We were deeply saddened to learn of Pete Shelley’s passing yesterday. A founding member of punk rock outfit Buzzcocks, who played some of their earliest shows at Band on the Wall during the era of the Manchester Musicians Collective –…
The Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco was awash with psychedelic rock bands during the late…
Amadou & Mariam’s personal and musical connection has endeared them to listeners around the world….
John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme is considered to be the tenor saxophonist’s magnum opus; an…
What makes an authentic blues artist? Some might say it is one whose words draw directly from their lived experience. Others mighty recognise authenticity in the character of an artist’s voice, or in the rudimentary technique that somehow draws achingly…
Intriguing, dedicated, elusive, resolute, scholarly, unpredictable, uncompromising. The accounts that have attempted to chronicle the…
John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme is considered to be the tenor saxophonist’s magnum opus; an…
Though fundamentally influenced by the West African funk of Fela Kuti and The Funkees, Manchester-based…
Intriguing, dedicated, elusive, resolute, scholarly, unpredictable, uncompromising. The accounts that have attempted to chronicle the storied life of trumpeter Dizzy Reece have painted the picture of an artist who is all of the aforementioned things. Yet not a one has been…
Nestled between countries in Europe, Asia and Africa, Greece is positioned at the crossroads of…
English traditional music is often associated with Romantic imaginaries of ‘green and pleasant lands’ and…
The traditional and popular music of Cuba is amongst the most widely known and enjoyed…
Band on the Wall presented a series of films about African music concerts which took place in Manchester from June to September, called We Face Forward, including AfroCubism. AfroCubism was a project which was first conceived in 1996. The plan…
Steve Pretty of Hackney Colliery Band talks us through one of his favourite trumpet phrases,…
Here, Terrace Martin & The Polly Seeds, featuring drummer Trevor Lawrence Jr., bassist Brandon Eugene…
Since his early discovery as a 16-year old keyboardist by world-famous Fela Kuti, who brought…
