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Maximo Park and Embrace join Hardwick Live festival line-up Nile Rodgers and CHIC, Rag’n’Bone Man, Razorlight and Rebecca Ferguson are also due to perform at the festival in County Durham Updated Get the latest County Durham news and updates delivered straight to your inbox - sign up for free email updatesInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ...

EVERYTHING Everything are coming to Warrington as part of the return of Rivfest. The twice Mercury Prize nominated band, who have three UK top five albums, are one of the headliners for the three-day charity festival which is, this year, taking place at Golden Square between August 6 and 8. The other headliners are Hacienda icon Graeme Park, who is widely credited as one of the original founders of the UK’s rave/club scene, and Birchwood’s own emerging singer-songwriter Abi Rose Kelly. Singer-songwriter Abi Rose Kelly with the festival organisers pictured by Dave Gillespie Abi...

Embrace MUSIC fans at one of the North-East’s main events this summer can now enjoy more top acts, with the announcement of additional big names. Indie rock bands Maximo Park and Embrace will be entertaining fans with decades of hits when they take to the stage at Hardwick Festival, which takes place from 21 to 22 August at County Durham’s Hardwick Hall Hotel. Maximo Park formed in Newcastle in the early 2000s and have gone on to perform around the world and produce seven studio albums, with popular singles including Our Velocity, Graffiti and Books From Boxes. The group will tak...

7.5/10 One of the adulatory remarks showered on Field Music’s 2018 album Open Here was that if its nuanced, articulate re-imagining of indie rock didn’t finally earn them the success they deserved they might as well parade around their native Sunderland naked to see if that did the trick instead. Critical acclaim of course doesn’t pay the bills, as most artists are only too aware, but conditions for the Brewis siblings have seemed at times unnecessarily harsh, even coming to the point of them facing eviction from their own studio. Maybe causes have an effect; part of a loosely assoc...

154 Views John McGeoch [far-right in the photo above]invented angular rock. His incendiary and highly ambitious guitar riffs electrified the post-punk era, the Scotsman’s distinctive style the melodic spine for the classic albums of Magazine, Visage, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Public Image Ltd. It wasn’t until the Banshees’ fifth album, A Kiss in the Dreamhouse in 1982, that his reputation received widespread acclaim. Yet it was with Howard Devoto’s influential Magazine four years earlier that McGeoch first made his mark as a major talent, the blistering guitars during th...