2025 is an incredibly special year for Please Please You. It marks the 20th anniversary for the York-based live music...
The Scottish composers Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman are out on a tour of the UK in support of their...
Formed in 2013 on the Scottish Hebridean Isle of Eigg by the inimitable Johnny Lynch, Lost Map Records has become...
The good patrons of the Crescent Community Venue tonight experienced a mini-Celtic invasion courtesy of Pillow Queens and Adwaith who...
Allen Ginsberg’s poem ‘Howl’ deals with issues of repression, rebellion, drug misuse, the alienation of youth, mental illness, capitalism, industrialisation,...
The Folk Implosion, by way of introduction, is a musical craft co-piloted by Lou Barlow and John Davis. Taking off...
Ryan Davis is probably a name not familiar to many. One listen to his latest album, Dancing on the Edge...
It’s Independent Venue Week. This initiative, which began life in 2014, is the UK’s annual 7-day celebration of independent music and...
If, for some strange and inexplicable reason, you had just arrived from Saturn and somehow landed in the main concert...
Not too many people are familiar with the names Marina Allen and Kacey Johansing. At least that’s what a disappointingly small, though highly...
Everything’s gone green. From the cover of John Francis Flynn’s latest album, Look Over the Wall, See the Sky, as...
Well, now we can add yet another show to that long and most illustrious list of live music events that...
Buckle up for yet another great year of outstanding gigs from Please Please You, the York-based live music promoter who...
“Time is importantTiming is more importantWithout it a story can end” Here, on ‘Tender Years’, his penultimate song of the...
What with lockdown, rising production costs, rampant inflation, Brexit red tape, and often dwindling audience figures, the UK’s live music...
