Counterculture Music

05/06/2025

REMINDER: Steve Norman to join celebrated original Generation X drummer Mark Laff with XGENERATIONX on a UK tour in November 2025.

Full details, tour dates and tickets @ https://www.xgenerationx.com

“Generation X were the rebels with guitars, the punk poets of their time. Teaming up with Mark, Elizabeth and Michael to push these songs into a new era is going to be something really special, especially for me as a 16 year old kid at school and discovering punk. It was a changing point in my life and it galvanised me and my recently formed school band into action. Four years later we changed our name..to Spandau Ballet. I am so ready to turn up the volume and make some noise!” Steve Norman

19/03/2025

Stockport
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/glitch/glen-matlock/e-kzlqlq
Stockton-On-Tees
https://georgiantheatre.co.uk/live-events/glen-matlock/
Glasgow
https://www.seetickets.com/event/glen-matlock/the-rum-shack/3340656
Aberdeen
https://everythingculture.seetickets.com/event/glen-matlock/the-tunnels/3340657
Edinburgh
https://www.seetickets.com/event/glen-matlock/the-voodoo-rooms/3340658
Newcastle
https://www.ticketweb.uk/event/glen-matlock-the-cluny-tickets/13718664
Coventry
https://www.seetickets.com/event/glen-matlock/hmv-empire/3345213

04/06/2024

Suzi Ronson is on tour, talking about her time working with David Bowie and signing her book. Please come and see her - Pontefract (sold out), Manchester (hosted by John Robb), Wirral, Belfast, Scottish Borders.

21/03/2024

Excellent review of Suzi Ronson's memoirs in the i Paper:

Ronson's memoir is a refreshing change from the plethora of hagiographies that anoint Bowie to near-perfection

14/01/2024

Tickets: www.lustforlifetour.com

20/08/2021

Maniac Squat: after 25 years Colchester’s favourite art punks return with experimental concept album

Released: 23rd September 2021 Maniac Squat were the art punk band from Colchester who had a cult hit with ‘F**k Off’ in the mid-90s – a record which secured them the coveted single of the week slot…

05/01/2021

Great to see WITCH FEVER being recognised in NME's Top 100!!

"They’re bringing the horror-show back to rock without any gimmickry because real life is scary enough after all.
Why you’re going to love them: They look cool as f**k, they sound like a reckoning and they really mean it. Repent and rock out with Witch Fever when they tour with IDLES in 2021."

Meet the NME 100, the essential new artists set to take over 2021. Your new favourite artist is waiting...

11/12/2020

ROBERT IS VERY HAPPY TO BE INVOLVED WITH THE CURE'S PRIZE DRAW WHICH LAUNCHES TODAY TO RAISE VITAL FUNDS FOR ALL THE 'UNSUNG HEROES' WHO WORK BEHIND THE SCENES IN THE LIVE MUSIC INDUSTRY. HE IS GIVING AWAY HIS SCHECTER ‘FIBONACCI SEQUENCE’ BLACK ULTRACURE GUITAR - PLAYED AT EVERY SHOW IN 2016 - FOR THE BENEFIT OF UK MUSIC. TO BE IN WITH A CHANCE OF WINNING ENTER HERE https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/win-robert-smith-the-cure-guitar Crowdfunder Stagehand

10/12/2020

Watch and share our new campaign video, shining a light on our forgotten industry this Christmas. We should all be enjoying a full festive season of live eve...

07/09/2020

Whilst American bands pay hardly any money to tour the UK the British bands are now expected to pay even more to go to the USA wi

25/07/2020

Some of you may already have seen the announcement this morning of a £2.25 million Emergency Grassroots Music Venues Fund for GMVs in England (http://musicvenuetrust.com/2020/07/grassroots-music-venues-to-be-saved-by-government-cash/). We wanted to share a little more information to give you the context of this announcement.

England
- The Emergency GMV Fund opens today at midday and closes on 3 August. This pot of money is specifically for GMVs which need an urgent injection of cash to pay landlords and other creditors to tide them over until 30 September.
- Applications for up to £80K will be accepted but Arts Council England are hoping that venues will apply for small amounts (only what they really need) so as many GMVs as possible can be helped.
- A larger Cultural Recovery Fund will be launched soon and will accept applications for longer term support needed to weather the crisis.
- Venues can apply to both of these funds plus the newly reopened Supporting Grassroots Live Music Fund (the ring fenced pot launched by ACE last year).
- All funds are being administered by ACE for England but MVT's work is referenced throughout, they link to our GMV definition in the guidance for the Emergency Fund.

Scotland
- Two weeks ago Scottish Government Economy Minister Fiona Hyslop announced a £2.2 million fund for GMVs in Scotland (http://musicvenuetrust.com/2020/07/music-venue-trust-welcomes-2-2-million-fund-from-scottish-government-for-grassroots-music-venues/)
- MVT has been working with Creative Scotland and Scottish Government on the criteria for this fund and hope to have more news soon.

Wales & Northern Ireland
- News to come