started her journey to solo success.

Welcome to an evening with Harry Redknapp, the funniest man in football!! Come join us for a night full of laughter, football stories, and feel-good moments. From his storied career patrolling the touchlines to King of the Jungle on I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here, Harry’s storytelling will leave you hanging on every word and laughing till it hurts.

The South are back on the road and do what they do best - perform the songs of that great British pop institution, The Beautiful South, to the thousands of fans of these timeless classics. The South are an impressive 9-piece band who feature former members of The Beautiful South, including singer Alison Wheeler and lifelong sax player Gaz Birtles.

As two thirds of The George Michael Singers prepare to take their deeply personal show on the road this Christmas, Shirley Lewis and Jo Garland reflect on life with one of music’s greatest talents, the memories they treasure most, and why George Michael’s legacy continues to bring people together. It has been quite a year for The George Michael Singers.

I was up at 6am to finish the landmark BBC 2 Our Friends in the North series and wondered how the stage version would pack three decades and nine hours of TV into one hundred and ten minutes. More significantly, how relevant is the storyline in 2026?

If you think being in a band with your brothers sounds like a recipe for arguments, lateness and the occasional musical disagreement, The Entitled Sons might just prove you right! There’s plenty of sibling banter when we catch up with the lads, from guitarist Raf’s questionable timekeeping to some very strong opinions on other bands.

The UK’s most immersive fireworks display returns from 6th-8th November 2026, featuring live performers, music and pyrotechnics. Alton Towers Resort has revealed the theme for its annual Fireworks Spectacular, promising a show-stopping end to the theme park season. This year’s show, Across the Altonverse, is set to light up the skies from 6th–8th November.

Initially known as a sextet called Six As One, then later renamed as IOYO, the Sligo-born boyband Westlife came to the attention of Louis Walsh very quickly. Seeing potential in three of the six members, he quickly decided he needed to audition for a better line-up, and on July 3, 1998, Westside was born.

From the sheep farms of regional Australia to the fields of Glastonbury, Fanny Lumsden has built a career on her own terms, taking country music to places far beyond its traditional boundaries.

Vonda Shepard maintains a close bond with her UK audience. Despite having released her eponymous debut album on Reprise Records back in 1989, her status as a mainstream artist on these shores really arrived almost a decade later when she featured prominently on the hit TV series Ally McBeal.

Halloween is hands down my children's favourite festival, so the chance to begin the festivities extra early was beyond exciting for the two of them. Tattershall Lakes is a destination many friends have spoken about over the years, but one we had never quite got around to exploring.

Ben Forster has performed on some of the biggest stages in the world, but there’s still one theatre that gives him goosebumps every time he steps onto it.

Freddie Mercury was a master of theatrical excess, a vocalist of extraordinary power and a songwriter capable of turning the most intimate emotions into arena-sized anthems. Yet behind the flamboyant stage persona was a private individual whose thoughts and feelings were often concealed from public view.

Country music has never been short of nostalgia, but Mae Estes is giving it a fresh spin with her new EP, The 90s Called. Drawing on the voices, stories and unapologetic attitude of country’s golden era, Estes pays tribute to the artists who first inspired her to pick up a microphone.

It is nearly 20 years since former University of Indianapolis football scholarship students turned colourful pop act The Hoosiers burst into the charts with their #5 charting debut single, Worried About Ray. With the subsequent album, A Trick To Life, claiming the #1 spot on the charts, it seemed certain that global stardom beckoned.

Eddi Reader is bringing her unmistakable voice back to stages across England this October, with a run of intimate performances celebrating a career that has continually bridged folk, pop and traditional Scottish music.

An intimate evening of songs and stories, plus an open Q & A session. As lead singer and songwriter of The Stranglers during their golden period, Hugh Cornwell cast a spell mixing fact, history, mythology and ideology within the lyrics of the songs.

There are artists who the world loves fleetingly and get remembered for a certain song or a certain moment, then there are artists who become icons with back catalogues that don't just form a soundtrack for one generation, but whose music becomes a soundtrack for moments big and small around the world on repeat. Stevie Wonder falls effortlessly into the latter.

The UK music sector is among the worst of the country’s industries for mothers returning to work after having children, new research reveals. According to data from the Mums in Music campaign spearheaded by international soprano Lola Ganzarolli, only 7% of UK women feel that the music industry good at supporting mothers’ returning to the workplace.

Jamie T Ghosts (100 Days Of Morning) Tracks: 3310, Cocktail, Waist 36 Leg 32, All I Wanna See Is Now, The Won, Chelsea Girls, Ghosts, Crimson & Clover, Crucible, Caught Cheating, Tallahassee Label: Polydor Jamie T has always sounded like an artist with one foot in the present and the other caught somewhere in the past.

Led by the formidable Brijitte West, NY Loose was one of the great underground secrets of mid-’90s New York rock. They had the swagger, the sleaze, the guitars and, crucially, the songs. Their 1995 Loosen Up! EP helped build a devoted following before Hollywood Records came calling, eventually releasing the band’s debut album, Year of the Rat, in 1996. Yet despite touring with the likes of L7 and Marilyn Manson and seeing their brilliant track Spit appears on The Crow: City of Angels soundtrack – the commercial breakthrough never arrived.

There is something fitting about calling your third album Walt Disco. After two records spent pushing, pulling and occasionally losing themselves in different directions, the Glasgow band have arrived at a record that feels less like a reinvention than an acceptance of everything they have already been. It is a statement of identity, certainly, but not one delivered with the certainty of a band who have finally solved themselves. Instead, Walt Disco finds its strength in the messiness of becoming.

What makes the album particularly compelling is the way McVittie brings together the warmth and intimacy of the harp and traditional vocal styles with atmospheric electronic production. Rather than feeling like a clash of old and new, these elements compliment one another beautifully, giving the music a distinctive identity that is at once organic, otherworldly and modern.

Facing the Music It's not frost; it's snow It's not backfire; it's gun-fire It's not fun; it's alcoholism It's not a tantrum; it's violence It's not witty; it's abuse It's not marriage; it's divorce It's not anger; it's rage It's not nothing; it's a lump It's not fear; it's reality It's not sleep; it's death It's not au revoir; it's the end Perhaps the misi…

Lucy is pregnant after a one-night stand with Sam from Brooklyn. The thing is that’s all she knows about him even if she does still feel that the spark between them was real. The novel opens with a somewhat rebellious Lucy (real name Lucia) working in a bar in Brooklyn, having travelled from Italy, to try to find Sam.

Her playing is fluent throughout, her agility impressive and her rhythmic precision unerring, while soloist and orchestra alike embrace the full Romantic sweep of these scores. Period instruments are often sold as a corrective to excess; here they serve the opposite purpose, lending these concertos a warmth and freshness that makes a persuasive case for all three.

Some recordings politely ask for your attention. This one pulls up a stool at the bar, loosens its tie and calls for another round. For anyone who loves Gershwin and the jazz idiom, Lucas Debargue's Gershwin Variations is a double album to treasure: it fizzes, it swings and it oozes panache from first bar to last. The first disc, recorded at the Philharmonie de Paris, pairs Debargue with the Orchestre de Paris under Elim Chan. The Piano Concerto in F skips along with real clarity, the orchestration crisp, the syncopations relished and the percussion crackling with rhythmic fervour.

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has a gift for turning musical archaeology into pure pleasure. In this second volume of The Beethoven Connection he has unearthed some lovely pieces, and he plays them with passion and a beautiful tone from his Yamaha piano. His sensitivity, expressiveness and virtuosity shine throughout the recital.

Carmella de Keyser is at her most persuasive when in freefall: plummeting through the ‘cyan blue’ with Icarean abandon and crossing borders of the senses as though synaesthetic apprehension were a most natural condition of understanding, the poet promulgates a new aesthetic, subordinating all formal considerations to the moment of pure invigoration.

Following the Fannies’ 2023 Nothing Lasts Forever and last year’s side-project Butler, Blake & Grant, Blake and (day job) co. return with Teenage Fanclub’s 13th full-length album. Opening with There Was You, a playful, folksy and upbeat song about how magical surprises can interrupt otherwise predetermined lives, Do Not Dare To Dream gets off to an engaging start. There’s an easy warmth to the song, but also a sense that the album might be setting its ambitions rather lower than some of the band’s finest work.

At its heart, this is hook-heavy, groove-forward indie pop with a wonderfully hazy, retro-futurist sheen. The songs are packed with infectious melodies and big, anthemic choruses, while the warm production gives the record a timeless quality. There are echoes of classic songwriting craft alongside more psychedelic, contemporary textures, making the album feel both familiar and fresh.

Troye Sivan She's the Best Tracks: She's The Best, Canada Dry, Party, I Do This For You, Cowboy, Embarrassingly, Le Boy, Sex Star, Troye Meets World, FF, Love So Big It Hurts, Lost Time (ft.

With more than one million social media followers, over 100 million views and sold-out shows on both sides of the Atlantic, Harriet has had a remarkable rise over the past two years. Now, the British singer-songwriter is bringing her acclaimed Trying To Get The Feeling Again show back home to the UK this autumn, this time with her full live band.

Hear'Say and Liberty X are back and better than ever as they head on a UK and Ireland tour in 2027. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of their formation, Hear’Say and Liberty X have announced details of their upcoming tour - ‘Popstars: The Originals’ which will see both bands perform together for the first time ever on the same stage.

The story of Burlesque revolves around Ali (Alice), a small-town girl from Iowa who travels to New York in search of her biological mother, Theresa, now known as Tess. Ali has been left an address in a letter from her deceased adoptive mother, which leads her to a Burlesque club in the heart of the city, owned by Tess and her ex-husband.

At just 17, Scottish singer-songwriter Zack Gibson is already establishing himself as one of the most compelling young artists in Scotland’s new acoustic pop scene.

Sleeper have announced their biggest UK tour since reforming, with the band set to take their forthcoming sixth studio album, End of the World, on the road across the UK in March and April 2027, with South London four-piece Turin Brakes joining them as special guests.

Norton Grounds is a stunning 120-acre working farm estate and equestrian centre in the heart of the Cotswolds, blending centuries-old heritage with modern comfort, featuring 2 beautiful event barns, an all-weather tipi, the farmhouse family home, and 4 luxury self-catering holiday cottages, sleeping up to 20 guests, surrounded by stunning gardens, rolling arable farmland, ponds full of w…

With their debut EP Dress to Drive on the horizon, Afterdrive are stepping into an exciting new chapter. The band have been building a reputation for energetic live performances and a sound that refuses to sit neatly inside one genre.

Twenty years. It’s a long time in anyone’s book, but in music, where careers can come and go in the blink of an eye, it’s quite something. For Dan Gillespie-Sells, frontman of The Feeling, it’s a milestone that’s being celebrated in the best possible way: by getting back on the road and playing the album that started it all.

Eden Voss has been announced as the winner of the prized Birmingham Comedy Festival Breaking Talent Award 2026. Eden, from Solihull, was presented with his award on Friday 2 October 2026 at a packed Glee Club, Birmingham, by comedian and broadcaster Darren Harriott.

This Christmas, make unforgettable memories at Trentham as Winter Light Trail 2026 returns, transforming the beautiful estate into a dazzling winter wonderland! Expect glittering lights, festive delights and spectacular sights from Friday 20th November through to Sunday 3rd January 2027.

Tom Ogden’s songwriting has become noticeably more personal, drawing heavily on marriage, relationships and the small details that make up a shared life. Yet there is nothing overly grand about the subject matter. Instead, Blossoms find their material in arguments, car journeys, television nights and domestic routines, turning the stuff of everyday existence into bright, melodic indie-pop.

There has never been any sense of Vonda Shepard rushing to put out a record simply for the sake of having something new to say. Instead, she has always seemed more interested in maintaining the remarkable bond she has built with her live audience, whilst allowing herself the time and space to follow her own creative process. New music arrives when it is ready — and, on Nine Songs, that patience has once again paid off.

Killing Heidi was only the beginning. Hooper subsequently explored a folkier side with The Verses alongside Jesse, before embarking on a solo career that has seen her continually experiment with an array of genres and sonic landscapes. Overnight Success, her third solo album, finds her drawing all of those experiences together and planting herself firmly in the Americana and country sphere.