Michael Price

As temperature records tumbled 72 hours ahead of Tramlines 2022, fast forward to the opening day and predictably Sheffield was back to its normal 25 degrees cooler and wetter self…FFS.  Fortunately, the pa […]

Following the success of Live@Leeds, southern near-neighbour Wakefield has managed to create and establish its own boutique citywide all-day festival of its own. Formed in 2011, the 11th hosting of Long Division […]

A former colleague living in the Calder Valley town of Todmorden once bemoaned ‘Everywhere’s an hour from Tod’. Roughly halfway between Leeds and Manchester, that part of the world really does feel like the back […]

West Coast pop quartet Warpaint aren’t the most prolific of bands but the quality control has always remained reassuringly high. With surprises aplenty throughout their first three records, Radiate Like This h […]

The Steel City’s weekend festival is now a must-attend event, a smash hit with Yorkshire music fans since its 2009 launch. Last year proved a triumphant return, eager concertgoers back in droves following the p […]

The release of the eagerly awaited follow-up to last February’s enigmatic, sometimes impenetrable Black Country, New Road debut For the First Time has been overshadowed by the recent and unexpected depar […]

Emerging from various components of the West Yorkshire DIY music scene, Yard Act frontman James Smith, formerly of Post War Glamour Girls, and Menace Beach ex-bassist Ryan Needham ended up as housemates. This […]

Is Led Zeppelin IV, aka Four Symbols, the most written about record in the history of rock? Certainly seems like it, and with the 50th anniversary of its November 1971 release, the tsunami of words written about […]

November saw the Australian trio, formerly known as the Dirty MA’S, finally fulfil their long-overdue Yorkshire appearance. Like many of their contemporaries, Covid enforced more postponements than a Scottish l […]

Topping a Grammy Award-winning record invariably proves a big ask. Throw in a shared global pandemic that’s taken away the bulk of our livelihood and that ups the ante even further. Three years and more studio t […]

Marylander Lindsey Jordan and her alter-ego Snail Mail continues to blaze a trail for post-millennial Stateside singer-songwriters. Jordan’s latest offering Valentine sees no let-up in her uncanny knack for c […]

A little known fact outside football anorak circles involves Wolverhampton Wanderers being the first men’s professional football team to be crowned champions in all four of the English league divisions during t […]

There’s nothing new to be said about ABBA not previously uttered ad-nauseum. Most noteworthy is probably their swift transformation from hawking holiday camp schlager and catchy yet derivative glam (listen to ‘ […]

As The Specials started to disintegrate with the world seemingly at their feet, their misfortune simultaneously reflected the increasingly polarised state of our nation. With unemployment passing two million, […]

Armed with my brand new radio cassette player courtesy of proud parents whose son had just passed his eleven-plus, I settled down to tape my very first BBC Radio 1 Top 40.

In the years before ‘free’ music bec […]

It’s already half a decade since the release of Here, the record behind Teenage Fanclub’s welcome return to the UK top ten for the first time in almost twenty years. Belated follow-up Endless Arcade, appears wit […]

Part of me died inside upon first witnessing Michael Stipe lip-syncing in the ‘Losing My Religion’ video, something the enigmatic R.E.M. frontman previously vowed never to do. That personal betrayal marked the b […]

Anyone watching Liverpool’s recent 7-2 drubbing minus the irksome canned crowd noise would’ve heard the unforgettable opening salvo of ‘Paranoid’ across the Villa Park PA no fewer than seven times that evening […]

“Five years, what a surprise,” to quote the man himself in the curtain-raiser from his definitive long-player The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Indeed we’ve all been crying for the l […]

Remember live music, anyone? Deprived of the live gig experience since March I’m enduring my longest stretch without seeing a band in-person since birth to AC/DC. Even socially distanced streamed shows are not […]