Live Rooms, Chester, 3 October 2018
The current line up of Spear is the longest serving to date and features Adrian Portas (New Model Army/Sex Gang Children - guitar), Craig Adams (Sisters of Mercy /The Cult/The Mission - bass guitar) and Phil Martini (Jim Jones and the Righteous Mind - drums). Long time Brandon cohort Steve [...]

Telfords Warehouse Chester, 18 September 2018
One of the very few live venues in Chester stands next to the city’s attractive and well-used Chester Canal, Telfords Warehouse is popular with local resisdents and visiting singer/songwriters. The focus of my attention tonight is Benjamin Folke Thomas whose last two album releases have impressed me greatly. Tonight he [...]

RNCM Manchester, 11 September 2018
Chilly Gonzales, the Grammy-winning Canadian pianist and entertainer, is known as much for the intimate piano touch of best-selling SOLO PIANO albums as for his showmanship and composition for award-winning stars. Gonzo, as he is known to close collaborators, aims to be a man of his time, approaching the piano with [...]

Bring It On 20th Anniversary Tour
Ritz Manchester, 2 September 2018
Gomez are an English indie rock band from Southport, comprising Ian Ball (vocals, guitar), Paul “Blackie” Blackburn (bass), Tom Gray (vocals, guitars, keyboards), Ben Ottewell (vocals, guitars) and Olly Peacock (drums, synths, computers). The band has three singers and four songwriters, employing traditional and electronic instruments. [...]

St Mary’s Creative Space, Chester, 22 June 2018
“Detroit’s Anna Burch presents her debut album, QUIT THE CURSE. Out on Heavenly Recordings. The nine songs that comprise QUIT THE CURSE come on sugary and upbeat, but their darker lyrical themes and serpentine song structures are tucked neatly into what seem at first just like uncommonly catchy [...]

Gorilla Manchester, 18 April 2018.
Idles Band Members
Joe Talbot (vocal)
Adam Devonshire (bass)
Mark Bowen (lead guitar)
Lee Kierman (rhythm guitar)
Jon Beavis (drums)
“We are an angry band. I think for all of us, we’ve always been drawn to passionate people which includes each other and more importantly, our ‘idols’. As the singer [Joe Talbot], my passion comes through anger [...]