Things have got bigger on Cherry Ghost’s second album. Songs unfurl with cinematic expansiveness, reminiscent of Doves, and sweeping string arrangements add an epic strain to the galloping drums and ...

Maxine Peake makes her directorial debut in the new video for Manchester's Cherry Ghost, which also stars the actor There's very little Maxine Peake isn't capable of in the world of arts: famed for ...

Cherry Ghost’s Simon Aldred finds himself in a funny position leading up to the release of his third LP Herd Runners. Since 2010’s Beneath This Burning Shoreline, he’s written songs for successful ...

THERE'S been a collective buzz around five-piece Cherry Ghost ever since they played BBC 2's Later With Jools Holland before even releasing a note. So it was hardly surprising Dingwalls was packed to ...

Names can be deceptive. You go to all that effort of forming a band, finding the right mix of people, writing songs, recording them, and then you go and call yourself Prefab Sprout. Or, like Cherry ...

I’ve got to confess that I developed a decidedly negative attitude towards Manchester’s Cherry Ghost when I first got wind of their recent UK chart success and subsequently watched the video for ...

CHERRY GHOST Bolton native Simon Aldred is Cherry Ghost – although he plays and records with a quintet – and took the name for his bittersweet, slightly country-tinged pop project from a Wilco song.

Big things were expected of Cherry Ghost. Band members were riding the crest of success that had swept them from unknown Lancashire musicians to prime-time radio darlings. Their debut album, Thirst ...

Three years have past since Cherry Ghost achieved an omnipresence…be it on mainstream radio or in the live arena. For a while they were difficult to escape. One whould chance upon them in support to ...

History will not be kind to Simon Aldred. He is fated to be remembered as that dude who belted out ‘People Help The People’, a surprise minor-hit that Britain fell for the way it did ‘Mad World’: ...

OBSERVING the rise of Cherry Ghost from a distance, nothing quite shakes the niggling opinion that Bolton, of all places, is the most unlikely launch pad for such gentle, life-affirming pop songs, ...

There’s no getting away from Cherry Ghost at the moment. Every way you turn, radio, TV, Glastonbury, there they are. But it’s very welcome and their debut album doesn’t disappoint. Thirst for Romance ...