Flash back to a bright, yet freezing sunny day back in early March 2017: your correspondent is in search of The Greatest Showman set in New York at Brooklyn’s Steiner ...
There is an incredible, tell-all book to be written on the Manic Street Preachers’ near 30-year career. Just don’t expect Nicky Wire to be the one that writes it.
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As in boxing, so in radio. If reach isn’t the deciding factor, then time often is. And, in an era when networks compete with a variety of other platforms – ...
BBC Radio 6 Music’s Jeff Smith believes the station is yet to realise its full potential, despite recording its highest ever audience figures to date in Q1 2017.
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Last month, BBC Radio 6 Music descended on Glasgow with busloads of bands – including Depeche Mode, Future Islands, Sleaford Mods and Warpaint – in tow. They were in situ ...
Like country, jazz and blues, folk is one of those peculiar sub-genres of music that very rarely gets an opportunity to shine in its own right, but consistently reveals itself ...
Jeff Smith, head of music for BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music, has backed Radio 2’s ability to help folk artists cross over into the mainstream.
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Not a lot of point in wasting acres of space on what’s already been said about 2016, except to confirm that, yep, on the whole it was an absolute rotter ...
