Oktoberfest is an eighteen day festival held annually in Munich. It has evolved into the worlds biggest beer festival and is visited every year by six million people from around the world for it’s unique and lively atmosphere which incorporating music , food and fun fairs. The past decade has seen [...]

My weather expert neighbour assures me that the current rain is going to pass and there will be at least a few weekends of fine weather over the coming months and despite the terrible weather last weekend we thought , optimistically , we would blog about summer party entertainment. There’s nothing quite like a long [...]

School prom season is with us once again and this year it’s bigger than ever. My English daughters are enjoying almost the exact same experience as their cousins over in North America , where the school prom craze originated from in the first place , and Live Music Management are [...]

There is no doubt that the past ten years have seen some seismic shifts in the variety of paid gigs available for jobbing function bands. Some of the pub level shows have disappeared as the pub and club market continue to be hit by the recession and peoples social habits. [...]

The definition of a guilty pleasure is ,in essence , something that you enjoy which , deep down , you know you shouldn’t be enjoying. When Sean Rowley first applied this concept to music with a strand on his BBC Radio London show there was still a “pre ipod shuffle” [...]