With a three-hour show, five costume changes and a host of famous faces, Sir Cliff Richard showed he still knows how to move it and groove it – at the grand age of 71.

“Original bands tend to get a lot of column inches, says Mike Holloway, singer with the HMV Band. “But covers bands don’t.”

Review: The delicious Jessie J wowed the sell-out crowd in Birmingham last night.

Rhythm and blues legends Dr Feelgood and ska favourites The Selecter will perform in Llanfyllin next year.

The Little Theatre in Donnington will perform its latest extravaganza of excerpts from popular operettas and opera, Top of the Ops, from November 3 to November 5.

Fresh from scooping 4 awards at the MOBO’s a few weeks ago, Jessie J descended on the West Midlands to open her Heartbeat Tour with the first of two sold-out gigs at the O2 Academy in Birmingham on Monday.

Ed Sheeran played to a sell-out crowd at the HMV Institute and hailed the venue as the “best I’ve ever played”.

“We find it difficult to play in Shrewsbury because a lot of pub venues tend to want cover bands, but we don’t do covers, we play our own material.” So says Mark Johnson, singer and guitarist with Judas Johnson.

The boos began even before the band took the stage – as a giant image of Margaret Thatcher spread itself across the backdrop.

Alabama-born rising stars The Pierces stop off at Birmingham’s Glee Club next week as part of their UK tour.

Review: A live show by Brit and Ivor Novello Award nominee Nerina Pallot has become as much about the between songs banter as it has about the music itself – a fact she acknowledged herself.

A Roy Orbison impersonator will take to the stage in Telford on Friday during a show featuring a five piece show band.