You know what you are getting from a Chris Rea performance. Virtuoso slide guitar, gravelly, road worn vocals, a great backing band, and songs about love, family, friendship and the road – and this concert proved to be excellent entertainment from the start.
The musical collectives Afro Celt Sound System and Dhol Foundation are not known for being shrinking violets.
And The Rest Of Me Floats is an important and timely examination of what gender means in the 21st Century.
Railway, stations and trains have always been a rich source of ideas for storytellers, so it is no real surprise that writers of ghost stories and tales of the supernatural return repeatedly to the idea.
The fast rising folk ensemble The Willows performed an action packed set of music when they played to an enthusiastic audience at Lichfield Guildhall.
The amps were turned up to 11 when the American rock band Skinny Molly appeared at Lichfield Guildhall.
The tribute band Meat Loud gave Bat out of Hell and many of Meatloaf’s other songs some fine interpretation when they played at Lichfield Guildhall, 40 years since the iconic album was released.
A festive musical treat is coming to the Lichfield Guildhall as John Kirkpatrick’s Carolling and Crumpets comes to the city.
Many shows are making important – but controversial – points about issues that are facing the world at the moment, but it is the colour and passion of that sets this part-spoof, part-deadly serious character study above the average.
In Tubular Bells for Two, two musicians – Aidan Roberts and Daniel Holdsworth – play between them more than 20 instruments, ranging from all types of guitars, keyboards, tin whistle, vocals, drums and kazoo.
The award-winning Danish band Habadekuk played a lively set of largely instrumental music when they appeared at Lichfield Guildhall as part of their national tour.
A sold out Lichfield Garrick audience saw four musicians pay tribute to one of the most influential guitar bands of the 1960’s, when Into the Shadows appeared there.
