The inaugural Fightback Bristol comes to the city this February to celebrate grassroots music venues and encourage audiences to support them. Here the organisers choose some top picks from the bill...
‘In all honesty, I'm still stunned by it all and can't quite believe it,’ says Gordon Giltrap of his recent appointment as an MBE. Here, the guitarist and composer reflects on his career and achievements.
'Nobody would be playing festivals or arenas without the work that goes in to these new bands' - IVW founder, Sybil Bell, chats to us about the importance of grassroots venues ahead of this year's event...
‘There are songs on this album which I would never have dreamed would be possible for us to write 10 years ago': White Lies on a decade in the game and what's in store for the new LP...
For our first playlist of 2019, we hand over the baton to some of the UK's best musical minds to learn who they'll be keeping their eyes and ears on this year...
‘There is a lot of creative freedom in writing library music.' We chat to composer and multi-instrumentalist Justine Barker about the processes and creative rewards of working within the genre.
'Ask anyone with a great music programme in their venue and they will tell you it's definitely NOT a get rich quick scheme. We do it for the love of it' - Liam Naughton on how IWF is overcoming venue challenges...
Tanita Tikaram casts her mind back 30 years to the moment when her first single, Good Tradition, came to her…
Get to know some of the ace music-makers who have just joined PRS for Music, including classical ace Blasio Kavuma, Scottish shoegazers Yakima and Polish techno producer Zamilska...
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