Union Square Music release original albums and single and multi artist compilations across a broad range
of musical genres. We pride
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our sleeve design, booklets, sound
quality and value.
Much of Union Square Music's wide variety of output is available digitally. These include original albums and hit tracks, single and multi artist compilations. Click here to see our latest releases.
Union Square Music offers a range of publishing, sub-publishing and territorial representation. We own and administer a varied catalogue of works - check here to visit our exclusive publishing site.
Union Square Music owns and administrates over 10,000 tracks from a variety of labels including Madness and Nazareth. Click here to search the Union Square Music Licensing database.
Brass Bands have always competed for prizes but far fewer bands exist since the closure of Britain’s coal pits and engineering businesses which had kept them going for around a hundred years in some cases. BBC2 programme "A Band For Britain" seeks to reverse this trend and recruit new members to the 700 registered Brass Bands in the country.
Catch Nazareth’s Dan & Pete on Radio 6 with Bruce Dickinson
24/02/2010
Tune in to Bruce Dickinson’s Friday rock show on BBC Radio 6 on March 12 (9pm til midnight) to hear an entertaining interview with Nazareth founder members Pete Agnew and Dan McCafferty.
The veteran rockers recorded the show on February 15, before their gig at the Relentless Garage in Highbury (a fantastic show, blown amp notwithstanding!); the London leg of their extremely well-received UK ’Still Loud n Proud’ tour.
1st May 2010 – Estrella Levante SOS 4.8,
Murcia, Spain
8th May 2010 – Milan Palasharp
11th May 2010 – Berlin (Huxley’s Neue Welt)
12th May 2010 – Dortmund Westfalenhalle
14th May 2010 – Zenith De Paris
15th May 2010 – Amsterdam, Heineken Music Hall
12th June 2010 – Caribana Festival,
Switzerland
9th July 2010 – The Marquee, Cork
23rd July - York Racecourse
24th July - Margate (Sound Island Festival)
29th July - Epsom Racecourse
30th July – 1st August 2010 – Camp Bestival, Dorset
6th August - Newmarket Racecourse
21/22 August - V Festival
Check the official Madness website for full details including where to buy tickets from and the USM site to see all the Madness digital and CD releases.
John Barrowman joins the cast of Desperate Housewives
10/02/2010
There’s A New Face On Wisteria Lane...
The star of Torchwood and one of the UK’s favourite performers of stage and screen is about to descend on the residents of Wisteria lane.
ABC confirmed Torchwood star John Barrowman will be making his debut on the show in May or June and will be playing a villainous roll that will form an integral part to the shows season finale.
Sir John Dankworth: Born 20 September 1927; died 6 February 2010
08/02/2010
There are few British musicians who were better known and respected
both at home and abroad than Sir John Dankworth, who has passed away at
the age of 82 following a truly astonishing career that spanned the best
part of seven decades and during which he did his utmost to bring jazz
and classical music together, with great success.
In the autumn of 2007, both he and his wife of over 50 years, the
singer Cleo Laine, celebrated their 80th birthdays with a critically
acclaimed box set - I Hear Music - on Salvo and a concert at The
Barbican, during which Sir John was a constant presence on stage, either
playing his saxophone or vigorously directing the extraordinary musical
ensemble that had come together in their honour.
One of Britain’s major jazz (and soundtrack) composers, arrangers and
musicians, Dankworth always worked at the top end of the spectrum in
both the music that he wrote and with whom he chose to perform; a list
that includes everyone from Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald to Craig
David! His active musical career, which included many concerts and
recordings with his wife, showed few signs of abating in the last years
of his life as he remained a major presence on the British jazz scene.
He made his first recordings (on clarinet) in the early 1940s and was
a key player in the emergence of “the new jazz” (greatly influenced by
the work of Charlie “Bird” Parker) in the UK after the war, forming his
own ensemble, The Johnny Dankworth Seven in late 1949.
Cleo Laine became the band’s main singer in 1951. With discs like The
Very Thought of You, from March 1952, and Easy Living the
following year, Cleo Laine and the Johnny Dankworth Seven made a real
mark on the British music scene. They worked at venues that ranged from
provincial jazz clubs in the back rooms of pubs to the Royal Festival
Hall. But from early in the 1950s Cleo also began to make records in her
own right, usually with beautifully crafted arrangements by John.
They were married in 1958, around the same time as John diversified
into scoring movies and TV shows. Among his best known credits are the
theme tune for the TV show Tomorrow’s World and the classic 60s
movies Modesty Blaise and Darling.
During the following decade their desire to bring jazz to a wider
audience led them to found the Wavendon Allmusic Plan at the Allmusic
Centre (Allmusic being John’s term for what would become popularly known
as world music) at their home just outside Milton Keynes; a venue that
hosted thousands of musical events over the ensuing years.
In 2006 John (who had been honoured with a CBE in 1974) became the
first jazz musician to be knighted. He is survived by Cleo and their
children Alec and Jacqui.
Scotland’s greatest rock exports, the hardest working band in the land, Nazareth, start their UK tour this weekend. Pete Agnew, Dan McCafferty, Jimmy Murrison and Lee Agnew kick things off in Lincolnshire at Butlins Rock Weekend, Skegness, finishing in Glenrothes, near their hometown of Dunfermline, three weeks later. Catch them if you can!
After successful European dates, revered guitarist and Fleetwood Mac founder Peter Green will embark on a 19-date UK tour of in February with his new band. They’re a fine group of musicians - keyboard ace Geraint Watkins (Van Morrrison, Nick Lowe, Bill Wyman), upright bass player Matt Radford (Peter Molinari, Nick Lowe), hard-grooving drummer Andrew Flude and rhythm guitarist Mike Dodd - so do check them out at the following venues:
Feb 13 Villa Marina and Gaiety Theatre Complex, Douglas - Isle Of Man Feb 18 Opera House, Buxton Feb 19 Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal Feb 20 Holmfirth Picturedrome Feb 22 Glee Club, Birmingham Feb 23 Huntingdon Hall, Worcester Feb 24 The Globe, Cardiff Feb 26 Phoenix Arts Centre, Exeter Feb 27 Phoenix Arts Centre, Exeter Feb 28 The Brook, Southampton Mar 8 The Maltings, Farnham Mar 9 Stables Theatre, Milton Keynes Mar 11 The Junction, Cambridge Mar 12 Rescue Rooms, Nottingham Mar 13 Irish Centre, Leeds Mar 15 Assembly Rooms, Leamington Mar 16 Komedia Theatre, Bath Mar 17 Komedia Theatre, Brighton Mar 22 Union Chapel, London
Salvo starts ZTT reissue programme with 808 State and Buggles
05/01/2010
Founded by Trevor Horn, Jill Sinclair and Paul Morley in 1983, ZTT (Zang Tuum Tumb) enjoyed 45 UK Top 40 hits (fifteen of them Top 10) and produced well regarded and highly successful albums by the likes The Art of Noise, Propaganda, Frankie Goes To Hollywood and 808 State. Under a new deal Salvo will be following up its acclaimed ZTT box set with reissues of all of the label’s classic albums as remastered deluxe editions with rare and previously unreleased bonus tracks, new liner notes and photos. First out of the block are two seminal dance albums from 808 State - 90 and ex:el and the long lost second album by The Buggles, which was essentially a Trevor Horn solo album. With new "electro"-inspired artists like La Roux and Lady GaGa riding high in the charts there has never been a better time to look back at some of the pioneers of electronic dance music. Watch out for more ZTT releases throughout the year.
In the mean time you can view our 808 State trailer here:
... and listen to 808 State’s main man, Graham Massey, being interviewed by Nemone on BBC 6Music here:
Procol Harum’s "One More Time" album is to be made available to download for the first time from the 18th October 2009. To preview the album and pre-order your download, visit the Procol Harum store here.
26th October 2009 sees the release of a very special edition of Madness’s ’One Step Beyond...’. Digitally remastered with bonus tracks, nutty videos, a fantastic John Peel Session and liner notes by ’Trainspotting’ author Irvine Welsh, this 2CD collection will coincide with Madness’s 30th anniversary and marks the beginning of USM’s Madness reissue campaign, celebrating one of Britain’s all-time favourite bands.
MADNESS are the ultimate British singles band, holding the record for British single sales in the 1980s when over 6 million Madness singles were bought by the British public. Total Madness features 23 classic Madness tracks including 20 top 20 hits and all the accompanying videos on one fantastic value CD+DVD set.
Salvo/Fly’s already highly acclaimed ’Move Anthology 1966-72’ has been nominated for the Classic Rock Roll Of Honour ’Reissue of the Year’ award for 2009. The other nominees in this category are albums from ZZ Top, Pearl Jam, The Who, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Def Leppard, Motorhead and The Kinks. It should be a hard fought battle and a public vote will determine the winner so please vote for The Move by following this link.
Peter Green to play Cornbury Festival and London’s Dingwalls
02/07/2009
Fleetwood Mac founder and guitar legend Peter Green will be making his first live appearance in the UK for over four years at this year’s Cornbury Festival. Peter has been working with a rockin’ new band, a combination of youth and experience: Geraint Watkins (also with Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings); Matt Radford (also with Nick Lowe, Pete Molinari); Mike Dodd, Andrew Flude and of course the main man himself on lead guitar and vocals. The set will comprise Mac/Green classics as well as a selection of some of Peter’s favourite blues songs. They will take to ’The Word’ stage on Saturday July 11 in the grounds of Cornbury Park in the Oxfordshire countryside. The following night will see them perform at Dingwalls in Camden. Salvo’s critically acclaimed 4CD Peter Green Anthology is available from all good retailers. Click here for further details.
Scotland’s greatest rock exports have just returned from a series of concerts in Brazil and have plenty more dates planned in Canada and Europe throughout the summer. Visit Nazarethdirect.co.uk to see the full run-down. Salvo’s new 2CD Nazareth collection, The Anthology, is being released around Europe from Monday June 29 and will hit the streets in the UK on August 3.
Classic rockers ’Magnum’ have released a brand new studio album this week. Early indications suggest that ’Into The Valley Of The Moon King’ looks set to enter the UK album charts in the top 40.
Click here to see our very own Magnum 2CD collection, boasting over two hours of classic tracks from their illustrious career.
The Move Anthology shortlisted for prestigious MOJO catalogue award
04/06/2009
Salvo/Fly’s 4CD collection, The Move Anthology 1966-72, has been nominated for the catalogue award at the MOJO Honours List, the star-studded ceremony for which will be held next Thursday 11 June. The other nominees are deluxe reissues from the likes of Miles Davis, Radiohead and Hawkwind but we hope our highly acclaimed Move release (click here for further details) can hold them off to continue Salvo’s proud (winning) association with these awards.
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