Two years on from his last visit, the enfant terrible was back in town....

If it’s the end of August/start of September, then it must be Bingley and time for the best value weekend of music in the North....

Hard to believe, but it’s nearly fifteen years since the great northern indie explosion that saw the Kaiser Chiefs and the Arctic Monkeys burst onto the scene together....

‘Did I really just see that and how am I going to describe it to people who weren’t that lucky?’...

After that it all got a bit weird....

Great music. Great venue. Great weather! Welcome to the best party ever at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2017 at Hull, May 27th & 28th....

Call it the ‘Nashville Effect’ or the ‘C2C Effect’, call it the ‘Whispering Bob Effect’, but British country music is on the up....

Imagine the best festival in the world. Top name artists performing every night. Support acts that would be headliners at any other event. Great food. A location right in the middle of one of the most famous parks in one of the greatest cities in the world. Then imagine...

There’s nothing subtle about The Adelphi in Hull....