It’s that time again when we cast our eye, and our ears, back over the past 12 months and wonder how those fabled new albums that we predict every year – yes, we’re talking to you Janet Jackson, The Cure, Sade, Kate Bush – have STILL not materialised. And who’d have predicted we’d get new Beatles material, though, before Rihanna...
Still, it’s better to focus on what we have rather than what we don’t, and 2023 has given us plenty of fantastic new music from Depeche Mode, Kylie, OMD and Take That among others and we look forward to experiencing them in a live setting in the new year. Other big live draws in 2024 include the reunited Girls Aloud (see our news story on pages 10-11), Liam Gallagher, who is performing Oasis’ Definitely Maybe in full, Bruce Springsteen, thankfully fully recovered from his health scare, and The Pretenders.