A heavy metal band featuring British Turkish Cypriot Erhan Alman is up for two awards at the prestigious Heavy Music Awards taking place at OVO Arena Wembley this Friday. Heriot is on the shortlist for both Best Breakthrough Album and the Best Breakthrough Live Artist. They are up against six other...
British-born Turkish Cypriot TruBlue’s pioneering Turkish-Garage fusion sound has been getting airplay on national and dance music radio for the past few years. Her infectious tracks ‘Like That’ and ‘Crazy Love’ have been on playlists for the likes of BBC1 Extra, Kiss FM, and Heart, and Reprezent R...
Tickets for Turkish indie music star Gaye Su Akyol’s upcoming concert at Kings Place are selling fast. Part of the week-long Songlines Encounters Festival international soundscape, the performance will be the singer-songwriter’s first UK concert after releasing her unforgettable new album Anadolu Ej...
Award-winning singer-songwriter and musical arranger Mustafa Ceceli returns to London for a concert at the 02 Forum in northwest London. Now aged 42, the talented Ankara-born artist’s 20-year career in showbusiness has seen him win for Best Album and Best Male Artist at Turkiye’s Music Awards. The...
Event organiser Sufi Festivals is staging “a phenomenal one-off showcase of Sufi sounds and artists” to raise vital funds to help those displaced by the catastrophic earthquake that struck Turkiye and Syria on 6 February. Taking place at Tramway Theatre in Glasgow on Friday, 5 May, this night of Na...
This year marks thirty years since Mahsun Kırmızıgül’s acclaimed album Alem Buysa Kral Sensin [‘If This is the World, You Are the King’] dropped, shaking up Turkiye’s music scene with its catchy fusion of Turkish Fantezi, Arabesque and Folk songs that propelled Kırmızıgül to the top of the charts....
If you’re in London and looking for an upmarket, fun place with a Turkish vibe to celebrate the end of Ramazan with friends and family, then look no further than Melin Restaurant on Chigwell Road in Woodford. This plush venue, favoured by the stars of The Only Way Is Essex, footballers and more, is...
One of the most exciting new bands to emerge from Turkiye is Lalalar. Hailing from Istanbul, the three-piece outfit serve up a unique blend of punk rock, psychedelic funk and electronica bound together with Anatolian beats. Band members Barlas Tan Özemek, Kaan Düzarat and Ali Güçlü Şimşek describe...
Duman have confirmed their sole London date as the band embark on a small European spring tour in April and May of this year, that will take in venues in Germany and the Netherlands. The band will be playing Indigo at the 02 on Wednesday, 26 April. One of Turkiye’s biggest bands, Duman (Turkish for...
A decade after her first appearance at Indigo at The O2, Sibel Can will return to the same Greenwich stage in June of this year. The Istanbul born singer is one of Turkiye’s most popular entertainer, with a string of hit songs and albums during a glistening career that started when she was a teenag...
