Shields Gazette - Music Feed

Scooch singer David believes in Bonnie Eurovision entry

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:07:33 GMT

POP star David Ducasse is hoping Bonnie Tyler will fly the flag for the UK in tonight’s Eurovision Song Contest final.

Album review: Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood - Black Pudding

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:48:05 GMT

FORMER Screaming Tree Mark Lanegan is no stranger to collaborations, with The Afghan Wigs’ Greg Dulli, one time Belle & Sebastian member Isobel Campbell and rockers Queens of the Stone Age just some of his past partnerships.

Live review: The Specials, O2 Academy, Newcastle

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:53:50 GMT

LAST time I saw The Specials was in the same venue on the opening night of their 2009 reunion tour.

Frankie & The Heartstrings set to release second album

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:31:25 GMT

SUNDERLAND indie-rock darlings Frankie & The Heartstrings are set to embark on a tour to promote the release of their long-awaited second album.

Album review: Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:24:45 GMT

THIS New York quartet’s third studio set is being billed as their best yet - and in that sense already represents a victory for a group many predicted would be a passing fad upon their breakthrough in 2008.

Album review: The Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us Is the Killer

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:23:45 GMT

THIS New Jersey five-piece are one of the key bands in modern metal, having long outlasted most of their contemporaries from the initial metalcore explosion.

Album review: Gabrielle Aplin - English Rain

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:22:54 GMT

RISING to prominence last year, this 20-year-old topped the charts in December with her cover of Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s The Power of Love - thanks in no small part to its use on John Lewis’ Christmas adverts.

Little Mix star’s mum is 1D-elighted about stadium gig

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:29:59 GMT

THE mum of Little Mix’s Perrie Edwards is delighted about One Direction’s visit to the region.

One Direction swap Newcastle United for Sunderland

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:52:20 GMT

BOYBAND One Direction may be heading to Sunderland’s Stadium of Light last year – but it was Newcastle United who snapped the stars up first.

PICTURE SPECIAL: One Direction head for Sunderland

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:41:27 GMT

THE biggest boy band around today announced a massive stadium gig in Sunderland.

One Direction to play huge North-East stadium gig

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:23:44 GMT

POP sensations One Direction today announced they will kick off the UK leg of their 2014 world tour in the North East.

Album review: Primal Scream - More Light

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:58:16 GMT

THEIR 10th album overall, this is Bobby Gillespie and company’s first since 2008’s Beautiful Future, and follows a cycle of touring 1991’s iconic Screamadelica.

Album review: R.E.M. - Green (Deluxe version)

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:54:50 GMT

THIS is a 25th anniversary reissue of arguably R.E.M.’s first great album, not that their record company needs any such excuse to release it again.

Album review: She & Him - Volume 3

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:53:32 GMT

ONE of indie’s less likely collaborations, She & Him consists of Hollywood actress Zooey Deschanel and folkie singer-songwriter M. Ward - the pair having originally met during the filming of The Go-Getter.

Live review: Public Service Broadcasting, The Cluny, Newcastle

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:50:59 GMT

NOT many people can fill a distinguished venue like The Cluny less than a week after the release of their debut album.

Live review: Loudon Wainwright III, The Sage Gateshead

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:24:29 GMT

AMERICAN troubadour Loudon Wainwright III likes to joke that “death and decay” are his main songwriting obsessions these days.

Ex-Roxy Music drummer joins Lindisfarne

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:42:30 GMT

JARROW drummer Paul Thompson has joined legendary North-East folk-rock group Lindisfarne.

Album review: Savages - Silence Yourself

Fri, 10 May 2013 18:09:23 GMT

THIS all-female London quartet featured in practically every “ones-to-watch” list at the turn of the year - though they’re hardly an outfit you’d describe as the future of music.

Album review: Ghostpoet - Some Say I So I Say Light

Fri, 10 May 2013 18:06:26 GMT

HIP-hop has been bogged down with some pretty unfavourable stereotypes over the years, and for the most part you’d have to say there’s no smoke without fire.

Album review: Public Service Broadcasting - Inform - Educate - Entertain

Fri, 10 May 2013 18:03:30 GMT

WITH so many new bands looking to the past and willing to fit within distinct genre boundaries, it can be truly refreshing when a group like this London duo come along who are less easy to pigeonhole.