Vicente Amigo In Concert ★★★★
Leading flamenco guitarist and Latin Grammy Award winner Vicente Amigo comes to London as part of Sadler’s Wells Flamenco Festival
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Midge Ure – Voice and Visions Tour ★★★★★
Midge Ure’s Voice and Visions tour revisits two of Ultravox’s albums from the 1980s and finds some gems!
Celebrating Yazoo’s Upstairs At Eric’s at 40
Upstairs at Eric’s by Yazoo is 40 years old today. The Recs pays tribute to Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke’s influential 1982 album and looks at what made it such and enduring synthpop classic.
Barbra Streisand: 80
Today marks the 80th birthday of global superstar Barbra Streisand. The Recs decided to pay tribute to this enduring and formidable singer-actress-activist.
Minute Taker’s Song for Ukraine
The Manchester-based singer-songwriter releases brand new single, I Don’t Understand, to raise funds for the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal
The Recs’ Valentines Day Soundtrack
Every Valentine’s Day dinner needs a perfect song. The Recs’ suggests some tunes to fit any amour!
Token: The Return of Dubstar
The 90s electropop doyens of bittersweet dance music return with Token, a tempting taster of their forthcoming album, Two.
Laurence O’Brien: A Rising Music Star
The Recs hails twenty-two year old singer Laurence O’Brien as a rising star vocalist you should seek out.
Spotify under pressure to make changes
Spotify and other streaming services are under pressure to pay musicians and songwriters fairly following a new report by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Parliamentary Committee. The Recs looks at the implications for the music industry.
Bucks Fizz: Ten Top Tunes
While we are marking 40 years today since Making Your Mind Up won the Eurovision Song Contest for the UK, our guest writer Tony Kavanagh has chosen ten terrific tracks from across four decades to celebrate Bucks Fizz / The Fizz!