music

Welsh indie band "Los Campesinos!" are performing for the first time in Cornwall. The gig as part of a UK-wide tour to launch their new album. "Romance is Boring", which will be out later in February.

The seven-piece band met at university in Wales four years ago. They play guitar-driven rock with cheerful, poppy melodies.

Their new songs have lots of different inspirations: "The death and decay of the human body, lost love, mental breakdown and football."

All ages will be welcome to the gig at the Princess Pavilion.

Another live music charity event is being held in Truro this Saturday to raise money for the Shelterbox Haiti appeal.

There will be something for everyone and dancing in the street if last week's event is anything to go by, with half hour sets from rock groups, fiddlers and a steel drum troupe.

A new Cornish indie band is holding its official launch party at Truro's Bunters Bar on Thursday.

Auction for the Promise Club is a female-fronted three-piece band which has recently emerged on the Cornish music scene.

The band consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Zoe White-Chambers, lead guitarist Perran Tremewan, and drummer Toby White-Chambers.

The band has been touring Penryn, St Agnes and Falmouth.  On Thursday they will be playing in Truro, Cornwall to launch officially before they embark on a further tour of the country .

Music has the potential to help pupils develop both personally and musically if taught well.

But some schools are failing to harness the full power of the subject, an Ofsted report has found.

Provision was found to be good or outstanding in half of the schools visited. The best progress was made when the school had a “clear sense of why music was important”. 

In these schools music also helped to bolster pupils’ self esteem and increase their development in other subjects.

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