Mike + the Mechanics News

EACH tour visit Paul Carrack makes brings a fuller show. Among his 10 tours in the last 11 years, lighting and backdrop visual or filmed effects have more recently added to the experience.

You may not know the face but the voice will be instantly familiar from a string of chart-toppping hits.

Conspicuously absent from the Suzuki press release last week was any mention of Michael Jordan Motorsports or Jordan's plans in 2010 DMG Superbike racing.

DESPITE his soulful voice appearing on some of the most memorable hits of the last 35 years, Paul Carrack has always been a reluctant frontman.

THE distinctive vocal talents of Paul Carrack can be heard at Derby's Assembly Rooms on Saturday, November 7. Carrack is touring the UK to promote his latest album I Know That Name.

Active since 1967, Genesis - originally a top progressive rock band fronted by Peter Gabriel - became a major international pop act in the '80s and early '90s. Group's hits included 'Invisible Touch' , 'Land of Confusion,' 'Tonight, Tonight, Tonight,' 'In Too Deep' and 'I Can't Dance.' Imagem has also acquired a 50% share of Collins' solo ...

A Croydon band who won a prestigious songwriting competition in America release their third album on Monday.

Singer-guitarist Leon Rausch of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys is 82. Critic Rex Reed is 71.

Yesterday, I was sitting at an outdoor cafe, eating lunch with friends and listening to songs designed to enhance the experience: Vanessa Carlton, late-period Rod Stewart and Mike + The Mechanics.

KINGS OF LEON Notion *** The fourth single from Only By The Night is a burning ballad.

There is a song by Mike Rutherford from Mike and the Mechanics, a founding member of the iconic group Genesis, titled, "In the Living Years." And although the lyrics portray the rift that can open between father and son and repeat from one generation to the next, the song always reminds me of my father, whom I lost to a heart attack in 1963 when I ...