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BBC Radio 1 presenter Jack Saunders has reassured bands and labels that he will continue to support alternative music. As exclusively revealed this month by Music Week, station head Aled Haydn Jones has entrusted Saunders with a brand new multi-genre show, Radio 1’s Future Artists, which will air at 10pm on Monday to Wednesday. ItRead more

This year promised to offer grand economic progress for the major music companies. As the opening stages of 2020 passed us by, Vivendi invited in a Tencent-led consortium to buy a slice of Universal Music Group, as Warner Music Group readied a now-nailed IPO on the NASDAQ. In the background, licensing deals with the likesRead more

Would you prefer to hear easy listening tracks when eating a healthy meal of organic vegetables and fruits and then a large cheesy pizza whilst pressing play on your kitchen disco playlist? Interesting thoughts really because surely music and food are very closely linked and perhaps something we often don’t especially think about or considerRead more

The influence of African style has always held such an important and impactful role in the developing culture of art, music & fashion and this theme will be explored in the forthcoming BBC 4 ‘African Renaissance series ‘When Art meets Power’, produced by Alex Brisland and presented by Afua Hirsh. This programme excitingly looks toRead more

On behalf of all the team at Quite Great PR we just would like to congratulate everyone involved in the Jack Leslie campaign including Matt Tiller and his fundraising team for hitting their goal of £100,000. This in turn will enable them to take the next step and get a commemorative statue created in memoryRead more

Hi I’m Harriet and I’m one of Quite Great’s in-house writers. Today I’m bringing you a post about all things festivals! It all started back in 1968, a great year for art, romance (or free love, whichever you prefer) and serendipity, as the Beatles animated film Yellow Submarine hit the big screen just a fewRead more

Here in the willful west, the vast majority of us are determined to resist ageing. Our collective fear of death has never felt so prevalent, as we move away from organised religion and the idea of an afterlife, towards the wellness industry, in search of the elixir of everlasting life on earth — or rather,Read more

Portraits have always held an important place in the history of art for both artists and patrons. Initially commissioned as the only way wealthy patrons could display their importance and wealth in society artists were chosen to portray the most flattering images of the sitter, from the famous images of Henry VIII and his futureRead more

The COVID pandemic has prevented official RAJAR figures from deep analysis of the highly anticipated radio listenership during the lockdown period but individual stations are revealing the first signs of an extraordinary increase in figures. Most excitingly for the music industry, it seems music radio is benefitting across the board, from dance stations to country,Read more

An organisation called https://www.wethepeoplesaveourancientwoodland.co.uk are working alongside musician Lui Krieg to help draw attention to a matter of grave concern within England’s ancient woodland, but can a song really change the way we think? In the wake of a recent arson attack on Whiteleaved Oak, along with the continuing widespread deforestation of ancient UK woodlands,Read more