Entries in 'Jeff Smith' (16)

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. “I ...

We’ve heard from the music industry about their highs of 2017 (part one and part two) and the lows. Now it’s time to talk about the music, ...

As we come to the end of 2017, Music Week has reached out to many of the biggest names from across the biz for our annual poll on the highs, ...

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. 6 Music ...

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. Speaking in the new ...

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 ...