For a musician who has just returned to South Yorkshire after a 16-hour flight from Taiwan, Mat Welsh is looking remarkably perky as he sits chatting to The Yorkshire Post.

It’s December 1984. I’ve come down to breakfast, dressed and ready for school. I’m a fourth year student obsessed with pop music, and the television is on. The new singles chart is being counted down,...

With an album, Swim Like An Eagle, just released and a Christmas EP also about to land on streaming services, singer-songwriter Ric Neale seems to be winding up – rather than down – for the festive s...

Last week’s budget left middle-income families anxious and angry. The party is turning its back on voters it can little afford to lose, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The journalist and editor also led the British Board of Film Classification and served as the senior lay member of the Church of England Andreas Whittam Smith, the co-founder of the Independent newspaper and a former president of the British Board of Film Classification, has died aged 88. Whittam Smith was also the first editor of the Independent and served as First Church Estates Commissioner, the senior lay member of the Church of England, from 2002 to 2017. Continue reading...

Glisten Trick sound like they’ve been sitting in a dim basement too long, tuning their nerves to the hum of fluorescent doom until the walls start breathing back. Their forthcoming EP, Death Cult Rain...

Thirteen years on from his last concerts in England with Dirty Three, Warren Ellis is looking forward to reuniting with bandmates Mick Turner and Jim White for a short tour around the UK.

Scarborough and Bognor Regis among places where water is so polluted it is not recommended for swimming One in seven (13%) of England’s bathing waters are rated as polluted, and one in 14 so polluted they are not recommended for swimming. Famous beaches including Bognor Regis, Scarborough’s South Bay and Littlehaven Beach in South Shields were all rated “poor” in the latest classifications from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), which means they are not recommended for swimming. Continue reading...

Ed Kuepper and Ivor Hay revive memories of one of Australia’s greatest bands in an action-packed set.

Louder Than War is Hosting Its First Festival In Manchester called LOUDER THAN WAR LIVE in March 2026 - Signed Up Form

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Details of how to secure a place at Paul Coventry's book launch.

The well-established festival celebrating music writing has its strongest year yet with an impressive line-up sparking many thought-provoking discussions.

Information on the The Fall Futures and Pasts Festival: A Celebration of Fifty Years of The Fall

The well-established festival celebrating music writing has its strongest year yet with an impressive line-up sparking many thought-provoking discussions.