This was a most rare opportunity to catch Marc Ribot – composer, musician and long-time artistic collaborator to a veritable...
In less than a month’s time, and as part of its diverse and imaginative winter season programme of cultural events,...
The Howard Assembly Room is a 300 capacity venue located within the magnificent Grade II listed, Victorian splendour of Leeds...
The Kronos Quartet has long been part of the vanguard of invention. For 43 years, to be precise, the San...
The Jajouka come from a small goat-herding village of the same name that lies in the foothills of the southern...
This evening was as much about Michael Nyman the filmmaker and photographer as it was about Michael Nyman the composer...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the release of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme. An album of sheer, undiluted...
Ali Farka Touré was the first of many musicians from Mali who would ultimately find success in the west. He...
For the best part of the last fortnight, the Howard Assembly Room has played host to the Yorkshire Festival and...
The inspiration for Flit – a highly inventive, inspired animation and music live show – came from when Martin Green...
Volker Bertelmann was last here in this truly exquisite performance space inside Leeds’ opulent Grand Theatre and Opera House in...
The Austrian-German film director Fritz Lang‘s 1927 science-fiction masterpiece Metropolis is rightly regarded as a landmark in cinematic history. Some...
The son of fêted English folk-rock trailblazers Richard & Linda Thompson he may well be, but Teddy Thompson is very...
Having Souad Massi open your autumn season of events proved to be quite a coup for the Howard Assembly Room...
Much of The Bad Plus’s reputation and mainstream appeal lies in their ability to deconstruct the work of others. Having...