Duncan Seaman

1 week ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Duncan Seaman

“What I want to do is something different,” he says, explaining how he felt it had been wrong for Andy Gill, the band’s late guitarist, to continue to use the Gang of Four name with a line-up that did not include any of the other original members.

2 weeks ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Duncan Seaman

For singer Bobby Gillespie, the group he formed in Glasgow in 1982 has always had one foot in the punk rock world that he loved as a teenager and the other on the dancefloor. “To us, punk and disco go hand in hand,” he tells The Yorkshire Post.

2 weeks ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Duncan Seaman

Off-screen Dennis Hopper lived just as hard – marrying five times and battling drug addiction. Yet he was also cultured – painting, sculpting, writing poetry, collecting art and becoming a noted photographer. Plenty, then, for songwriter Mike Scott to get his teeth into when creating the song cycle Life, Death and Dennis Hopper with his long-running band The Waterboys. “It happened organically,” says the 66-year-old Scot of the new album, out this week.

2 weeks ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Duncan Seaman

Off-screen Dennis Hopper lived just as hard – marrying five times and battling drug addiction. Yet he was also cultured – painting, sculpting, writing poetry, collecting art and becoming a noted photographer. Plenty, then, for songwriter Mike Scott to get his teeth into when creating the song cycle Life, Death and Dennis Hopper with his long-running band The Waterboys. “It happened organically,” says the 66-year-old Scot of the new album, out this week.

3 weeks ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Duncan Seaman

Back in the late 1990s when dance music was booming and Leeds was home to a number of superclubs, Andi Durrant was launching his broadcasting career as one of the country’s youngest DJs on the city-based stations Kiss 105 and Galaxy Yorkshire. The Mirfield-born DJ would go on to develop an award-winning career in radio, and 12 years ago he also launched a production company, This Is Distorted, with his long-term business partner Nick Riley.