Tony Husband is best known for his regular cartoon strip in Private Eye, Yobs, that has been published since the late 1980s. Tony is an active dementia campaigner and openly speaks of his own experience of the joy that music brought this father whilst living with dementia: “I know the importance of, and the pleasure, music brings to those living with dementia. My dad was a brilliant boogie woogie player and he took his keyboard into the care home. One day I was in his room, and he was playing something I’d not heard before, I said ‘Dad, is that your tune?’ Without stopping playing, he said ‘Yes, music gives me freedom’ And it did, I know that.”

Damon  Gough, known by the stage name Badly Drawn Boy, is an English indie singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

In 2002, Q magazine named Badly Drawn Boy in their list of the “50 Bands to See Before You Die”

Marc is a musician and presenter. He joined the Manchester band The Fall in May 1978 aged 16. After 5 years in the band left to spend time split between another band (The Creepers), run a record label (In Tape), music journalism (Record Mirror) and enjoyed a stint as a cartoonist for a national kids comic (Oink!).

A few years spent as a Record Plugger saw Marc being invited to join the fledgeling BBC network Radio  5 Live network as a contributor, co-presenter and producer.  It was here that Marc formed a partnership with Mark Radcliffe which would see them broadcast together for 14 years. This included a stint at presenters of the Radio1 Breakfast Show. The duo split in 2004, and since then Marc has been a presenter on BBC 6 Music.

Doves are an English alt rock band formed in Manchester. The band is composed of twin brothers Jez Williams (guitar, vocals), and Andy Williams (drums, vocals) and Jimi Goodwin (bass, vocals, guitar). The band released four studio albums between 2000 and 2009, two of which reached #1 on the UK album charts

International touring artist Sean Taylor’s unique songwriting fuses blues, Americana, folk, roots, social commentary and spoken word.

Think of a late-night cocktail of Tom Waits and Jack Kerouac; With voice that is a cross between John Martyn and Van Morrison and a guitar style that sounds like an acoustic Stevie Ray Vaughan jamming with JJ Cale … His live shows feature world class songwriting with stories from the road.

Promoting his new album ‘Live In London’ Sean Taylor is one of the most exciting and hard working names on the international roots and blues circuit.  

After starting off as a guitarist and songwriter in rock and Indie bands Jim now works from his home studio writing and producing music for film and television. He has written music for several films, working with directors in the U.K and America. 

He particularly enjoys recording sounds from nature and the surrounding environment and taking these samples back to his studio to manipulate before incorporating them into his scores.

Although Jim plays many instruments and spends much of his time at a piano keyboard it’s always playing the many guitars that lie around his home where he feels most comfortable.

Rupert Moon is a former Wales international rugby union player. He played club rugby for Welsh clubs Abertillery and Neath but is most associated with Llanelli, who he captained during their unprecedented triple success season of 1992 when they won the League and Cup, and beat then Rugby World Cup Champions Australia. He played international rugby for Wales at scrum half.

Acclaimed worldwide for his profound musicianship and technical mastery, British cellist Steven Isserlis enjoys a unique and distinguished career as a soloist, chamber musician, educator, author and broadcaster.

As a concerto soloist he appears regularly with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, including the Berlin Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, London Philharmonic and Zurich Tonhalle orchestras.