While today’s politicians are squabbling amongst themselves about welfare reforms, what to do with our disaffected youth and the double dip recession they could do a lot worse than listen to Terry Hall’s words of wisdom.
The Specials’ Horace Panter remembers the band’s rise and fall. Andy Richardson spoke to him.
It’s funny. Carol Decker feels as though she’s reached a point where her biggest success were yesterday – and yet her glory days feel like 100 years ago.
Dan Jones catches up with the region’s best unsigned acts and meets the stars of tomorrow
Legendary singer Steve Earle says he now has the best band ever.
The stars of hit British movie Brassed Off, the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, will come to Wolverhampton on Sunday when they headline the city’s Grand Theatre.
Bands from Shropshire and Wales will be taking to the same stage as some of the biggest names in the music world appear at the Osfest festival next week.
Their British fans kept on believing for decades and now US melodic rock giants Journey are back at LG Arena and ready to rock. Keyboard player Jonathan Cain talks to Ian Harvey.
It may be almost 40 years since Slade’s Merry Xmas Everybody reached Christmas No 1 – but band frontman Noddy Holder showed he had lost none of his style when he appeared on stage in Shropshire.
After a three-year break, songbird Leona Lewis is back with a series of stripped-back gigs.
Chart-topping pop band D:ream will star at the latest 90s gig in Shrewsbury, it was announced today.
Organisers of the Osfest Music Festival say they are on track to sell out for the three day event.
A day-long music festival in Shropshire featuring a major headline act will put the area on the map, a senior councillor said today.
Fusing infectious ska beats with a raw rock sound is bread and butter to progressive West Midlands band Fight the Bear.
Hundreds of revellers descended on Shropshire to see former X factor winner Shayne Ward’s long-awaited county gig.
Superstar Beyonce kick-started the UK leg of her world tour in the Midlands last night, playing to a sell-out crowd of 14,000 at Birmingham’s LG Arena.
JLS fans were today reassured that the chart-topping band will still be appearing at Shropshire’s Osfest music festival – despite the group planning to break up later in the year.
Chart star Ms Dynamite lived up to her name when she put on a pulsating show for her Shropshire fans.
Global pop star Pink put on a breathtaking show for her fans at the LG Arena in Birmingham.
Madness frontman Suggs knew just where to go when the munchies struck after his show in Shropshire – his favourite pizza restaurant in the county
For the second successive year Shropshire Music Trust have presented a concert by the highly acclaimed The Sixteen, a choral group specialising in Renaissance music but by no means limited to that idiom.
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