Sam Fender’s rise from his debut song in 2017 to the top of the album chart with Seventeen Going Under this year is the stuff of legends, but his first arena gig in the area that formed him is something else entirely. The 27-year-old from North Shields enters the stage amid a sea of flags […]

Californian by birth, Oregonian by choice Margo Cilker has spent years honing her story-songs on the road, touring throughout the United States and the Basque Country of Spain, where she created a covers band and sang songs by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bob Dylan, and Neil Young. “You have to face your fears,” she says, “and […]

The placards were the first thing Danzal Baker noticed when he arrived at Arnhem Land’s airport two years ago. He laughs, “They said, ‘Welcome home Danzal Baker AKA Baker Boy!’” Baker returned home after years of performing his catchy and original hip-hop music across the country and around the world — on festival lineups, headline […]