Image © Jamie NoiseAn intimate evening of stories and song promised as extra dates are added to Will Young tour Due to overwhelming demand, Will Young is adding more shows to his Light It Up Live 2024 Tour in Falmouth, Gateshead, Manchester, Bristol, Cardiff and a third London date. To celebrate his forthcoming new album Light It Up, Will is embarking on his most intimate tour yet – taking shape as an up close and personal evening of acoustic performances of all his hits and new songs, stories and conversation. The 50-plus-date UK tour will kick off in September through to December. About the ..read more

Top 20 B-Sides of the 80s We remember some of the best B-sides of the 80s… By Barry Page It’s easy to forget in today’s era of streaming and downloading just what a treasure trove of additional material the flipsides of vinyl singles offered in the creatively fertile 80s. If you were unlucky, your favourite 45 would include either an instrumental, a live track, or, worse still, a previously released album cut, but for every dud there was a veritable gem. The humble B-side offered many acts the opportunity to experiment in the studio and present themselves in a different light, while others tre ..read more

Let’s go girls… Shania Twain celebrates summer shows with limited edition release Shania Twain has announced that she will be releasing a special limited edition LP to celebrate her UK and Ireland tour this summer. Featuring a number of best-selling hits, Greatest Hits Summer Tour Edition 2024, will include newly remastered versions of multi-platinum tracks such as Man! I Feel Like A Woman!, That Don’t Impress Me Much, and You’re Still The One’ as well as the single Giddy Up! from her recent UK No.1 album, Queen Of Me. Tracklisting Side A 1 Forever And For Always (Pop Red Edit) 2 I’m Gonna G ..read more

Pet Shop Boys – Nonetheless (Parlophone) Neil Tennant is in the form of his life as the synth-pop legends celebrate going back home with one of their most diverse albums to date Returning to their original label of Parlophone 12 years after Elysium looked like being the final album on their natural home, Pet Shop Boys mark the occasion with their most stately work since that polarising record. Neil Tennant promised CP last year that “The strings are back”, which is in truth a worrying sign for those fans who found Elysium and Release just a little too sombre. That their new producer James For ..read more

The Brand New Heavies: Andrew Levy, Angela Ricci and Simon BartholomewThe Brand New Heavies celebrate 30 years of Brother Sister with UK tour Released in 1994, The Brand New Heavies’ third album, Brother Sister, changed everything for the band. Propelled by the classic singles Dream On Dreamer, Midnight At The Oasis and Back To Love, the record achieved huge success and cemented their position as the pioneers of Acid Jazz. Still sounding as fresh and timeless as it did back then, the group featuring original members Andrew Levy and Simon Bartholomew with the vocalist Angela Ricci, will pe ..read more

Image © Danny CliffordSqueeze celebrate 50 years with a live tour and not one, but two new albums Here we meet songwriters Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook to hear about life in one of pop’s most English of bands… Few bands live long enough to salute their 50th anniversary, and at various points in Squeeze’s life, it looked like they’d be among those that wouldn’t make that milestone. After all, since forming in 1974 they’ve split twice, in 1982 and 1999, with its core members – Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook – barely speaking to each other in the years between. But there’s something about ..read more

From new wave  anthems to synth-driven  gems and pure pop, the Middlesex-born singer boasts a wildly eclectic back catalogue. Here we present our Kim Wilde – Album By Album Guide: KIM WILDE (1981) Discovered by the one-man hit factory Mickie Most and guided by songwriter and 50s teen idol father Marty, Kim Wilde arrived on the music scene in 1981 with a considerable early rock and roll pedigree. But her self-titled debut album soon proved that she had little interest in being the female answer to Shakin’ Stevens. Indeed, featuring prog rockers The Enid on backing, its forward-facin ..read more

Pop icon Janet Jackson brings Together Again tour to the UK Janet Jackson has revealed that she will be extending her Together Again tour to Europe later this year. Off the back of her highly successful and sold out tour in North America, the singer will be playing four dates in the UK. Her shows in Birmingham, London, Glasgow and Manchester will be Jackson’s first in the UK since her iconic Glastonbury Festival performance in 2019. The European leg of this tour will start in Paris, France on 25 September before making multiple stops in the UK, Germany and Belgium before concluding in Amsterd ..read more

Left without any band members following a Malcolm McClaren-led mutiny, Adam regrouped stronger than ever and made the seemingly unlikely transformation from leather-clad abrasive post-punks to vibrant chart darlings with Kings Of The Wild Frontier  The scent of revolution hangs heavy in the air. Enter a motley crew of reprobates (who nonetheless look so dashing), arriving on a thunderous roll of tribal drums to herald in a new fashion. A new royal family, a wild nobility, with their own soundtrack to boot: Antmusic. At their head, their shamanic leader, Adam Ant. Released on 7 Novem ..read more

Madness Theatre Of The Absurd Presents C’est La Vie (Enhanced Edition) to feature five new studio tracks One of the UK’s most beloved British bands, Madness, have announced an expanded version of their first studio album to top the UK charts. Theatre of the Absurd Presents C’est La Vie (Enhanced Edition) is set for release on 7 June 2024 and will feature five brand new studio tracks recorded during their C’est La Vie album sessions. The new Madness songs are: I’d Do Anything (If I Could), No Reason, Hello Sun, Long Goodbye and Culture Vulture. Also on the album are seven live tracks recorded ..read more