Duncan Seaman

Once a field of dreams where the biggest names in pop and rock played, since the 1980s Roundhay Park has rarely hosted artists of the magnitude of Madonna, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen or The Rolling Stones.

The brainchild of songwriter Paul McNulty, Abandoned Buildings are a five-piece assembled from various bands in Bradford and Leeds with a shared love of shoegaze indie rock and dream pop.

Electronic music legends Soft Cell, aka singer and frontman Marc Almond and multi-instrumentalist and producer Dave Ball, are set to release Danceteria, their sixth and final studio album, on the September 25 via Republic of Music.

After a two-year hiatus Skylights, the York/Leeds indie rock band, are back with arguably their strongest song to date – and the group have high hopes that it might even get to number one in the UK vinyl charts.

Teddy Thompson’s 11th studio album, Never Be The Same, finds the now-50-year-old returning to his singer-songwriter roots after a temporary excursion down country roads.

American Express presents Roundhay Festival has announced that the extraordinary classical music experience, All Things Orchestral, will be coming to Leeds for the first time next month.

Since graduating from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, Abel Selaocoe has become one of the most in-demand talents in classical music, with concerts all over the world.

Grassroots venues have been a rite of passage for many a future chart star – and British soul singer Omar has such fond memories of them that this month he is returning to small, independently-run clubs for a national tour in association with the Music Venue Trust.

In Belfast on the latest leg of a 34-date tour of the UK and Europe, Kiefer Sutherland sounds like a man who is enjoying the life of a travelling musician. “We’re having a lot of fun and I hope everybody else is too,” says the British-Candian actor turned singer, songwriter and band leader.

As befits a musician who has often carried a slightly professorial air, Thomas Dolby these days devotes much of his time to lecturing at one of America’s most prestigious academic institutions, the Peabody Conservatory at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.