Music Futures – Sage Gateshead – Thursday 12th November 2015 Generator announce a second wave of stellar speakers for Music Futures Conference For tickets and further info visit – www.musicfutures.info Generator have today revealed the second wave of speakers to take part in their already impressive Music Futures Conference in November. Set to join […]
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Wraps off Loopallu Festival Line up
With camping tickets long since sold out, and only a handful of weekend tickets remaining we’re pleased to start pulling the wraps off this years line up. Again, despite the festivals tiny size and remote location a veritable treasure trove of acts are making their way North to the unofficial last […]
Dame Evelyn Glennie, The Animotion Show
Dame Evelyn and Fills Monkey, Sebastien Rambaud (glasses) and Yann Coste (beard), discovered a mutual love of performing music with Boomwhackers, tuned flexible percussion instruments and the trio will perform with the colourful instruments at the imposing setting of George Heriot’s School, said to be the inspiration for Hogwarts in the Harry Potter books […]
Subterranean Haunted Blues
Jack L lights up Blair St vaults To mark the Fringe premiere of Late Night Phantasmagoria with Jack Lukeman; the multi platinum-selling artist descends beneath the city to perform for Edinburgh’s ghouls and phantoms in a candlelight vault below the Royal Mile. Striking a charismatic pose in top hat and tailcoat Lukeman (known as […]
FIRST WAVE OF MUSIC FUTURES 2015 SPEAKERS
GENERATOR ANNOUNCE FIRST WAVE OF MUSIC FUTURES 2015 SPEAKERS Joe Harland (Radio 1 and 1xtra) / Simon Cole (7 Digital) / Chris Price (New Slang Media) / Kim Bayley (Entertainment Retailers Association) / Martin Talbot (Official Charts Company) / Melanie Armstrong (HMV) / Lee Morrison (Believe Digital) / Alison Donald(Columbia Music UK) / Jim Chancellor (Fiction and Caroline International) / Caroline Elleray (Universal Music Publishing) / Tim Ingham (Music Business Worldwide) Further panellists to be announced […]
Top bands close Wickerman
Tom Odell, Example & DJ Wire, Jimmy Cliff, The Sonics and Neneh Cherry bring an electrifying two day Festival to a Close 17,500 Festival fans watched the flames of Wickerman’s iconic 40 foot statue burn brightly on Saturday to celebrate the close of Scotland’s leading independent music festival. Excellent weather, unforgettable performances and […]
IDLEWILD, PRIDES AND MORE FOR BELLA
IDLEWILD, PRIDES AND MORE FOR BELLA The legendary Scots rock band Idlewild has been announced as an addition to the line-up at Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival (6-8th August; Beauly, Inverness-shire). The band will be joined by Scots indie rising stars Prides and The LaFontaines. Glasgow singer-songwriter and 2015 SAY Award winner Kathryn Joseph will be joining bill on the XpoNorth Seedlings stage, while Leeds […]
T IN THE PARK DAY 3 BACKSTAGE CHATS
T IN THE PARK DAY 3 BACKSTAGE CHATS JAMES BAY “T in the Park is the end of a real good three-in-a-row for me. We were in Lisbon, never played there before, 40 or 50,000 people came to the stage, most of them were singing the words. I had no idea that was gonna […]
T IN THE PARK DAY 2 HIGHLIGHTS
T IN THE PARK DAY 2 HIGHLIGHTS AND BACKSTAGE CHATS FROM STRATHALLAN CASTLE Highlights from Day 2, Saturday 11th July, at T in the Park Day Two at Strathallan Castle, and it was fitting that one of the early highlights at T in the Park was happening up at T Break. This […]
EPIC START FOR T IN THE PARK
EPIC START FOR T IN THE PARK AT STRATHALLAN CASTLE HIGHLIGHTS AND BACKSTAGE CHATS FROM DAY 1 #HELLOSTRATHALLAN… DAY 1 HIGHLIGHTS FROM T IN THE PARK Friday 10th July 2015 was a landmark moment – another one – in the history of Scotland’s biggest music festival. This was the opening […]