The infamous Mission from Gadd Tour opens its doors to audiences throughout the UK and Ireland in September.

"So ... its been a funny couple of weeks, it started with a fairly open looking diary and a gentle pace (my preferred pace) and was interrupted with a very late night call from M...

Glastonbury must be the Holy Grail of festivals, especially for a new band. Patch William got the chance this year and on the events 40th birthday no less!

The festival season is now well under way!  The 40th Glastonbury festival happened at the end of June where many big names performed to the huge crowds.  A plethora of Yamaha gear was used throughout the weekend from the main stag...

The new Yamaha DSR series, including the compact and lightweight full-range DSR112, DSR115 and DSR215, along with the DSR118W subwoofer, deliver class-leading power, digital sound processing, plus the all-new D-CONTOUR multi-band dynamic processi...

As part of our monthly podcast we have featured many bands for our 'Band for a Grand'.  Each month we invited an unsigned band into Yamaha HQ to record one of their original tracks on a selection of Yamaha gear, which when all added together wa...

Earlier this year we saw the flagship Yamaha CP1 Stage Piano with its ground breaking 'SCM' technology arrive at stores across the UK. Well now its the versatile CP5 and compact CP50 that have landed and complete the '5 strong' line-up of CP's.

Wednesday 26^th May sees the world famous British Science Museum open its doors for the next offering in their 'Lates' series of adults-only events. The 'Science of Genius' is a one-off night to explore the nature of genius in a...

This year sees the 40^th anniversary of the world-famous Glastonbury Festival, and legendary host and founder Michael Eavis has taken the opportunity to team up some of the biggest names in world music with the next ...

In amongst all the hype that surrounded singer Susan Boyle, it's sometimes overlooked that she didn't actually win the 2009 series of televised talent show Britain's Got Talent. That honour went to dance troupe Diversity, which has just com...

On Saturday 19th June 2010 the first annual sports and music event in aid of the Princes Trust and Rob Williams Enterprise Fund will take place at Beaumont School.

Yamaha announce the new BR 'Bass Reflex' series of passive speakers - an all new 5-strong range of front of house and monitor speakers designed for discerning musicians and institutions on a budget.

On Thursday April 1st ChildLine Rocks returns with an incredible one off line up of 'The Enemy', 'Carl Barat' and 'Reverend and the Makers' playing live to raise money for ChildLine on behalf of ChildLine Rocks.

Take one very successful comedian who happens to be a highly proficient musician; add a number of the UK's best regional orchestras; an Oscar-winning conductor and two Yamaha mixing consoles, put them all in a touring package and the result i...

Want to win some amazing prizes that money can't buy?  Then listen up. ROCKPOOL.COM, the digital archive of all things music, wants you!  So, grab your mobile phones, grab your digital cameras and take up to 3 photos that capture the essence ...

An enthusiastic crowd were treated to an evening of explosive and inspiring performances at The Stables earlier (Monday Dec 7th) this week as Yamaha's search for the UK's top unsigned talent culminated in the five bands bidding to win Yamaha'...

Whether it's been the judges or Jedward, the 2009 season of television talent contest The X Factor has, as always, got the British public talking. And helping to get the contestants singing has been monitor engineer Fred Jackson and his trusty...

Jamie Cullum's new album 'The Pursuit' is already attracting critical acclaim and rising rapidly up the Album Charts, currently positioned at number 16 in the official UK album charts at the time we went to press. When Jamie's creative director Marc Si...

Just getting a ticket for the Classic Rock Roll of Honour awards at the 02 is pretty tough, but winning an award, obviously, is something else. Not only did Yamaha L-Series player Joe Bonamassa win Best Breakthrough Artist, but he was the first person ever to play at the Classic Rock awards show - putting his Yamaha LJX26C through it's paces in front of Rock Royalty including Jimmy Page, R...

Drummers, Producers, DJs, and beginners and experts alike will all welcome the superb new DTX-MULTI 12 from Yamaha. The most powerful all-in-one percussion device ever created, it brings the professional power, sound and creativity of the acclaimed high end DTX range to musicians at a highly affordable price.

The new POCKETRAK 2G Digital Pocket Recorder is ideal for all kinds of audio applications. Rather than simply listing these we thought it would be great to do a proper, real-life road test. This road-test however would not take place in the obvious band...

American songstress P!nk has recently embarked on a high profile world arena tour to promote her latest album Funhouse. And to make sure all the musicians and dancers have the best foldback sound, monitor engineer Horst Hartmann is manning a Yama...

As Barack Obama took the oath of office, becoming the first African-American President of the United States, Yamaha digital consoles were specified for many of the high profile and historic events held in Washington, Los Angeles and New York.

Introducing Yamaha design concepts, philosophy and messages from our in house designers.

The NAMM Show in Anaheim, California, will offer anything you need to help your business have its best year yet: All the latest musical instruments and-products from around the world, professional training from industry experts and the inspiration a...