The Big Interviews with Graham Walker

SINGER, songwriter, rapper, storyteller and social commentator - Maverick Sabre is waking up a whole new fan base on a UK tour. Here 'the Irish heart through London eyes' tells Graham Walker about his melting pot of musical and social inspirations ahead of a UK autumn tour promoting latest album When I Wake Up, Read more at  https://www.thestar.co.uk/whats-on

DISHY celebrity chef Jean-Christophe Novelli may be the sexy rock and roll pin-up of the cooking world but he says what you are inside matters most. And he has won legions of new fans by proving just that. The multi Michelin Star award winning chef - giving demos at South Yorkshire's Flavours Food Festival in Barnsley, this weekend, Oct 19 and 20, 2019 - gave up the glamour and put his lifestyle o...

MARTIN Fry cropped his floppy fringe and ditched the gold lamé suits years ago - but the voice of iconic eighties chart-toppers ABC is still on target as he embarks on a new tour performing Lexicon Of Love with a full orchestra and he admits he still has the Look Of Love for his beloved Sheffield, where it all began. Listen to full interview with The Star's Graham Walker ahed of homecoming at Shef...

MOVE over Roman Reigns, Brock Lesnar, Triple H and all those other big guys…girl power is here to stay and WWE women wrestlers will top the bill at Wrestlemania. Or so vows popular World Wrestling Entertainment superstar Bayley. Don't be surprised if the 29-year-old former Raw and NXT Women's Champion is the one making history. One of the biggest names in women's wrestling - listen to our 10 minut...

THIS Is Me singing sensation Scarlett Lee here tells how The Greatest Showman anthem that helped her to deal with cruel bullies and make it through to The X Factor Final The 21-year-old, who will perform with other finalists on The X Factor Live 2019 tour, had to deal with online trolls who mocked her weight and called her fat. But she beat them and captured the hearts of the nation with her rendi...

Buddy Hall started the Merseybeat sound with an appearance at The Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool on March 20, 1958- according to 60s legend Mike Pender of The Searchers. The 77-year-old Sweets For My Sweet chart-topper recalls it was the day he saw Buddy Holly and The Crickets and says it inspired the city sound created by the likes ofThe Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Dakotas, The Swingin...

BIGGER, better and brighter than ever Christmas At The Botanics is back with more than one million dazzling lights and we have been given an exclusive audio preview guided tour at what families can expect - listen to our full chat, also with tips and advice from Creative Director Zoe Bottrell, of Culture Creative. The trial this year includes a spectacular and jaw-dropping Cathedral Of Light which...

CHART-topping pop jazz singer Caro Emerald is back but not with a long overdue third album - for now she wants to party with fans and get them dancing on their chairs, as she told me ahead of her 21 date UK tour, including Yorkshire dates in Harrogate, York and Sheffield City Hall. Full details https://www.caroemerald.com/

"I was told that I wouldn't amount to stuff when I wanted to sing, when I was younger. With a lazy eyelid I never looked like what the traditional female singer songwriter would look like.  "But I'm having the last laugh. You can be very much out of the box and your own individual person," says Dreams hitmaker Gabrielle in this frank interview to mark her recording comeback with a sneak peek of ne...

Stereophonics frontman Kelly Jones, promising  to get the 2018 Sheffield Tramlines festival 10th birthday party started with a gift of greatest hits on the opening night - Friday, July 20 - reveals:"I get off on our gigs. "We definitely feed off the audience. If they are into it, the energy they give you feeds back into your performance." Listen to his full 15 minute chat with Graham Walker - his...

Punk rock king John Lydon is back on tour celebrating the 40th anniversary of his band Public Image Ltd (PiL) - but the controversial Sex Pistols frontman isn't promising a greatest hits collection, as he told Graham Walker in this exclusive chat ahead of The Pubic Image Is Rotten 2018 Tour.

New York singer songwriter Sunny Ozell, wife of Yorkshire-born Star Trek and X-Men movies superstar Sir Patrick Stewart is excited about a very special 'homecoming' on a forthcoming six date UK tour. She supports folk rock duo The Rails at bar and live music venue The Lantern in Halifax - not 10 miles from her hubby's birthplace - on Sunday, May 13.  Full interview here with me, Graham Walker. Rea...

The World's Strongest Man Eddie Hall is to reveal all about the controversy surrounding his 2017 win over Game of Thrones rival Thor in an update of his autobiography after the first run sold 25,000 copies over Christmas. But ahead of his bid to retain his Britain's Strongest Man title at Sheffield FlyDSA Arena on Saturday, Jan 27, 2018, in our exclusive chat Eddie tells it how it is: "Thor claime...

Ancient Egypt in Yorkshire, Gods' Land In God's County, at Experience Barnsley, inside the Town Hall, until January 20, 2018, is an exhibition of priceless and amazing Egyptian tomb treasures brought together for the first time from museums all over the county, by curator and BBC TV Egyptologist Prof Joann Fletcher. Here she gives us an exclusive 38-minute guided audio tour, which can be downloade...

IT'S beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh which is being transformed into a spectacular new festive landscape lights trail. And here more new details emerged about Christmas At The Botanics in our exclusive chat with creative producer Zoe Bottrell, who is the Director of Culture Creative, the company overseeing the project. Full details at www.rbge.org.uk/wh...

GAY rights activist Tom Robinson is still glad to be singing his greatest hits 40-years on. But four decades later the Glad To Be Gay and 2-4-6-8 Motorway star believes music doesn't actually change a thing. It provide a tonic for the troops who do bring about real change, says the 67-year-old in this exclusive chat during his 15 date 2-4-6-8 Motorway 40th Anniversary Shows, October 2017. Tour dat...

Great British Bake Off 2015 champ Nadiya Hussain talks about her meteoric rise, reveals her favourite Yorkshire food and why she's still a huge fan of GBBO...she also tells us how to cook up a quick pesto meal, ahead of her Flavours Food Festival cooking demos at Elsecar Heritage Centre, October 14 and 15, 2017.

Indie icons The Libertines headline Sheffield's Tramlines urban music festival - JULY 21-23 - and drummer Gary Powell in conversation with me here hints that festivalgoers may get to hear new songs ahead of their fourth album which he confirmed is now due out next Spring.

BBC Look North presenter Harry Gration hosts the 10th annual Leeds Hotels and Venues Association Awards at the Queens Hotel, on Thursday, June 299, 2017,. The awards honour the city's top hospitality workers and in this audio recording of the full ceremony pays tribute to all the following winners and runners up; Apprentice of the Year: 1st: Alex Verity, DoubleTree by Hilton Unsung Hero: 1st: Aida...

Rag 'n' Bone Man stands head and shoulders above the rest as Britain's biggest new music star - but that's more to do with his voice than his looks. At 6ft 5ins, with a beard and tattoos, he already stands out in a crowd. But Rory Graham, to give him his real name, is the owner of big, booming, killer voice, full of honest emotion, behind the colossal hit single Human, which is everywhere and on e...

In an exclusive interview Joe Bonamassa reveals what fans old and new can expect on his forthcoming 2017 UK tour, talks about his collection of 300 guitars and which one he would want with him on a desert island. He also names who he believes is the greatest guitarist of all time. Joe tells me how he started playing guitar aged four and listening to British blues rock legends inspired him to do wh...

The Wailers drummer Aston Barrett Jr today revealed he is so spiritually in tune with reggae king Bob Marley's backing band that he sometimes feels possessed on stage. He believes it is the spirit of band's iconic drummer, his late uncle Carlton Barrett. And the sound is definitely in his DNA. He is part of the band's current line up - playing the iconic album Legend in its entirety on a 14 date U...

Chart-topper Olly Murs has been talking to me about his 2017 UK Tour and reveals why his heart really does skip a beat when he plays for Yorkshire fans.

All the world is The Stage for chart-topping cult American rockers Avenged Sevenfold who make their Sheffield Arena debut this Sunday. The band, also known as A7X, are on a world tour promoting their latest and seventh studio hit album The Stage. And in an exclusive chat they told us why fans old and new should join the party and their growing legion of fans., "The music will be loud, the beer wil...

Sheffield singer songwriter Paul Carrack chats to Graham Walker about his bid to top the 2016 Christmas charts with the London Hospice Choir and a charity version of his classic hit, The Living Years. He also reveals why he is nervous about his forthcoming Sheffield Arena homecoming date as part of a UK tour early next year,