Looking back, Matt Berry wouldn’t have had it any other way. If his highly successful career as an actor/comedian/radio DJ hadn’t sent him on a different trajectory, he wouldn’t be where he is today: having just released his first album … Read more…

When he first warmed up for Wendy May at her famous Locomotion nights of the early ’90′s, Andy Lewis had no idea that he was embarking on a career that would see him helping to create the Camden Brit-Pop scene, … Read more…

Straight out of Wythenshawe, an area that hadn’t really been associated with the cutting edge of Manchester music since the post-punk days of the early Durutti Column et al, come Acid Jazz’s newest signing. Convention is a difficult little island … Read more…

“The Broken Vinyl Club are amazing live. Somebody should sign them; they would be huge” – Alan McGee The Broken Vinyl Club have brought back not only The Beatles’ harmonies, The Stones’ swagger, The Pretty Things’ attitude and The Monkees’ … Read more…

To celebrate Tony Christie’s 50th anniversary in music, Acid Jazz put him back in the studio to make an album that takes him back to his musical roots. ‘Now’s The Time!’ is Tony Christie’s nineteenth studio album over an illustrious … Read more…

You can hear it in the opening bars of the opening number. It’s the sound of a real singer, in a proper recording studio taking on the blues and winning hands down. 21-year-old Jasmine Kara’s ability to bare her soul … Read more…