It may only be the second day of this year’s Leeds Jazz Festival, but the fourth edition of this annual...
As we fast approach the middle of March, the Howard Assembly Room’s spring season has already hit its considerable stride...
With their huge sense of creative adventure and fusion of a wide range of musical styles, the French group Sarāb...
Sunday night at the Howard Assembly Room. It is always a special time and place. And the appearance here tonight...
“If it’s me and yer granny on bongos, it’s the Fall.” Thus spoke Mark E. Smith, singer and frontman of the Fall,...
It may seem like a very long way from Norcross Prison to the Howard Assembly Room. The former is a...
I can remember the very first time I saw Bernard Butler in concert as if it were yesterday, even though...
Welcome to Lau-Land, the Leeds edition. The music festival curated by the folk trio Lau has previously seen action last...
At last year’s GRAMMYs – the annual ceremony run by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognise outstanding...
Gavin Bryars turned 80 years of age in January. To celebrate the occasion, Phaedra Ensemble – the New Music collective who were founded...
The Neil Cowley Trio burst onto the jazz scene in 2006 and quickly blazed a trail through it with the...
It is World Refugee Day. Each year on the 20th of June the world celebrates this event to honour those...
Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another, often for reasons of war, famine, economic necessity,...
I first caught Thea Gilmore in concert at Manchester University Union in September 1999. In what, on the face of it, was...
The last time I saw Lanterns on the Lake in concert was September 2021. The occasion was that of the Long Division...
