Celebrating their 50th Anniversary as a band in 2018, Nazareth has marked the occasion with a hard rocking new album, Tattooed On My Brain, the first to feature new vocalist Carl Sentance (ex-Persian Risk, Geezer Butler Band, Don Airey). Formed in Dunfermline from the remains of The Shadettes in 1968, the band headed for [...]
PMW Property have announce that Screwfix is the first retailer to open for business on its new Optimum Business Park development in Swadlincote, South Derbyshire. Screwfix is the United Kingdom's largest multi channel retailer of trade tools, accessories and hardware products, and is a welcome addition to the wide range of services and retailers [...]
Roads Less Travelled is the superb new album from Martin Barre, best known as the guitarist with prog legends Jethro Tull for 43 years. Now that the Tull Superhighway has come to an end, Barre has been exploring the rich and fruitful alleys that he simply passed by whilst onboard the progressive juggernaut. There [...]
“This is probably the one and only time I’ll ever tour with an orchestra - unless it goes so well!” says Steve Hackett as he prepares to take his Genesis Revisited Tour on the road across the UK in October. The decision to undertake this tour was cemented following the critical success of last [...]
The smash hit musical show Rip It Up returns with a new theme and a new line-up. 2012 Strictly Come Dancing champion Louis Smith MBE is back and dancing alongside 2011 champion Harry Judd and Aston Merrygold whose early departure from the 2017 series was a shock. Together they will dance their way through [...]
Keith Emerson and Robert Berry were planning a follow-up to their 1988 3 recording at the time of Emerson’s death. Berry is now about to release the new album, a remarkable memorial to Emerson. When American singer and multi-instrumentalist Robert Berry was introduced to the legendary keyboard player Keith Emerson by Carl Palmer in [...]
PMW Property is delighted with the interest shown in its new Optimum Business Park development in Swadlincote, South Derbyshire. The Ashbourne-based property developer acquired the site, part of the Tetron Point industrial area, in December 2016 and has now sold or let almost all of the existing office space and units in their new [...]
Whilst Derbyshire is rich in customs and traditions, few set the pulse racing like the colour, vibrancy and music of morris dancing. Winster Morris, the oldest surviving of the Derbyshire morris teams is, this year, celebrating 40 years of dancing, the longest continuous period of dancing in its 150-plus years of history. To mark [...]
Thousands of people gathered at Derwent Dam, in Derbyshire’s Peak District, for a flypast of the Battle of Britain Flight’s Lancaster bomber, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the famous World War II Dambusters raid on the dams of the Ruhr Valley in Germany. Peace and tranquility at Derbyshire's Derwent [...]
3rd May 1958 When Harry Greatorex booked Harry Webb and his group for a performance in Derbyshire, he insisted on a change of name. Ripley, a quiet, unassuming little town on the fringe of the Derbyshire coal mining belt, is hardly the place one would associate with rock and roll history. The town is [...]