"Once we’d heard how much a full-page ad in the NME cost, we figured out you could buy a tank for less than that" - #superfurryanimals talk to @yorkshirepost.co.uk ahead of their gig at York Museum Gardens www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...

"On the two occasions I’ve been in David Bowie's presence I failed to make any contact. Being so starstruck, I couldn’t summon the words to speak to him" - @nikkershaw.bsky.social talks to @yorkshirepost.co.uk ahead of gigs in Leeds and Sheffield www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...

A quick re-up for the evening crew, but yes - the whole satan discography (all 20 years of it) can be yours for virtually nothing...

"Once we’d heard how much a full-page ad in the NME cost, we figured out you could buy a tank for less than that" - #superfurryanimals talk to @yorkshirepost.co.uk ahead of their gig at York Museum Gardens www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...

"On the two occasions I’ve been in David Bowie's presence I failed to make any contact. Being so starstruck, I couldn’t summon the words to speak to him" - @nikkershaw.bsky.social talks to @yorkshirepost.co.uk ahead of gigs in Leeds and Sheffield www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...

We canNOT wait Graeme! 👏👍

Oh. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"A generation who ruled the nation with version." This a beautifully written and, in places, very moving review. Heartfelt thanks both to Wrongtom and The Quietus.

"Some of the songs have been morphing for over a decade" - @joanaspolicewoman.bsky.social talks to @yorkshirepost.co.uk about revisiting her debut album, 20 years later www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...

Some thoughts on last night's gig by #PaulWeller at @thepiecehall.bsky.social for @yorkshirepost.co.uk www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...

🚨 How will the under-16s social media ban work? And how will @kiranstacey.bsky.social & I tell our kids 😱 For all the latest on this - plus how Team Starmer is preparing for a potential Andy Burnham win in Makerfield, have a listen to our latest #PoliticsWeekly www.theguardian.com/politics/aud...

Any music journalists can help by doing a review of the debut mini album by Grow, a young Halifax band who we set a label up just to release it! Out now on green vinyl. @duncanseamanyp.bsky.social Let us have an address & we will send a copy.

Details of the final album by #SoftCell have been revealed www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...

UK regulator orders social media firms to adopt measures to stop viral illegal content

Details of the final album by #SoftCell have been revealed www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...

Wildly happy to announce that our Hebden Bridge Trades Club gig on Fri 26 June will now have Patrick Fitzgerald performing an opening set! It's gonna be a proper shoey love-in with at least one interband duet, so a special night all round 🥰 Tix: £15 at thetradesclub.com/events/mb3new

There are going to be a lot of these '10th anniversary of the referendum' pieces in the next few weeks - my own will be in the next @bylinetimes.bsky.social - but this by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social sets a very high bar: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... A timely reminder from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social that the harms of #brexit go way beyond the economic

“It all just seemed to come together” - @skylightsyra.bsky.social talk to @yorkshirepost.co.uk about their new single Fever www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...

'Let me say, I'm against ageing' - Teddy Thompson talks to @yorkshirepost.co.uk ahead of gigs in Pocklington and Leeds www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...

"We are brothers in music and in life. It’s like this is not a job for us, I think it’s a bit of a spiritual vocation" - Abel Selaocoe talks to @yorkshirepost.co.uk ahead of his concert at @harrogatefestivals.bsky.social www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...

"We discovered what we call ‘tragic-romantic’ – you want love to happen but it just goes wrong all the time" - David Balfe talks to @yorkshirepost.co.uk about the debut album by his new band, Late Transmissions www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...

"One thing I did notice during the pandemic was that we need to do shows as much as people need to see shows" - Omar talks to @yorkshirepost.co.uk about working with @musicvenuetrust.bsky.social on his tour of small venues www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...

Over the moon to announce @SylvPatterson as a contributor to #Louder2026. Sylvia joins us in conversation with her brilliant new book: I’m Not with the Man - A Writer’s Life with the Music Mavericks Sat 14 Nov, 8.15pm @innsideuk Manchester All tickets: tinyurl.com/3cdxhna3

"I’ve always had a massive love for orchestral pop that kind of got wiped out by The Beatles" - Dave Balfe talks to @yorkshirepost.co.uk about the debut album by Late Transmissions www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...

Wowzers! Our Women in Punk panel for #Louder2026 just gets better & better! Join Molly Tie, Penny Kiley and Helen McCookerybook for what promises to be a brilliant and pertinent discussion. Saturday 14th November, 2,15pm, The Innside, Manchester. All tickets and info: tinyurl.com/bddvrx3a

I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote

Feels like I booked this gig about 25 years ago now, so it's very exciting that it's finally happening this weekend. If you fancy it, pop on over to BD18 for a night of top notch entertainment: blogaboutsatan.blogspot.com/2026/02/next...

BIG thanks from top guy Marc Riley for our pending BIG weekend of all things The Fall! The Fall Futures and Pasts Join us 5-7 June at Band on the Wall. What a treat of a few days we have in store for sure! All tickets and info: linktr.ee/fallfuturepast 👍❤️👏

"It’s an honour but it’s a bit scary, but I was taught by one of the best" - Leba Thomas talks to @yorkshirepost.co.uk about following in her father's footsteps with Toots and the Maytals www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...

"I wrote the songs with a traditional element but trying to bridge that gap and push into popular music" - @sethlakeman.bsky.social talks to @yorkshirepost.co.uk about 20 years of Freedom Fields www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...

'It’s easy to view instrumental experimental music as a cerebral undertaking... However, this is the kind of show where the audience pogo and crowd-surf' - Angine de Poitrine at @nathbrudenell.bsky.social reviewed by Janne Oinonen for @yorkshirepost.co.uk www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...

A few thoughts on Cowboy Junkies at Howard Assembly Room, Leeds www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...

"The music I want to make and the aesthetics of what I want to put out are very similar to the whole David Lynch thing" - @worriedaboutsatan.bsky.social talk to @yorkshirepost.co.uk www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...

Here's a Q & A thing with Edwyn Collins from last year where he talks about breaking up Orange Juice, recovering from a stroke, being too old to be a punk, and the chaos of recording with Mark E Smith

Edwyn Collins takes Jude Rogers through 13 records that have defined his life for @thequietus.com

"It's like Batman and Robin - you've just got to do it now" - @nickheyward.com talks to @yorkshirepost.co.uk about Haircut One Hundred's first album in 44 years www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...

Forgot to post this on Fri, in case anyone wants some Sunday reading as.ft.com/r/9d1a0148-f...

BIG news! Our host for the Quiz, Sun 7 June @fallfuturepast @bandonthewall It’s Fall enthusiast & host extraordinaire @TheFrankSkinner You coming? Friday: tinyurl.com/mr35dw6x Saturday: tinyurl.com/3kwmvjpy Sunday: tinyurl.com/3k7djpn9 Weekend: tinyurl.com/y5jnwae6

A few thoughts on China Crisis at @oldwoollen.bsky.social for @yorkshirepost.co.uk - and Gary Daly's speculation on which of the band's founder might pre-decease the other www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...

Lovely feature in the Guardian about the Hulme Hippodrome, currently abandoned and derelict. Features Mark Hoyle talking about the time his son Stef squatted the building, and all the good intentions he had.

Epic Soundtracks 'Debris. Milky Clear Vinyl available now on Bandcamp. A collection of demos and outtakes. Sleevenotes by Stewart Lee. @glassmodernr.bsky.social @chrisseventeen.bsky.social @thelilactime.bsky.social @thepastels.bsky.social glassmodern.bandcamp.com/album/debris

‘There’s no streetlights’: North Yorkshire restaurant told to stop driving diners home

"I'm trying to work out how the project will develop moving forward – if it’s going to be an actual band or something that stays really loose" - Cameron Picton talks to @yorkshirepost.co.uk about My New Band Believe www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...

The first tenant at the Teesworks site is making half its workforce redundant because it can't fulfil orders. The site is leased to SeAH by the public sector, who lease it from Macquarie. If SeAH goes under, the public sector is on the hook to the tune of £3.65m a year for 40 years with no income.

"It worked in our favour that there was controversy because that gave us attention" - Stephen Mallinder talks to @yorkshirepost.co.uk about 50 years of @cabaretvoltaire.bsky.social www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...

A great scoop from @annaisaac.bsky.social and not such a great look for the other newspaper involved in the story. One wonders whether they were played or aware of what was happening.

Manic Street Preachers and @suedehq.bsky.social to share double bill at @firstdirectarena.bsky.social www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...

“In Japan they do shows at 6pm, so people would come after work and listen to some music and then they’d go home and have their tea, which was great” - Chris Brain talks to @yorkshirepost.co.uk www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...

"I think we all sensed that something was about to happen, and that maybe we didn’t need even more hair metal, maybe we didn’t need even more Paula Abdul" - @bobmouldmusic.bsky.social talks to @yorkshirepost.co.uk about reuniting @sugarcopperblue.bsky.social www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...