There’s a famous, oft-repeated story about George Best in which a bellboy delivers champagne to the late football great’s hotel room, only to stumble upon Best entertaining the reigning Miss ...
Twenty years ago, very few people would have predicted this. Two decades after first emerging into public view with their foot kickin’, finger clickin’, leather slapping, hand clappin’, hip bumpin’, music ...
Remember the cold, desolate landscape that was the future of new UK music back in 2016? You know, before Rag’N’Bone Man and Stormzy blazed a record-breaking trail through the charts ...
“One year I organised the Christmas party and we actually took over the Russian Embassy in Kensington,” Zita McQ recalls from her time at the notorious London Records as a ...
They call him the “poster boy” for their rise and rise. He calls them a “young indie label with the muscle of an old pro”. The relationship between Jack Savoretti ...
It was Bestival founder Rob Da Bank who coined the idea for an Association Of Independent Festivals (AIF), setting up the not-for-profit organisation with his manager, Ben Turner, in 2008. ...
I love gadgets,” Russell Watson grins, as he fiddles with his iPod, “I’m a right knobhead.”
Music Week is sitting in Watson’s sizeable Cheshire front room, listening to selected tracks ...
A rock star entering rehab is usually par for the course, yet there was widespread disbelief when Tom Chaplin, the angelic-voiced frontman of Keane, went public with his drug and ...
They say you should never meet your heroes. But when your hero is David Bowie and he’s asking to hitch a ride in your Range Rover, normal convention goes out ...
