San Fernando police are investigating a break-in at the Skiffle Bunch Steel Orchestra after several high-value electronic items were reported stolen. According to police, Anthony Sparks, the caretaker ...

Heritage Petroleum Company Ltd has announced it will end its long-standing sponsorship of the Skiffle Bunch Steel Orchestra. In a letter dated November 27 and addressed to Skiffle manager Carl Anthony ...

Music is often cyclical but not always chronological, which was certainly the case when the man who helped put skiffle on the map (and was a fundamental influence on the future Beatles) died in 2002, ...

The Beatles have previewed their upcoming Anthology 4 by unearthing an unreleased take on the Help! classic “I’ve Just Seen a Face.” Recorded at Abbey Road Studios (Studio Two) on June 14, 1965 — just ...

Billy Bragg: You were an 11-year-old schoolboy when Lonnie Donegan's Rock Island Line hit the charts. How did you get access to this new guitar-based music? Van Morrison: The guitar wasn’t really that ...

Into umbrous, ill-ventilated underground caverns, seemingly as necessary to life as the air-raid shelters where some of the visitors were born, thousands of bemused young Londoners squeeze nightly to ...

Maybe the space-time continuum is in play, or perhaps my imagination just goes wild at times. Capturing my mind this morning — it’s Thursday, 10 April 2025, and we moored at E berth in Cape Town’s ...

A meeting at a church fete in South Liverpool changed popular music forever. It was July 6, 1957 and a 15-year-old Paul McCartney was invited to the event at St Peter's Church in Woolton by his school ...

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Noisy Vampires from Dereham, Gorleston, Lowestoft, Norwich and Snettisham, were on the prowl across Norfolk years ago…and how the people loved them. It was a popular name for “skiffle kids” when they ...

George Harrison was the archetypal lead guitarist. Like all great players, his style was the result of an eclectic mix of influences. Big Bill Broonzy, Django Reinhardt, Slim Whitman, Chet Atkins, ...