LIVE REVIEW: BILL RYDER-JONES – NEW CENTURY HALL 16/03/24

On a night when there’s so much going on in our city with numerous well known indie, rock and pop bands playing across town, it’s heartening to find a sold out crowd at New Century Hall to witness one of the UK’s finest songwriters perform his biggest gig to date. After listening to Bill Ryder […]
If the script writing boffins in TV land ever needed an artistic triumph over adversity series with a twist, they could do no better than looking towards the brilliant Bill Ryder-Jones for a gripping tale. From his early musical beginnings as a teen in The Coral, to taking time out from music to focus on […]

ALBUM REVIEW: BILL RYDER-JONES – IECHYD DA

LIVE: BILL RYDER-JONES – 06/10/2019

-BAND ON THE WALL, MANCHESTER- Bill Ryder-Jones (contractually obliged to say ‘formally of The Coral’ here – indeed he is playing a guitar with a strap adorned with their name) released a brilliant album, Yawn, last year, probably his best solo effort to date. Not content with that, he also released an entirely piano based version […]
– GULLIVERS, MANCHESTER – Its 10 to 11. The curfew for most Manchester venues is merely minutes away. Yet, as most bands are packing up to the sound of roars from the audience, there is one band that is just coming on stage. The band is Tops and this is not due to any lateness, […]
Tops

LIVE: TOPS – 13/05/2015

LIVE: BILL RYDER-JONES WITH MANCHESTER CAMERATA – 09/10/2014

– MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL , MANCHESTER –  Manchester Cathedral plays host to the debut performance of Bill Ryder-Jones’s excellent debut album If…, recorded in 2011 as a hypothetical film score to the novel ‘If on a Winters Night a Traveler’, by Italo Calvino. The book itself is an experimental work, featuring ten chapters each of two […]
– THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – Taking to the stage with a four-man band, who Bill branded as “the most under-rehearsed band on the planet” on his Twitter page just hours before the concert in an unashamed honest use of social media, with no view to ticket sales. This unashamed honesty was soon reflected in […]

LIVE: BILL RYDER-JONES – 22/10/2013