Duncan Seaman

England, Leeds

Music Writer at Yorkshire Evening Post

Music writer at the Yorkshire Post. Views are my own. MD ANT

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BBC Radio 2's Vernon Kay to broadcast VE Day party from East Yorkshire

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

Vernon Kay is taking his BBC Radio 2 show to Beverley in East Yorkshire for a very special VE Day Tea Party tomorrow. The 51-year-old presenter will be broadcasting live between 9.30am and 12pm from a special listener’s hometown with a show featuring fantastic guests and live music performances.
Tanya Vital on Bradford's Bassline Symphony

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

Now, as part of Bradford City of Culture 2025, the connection is being celebrated in Bassline Symphony, a collaboration between the Orchestra of Opera North, arranger Katie Chatburn and leading bassline artists Jamie Duggan, DJ Q and TS7. The concert has been curated by Tanya Vital, the Yorkshire actor, voiceover artist, playwright, event producer, and founder of Vital Culture UK, an award-winning creative agency.
Sally Potter: 'Songs are not good as lectures'

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

Now comes a follow-up, Anatomy, comprised of a dozen self-penned songs, which is out this week on the indie label Bella Union. Flanked by a grand piano, keyboard and microphones as she talks to The Yorkshire Post via video, the 75-year-old explains that music was an integral part of family life while she was growing up.
The All Seeing I: 'There wasn’t a plan, it was just messing around'

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

Comprising Dean Honer, Richard Barrett and Jason Buckle, they had an international dancefloor hit with their song Beat Goes On, while Walk Like a Panther – with lyrics by Jarvis Cocker – took the Steel City crooner Tony Christie into the UK top ten for the first time since 1971. Its follow-up, 1st Man in Space, featuring Phil Oakey of The Human League, also grazed the top 30.
Cold War Steve: 'These positive pieces come few and far between for me'

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

His collages, which scathingly satirise contemporary politics, have become a social media phenomenon since the Brexit referendum. But Cold War Steve has something rather different in mind for a project that he’s working on for the Get Together festival in Sheffield. The collaborative artwork is intended to celebrate the city’s community – and he is seeking suggestions from local people about who and what to include.
Unbelievable Truth: 'The music picked up right where it left off'

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

Ahead of some UK dates to promote their EP Citizen’s Band, The Yorkshire Post spoke to singer and guitarist Andy Yorke and drummer Nigel Powell. It’s 25 years since Unbelievable Truth split up after the release of your second album, Sorrythankyou. In between the three of you have had separate forays into music. What brought the three of you back together again as a band? Andy: We played some shows in 2023 for the 25th anniversary of our first album, Almost Here.
Andy Bell: 'It's amazing what you can do when you have these aspirations in your heart'

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

Best known as the singer in synth pop duo Erasure, Andy Bell has been steadily amassing quite a solo catalogue over the past 20 years. Alongside his more esoteric adventures as ‘polysexual’ character Torsten – a collaboration with playwright Barney Ashton-Bullock – the 61-year-old is about to release Ten Crowns, his third album under his own name.
Andy Bell: 'It's amazing what you can do when you have these aspirations in your heart'

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

Talking to The Yorkshire Post via video, the Peterborough-born vocalist says all these extra-curricular activities allow him to try out different approaches to the music he makes with Vince Clarke in Erasure. “I think it’s just a really healthy thing to do,” he says. “Vince and I have a great working relationship and personal relationship and when we go off and do different things it gives you some news.
Richard Norris: 'I love the idea of music that’s got a kind of widescreen effect'

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

Last year he released a much-praised memoir, Strange Things Are Happening, through White Rabbit Books, and this month comes a compilation of offbeat psychedelia from around the world that he has curated. Its title, Mr Norris Changes Brains, was inspired by a jocular social media post by the cult singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock.
Apollo Junction: 'It’s a good indication that we were testing ourselves'

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

Apollo Junction, the Leeds, based indie band, have unveiled a new single and announced details of their fourth album. The five-piece have teamed up with Briana Corrigan, formerly of The Beautiful South, for the song Settle Down, which they describe as “a phone call to the memories of the past, from today”.

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