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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Manchester's Cherry Ghost are back. Miz DeShannon catches up with the ghost himself, Simon Aldred, to talk about the new album, Bruce Springsteen, and how, after two years away, things are looking ...

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 ...

Bolton's Cherry Ghost are a product of the same north-west drizzle as Elbow, Doves and I Am Kloot. Like their fellow northern souls, they play hard-bitten, anthemic northern melancholy. Cherry Ghost's ...

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.

The meeting of two of Manchester’s hottest new names at the Academy 3 was enough to have a sell-out crowd salivating, but what should have been double-headliner joy after joy turned out to be more of ...

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If Cherry Ghost's first album was – in the words of Ivor Novello-winning leader Simon Aldred – "Willie Nelson meets Walt Disney", the follow-up is more Tindersticks meet Tony Christie. The ...

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 ...