“pure and easy”

WHEREVER you may find The Silhouette Band – whether it’s at their Wednesday night social or the many gigs they play at local venues – you’ll always hear rampant foot tapping and cheer. It’s the kind o

Wendy Rigg is planning a summer of festival fun – but what is it about nostalgic music that makes us feel so good?

Poetry that blends music, mortality and fame

The BBC Proms changed the face of classical music when ‘the people’s festival’ was launched in 1895. The perennially popular event features some of the nation’s favourite tunes from composers inspired by the countryside of the British Isles. Here Kitty Corrigan selects her top ten

Lea Kampmann, Teitur Lassen et al Stunt Records STUCD24092 It seems fitting that the small archipelago of the Faroe Islands, set in the chilly North Atlantic between Iceland and Scotland and now notor

LIKE THE WEATHER in Scotland, the country’s pop music often feels overcast with a chance of showers. “There’s a slight doom and gloom element to Scottish music,” guitarist Gregor Philp says with a smi