Former Stranglers frontman Hugh Cornwell was one of the UK’s most successful post-punk singer/songwriters. At weekends he likes nothing more than a lie in, a vodka tonic and a spag bol.

Andy Richardson shares his own musings on music, mayhem and much more . . .

It is 21 years since Birmingham’s Symphony Hall opened its doors for the first time. Charlotte Cross looks at the history of the state-of-the-art building.

Blink-182 will be headlining their first UK arena tour in over eight years later this year, and have just announced their support acts.

Years of hard work has paid off for a Cannock musician who has released his first album.

Hello again. Goodbye! Yes, I’m afraid the time has come for me to shuffle off before you get bored of my tenuous meanderings and tire of my persistent references to past glories, writes Wolverhampton Civic Hall’s Jonn Penney.

As Snow White and her Dwarfs get ready to go home, a new season is starting.

David Hasselhoff’s appearance at the Symphony Hall in Birmingham in February has been cancelled due to “touring logistics problems”.

Singer Michael Weston King is appearing on stage at Newhampton Arts Centre in Wolverhampton tonight.

The statistics make for phenomenal reading. Never Shout Never, word-of-mouth sensation that is 20-year-old Missourian Christofer Drew, have racked up more than 2.5 million Facebook fans and a staggering 157 million plays at MySpace.

It is probably not easy transferring a largely acoustic album into a live spectacle but Ed Sheeran succeeded in doing so as he began a two-night run of sold-out shows at Wolverhampton Civic Hall last night.

Legendary DJ Paul Oakenfold brings his unique sounds to Birmingham Gatecrasher on Saturday, January 28. We caught up with him for a quick question and answer session.