Twenty years after topping the charts with their million-selling hit JCB Song, the band that inspired a teenage Ed Sheeran is to open shows for him. Sheeran credits Nizlopi with teaching him ...

I had never thought of my home as a venue for a pop concert. It is not large, and has been made much smaller by an infill of several hundred paintings, sculptures, bibelots, and inessential items of ...

There are two guys on stage. One is singing and playing an acoustic guitar. The other, incredibly, is plucking a double bass while doing a human beatbox. And that’s it. No wonder Nizlopi describe ...

Twenty years after topping the charts with their million-selling hit JCB Song, the band that inspired a teenage Ed Sheeran is to open shows for him. Sheeran credits Nizlopi with teaching him ...

As Luke Concannon tells the audience, it has been a strange month for Nizlopi, the two-man outfit he fronts with his double-bass-playing pal John Parker. Taking the same trail blazed earlier this year ...

‘We’d get big, rugby-playing men coming up to us in tears and saying “I miss my dad” – or “I love my dad and I’ve never told him”’ John and I started writing songs together when we were 13. After we ...

Folk music fans are set for a nostalgic treat this December as chart-topping duo Nizlopi, best known for their 2005 #1 hit ‘JCB,’ will open for Ed Sheeran on the UK and Europe leg of his LOOP tour.

WITH their JCB days behind them, Luke Concannon and John Parker's new six-track album, aptly titled The Extraordinary Mini-Album, is an acoustic folky affair singing about life, love and politics. The ...

Leamington Spa's chart topping band Nizlopi, who shot to fame with their catchy JCB song in 2005 are playing a free gig at BBC Coventry & Warwickshire's Open Centre live with Annie Othen on Wednesday, ...

SO there I was, standing at the bar, minding my own business, when this guy starts belting out some song at the top of his voice right next to me. Half shocked, half frightened, I turned to tell him ...