Sam Fender has said the north-east of England is the "best region in the country" after collecting his Mercury Prize in ...

Sam Fender’s 2025 People Watching Australian tour will spotlight a stellar support cast including Esha Tewari, Beddy Rays, Sycco, Day We Ran and Holly Humberstone — bridging the best of Australian and ...

The Mercury prize almost always produces surprises – among them, Gomez not The Verve in 1998, and English Teacher not Charli XCX in 2024 – but perhaps the biggest surprise is that the prize has ...

Singer-songwriter Sam Fender has won the 2025 Mercury Prize for his third album People Watching. The announcement was made at the award ceremony in Newcastle on Thursday night, marking the first time ...

Indie singer Sam Fender won the UK's prestigious Mercury Prize on Thursday with his chart-topping album "People Watching", as the award ceremony moved out of London for the first time. The crowd in ...

Having spent years in the wilderness, with no indication of when (or if) they’d return, Yorkshire alt.rock favourites ...

The singer, 31, toom home the presitigous award at the ceremony in Newcastle on Thursday, the first time the ceremony has been held outside London. The Mercury Prize is an annnual prize given to the ...

In fact, follow-up Marshmellow Lane — slated for a major label release in 1992 — never saw the light of day (a version of the album was finally released via Townsend Music in 2016). As Blur, Oasis and ...

Gazing in that mirror, he committed to art in an instant, and just as swiftly all else was stripped away: his scholarship, ...

This is just one of many shows that have been announced for 2026 in Liverpool. This year, the city hosted the likes of Lana ...

As one of Springsteen’s more unsubtle tunes, it’s also a great choice to test your hi-fi setup. It may be relatively ...

The cover photos on reissues of Rory Gallagher's Against The Grain (released 10/31/75) are much preferable to the original ...