Without skiffle music, The Beatles might not have happened. Never heard of it? Popular in Britain in the 1950s, the music craze was heavily influenced by old American blues and jug band music, and ...

Singer/songwriter Billy Bragg gained fame as a punk rock and folk musician in the 1980s. Now nearing 60, he’s still singing songs of protest and passion, but also singing the gospel of skiffle, a folk ...

In the same way that Blur's pert, smart backsides will always spring to mind when the term Britpop is mentioned, skiffle is associated almost entirely with one man. That Lonnie Donegan was as ...

He is more famous as a film critic, but the man who spends much of his working life in dark theatres has another passion - playing upright bass in sweaty venues to make a 'joyful racket' with his ...

Most people with even a cursory interest in popular music could name the king of rock 'n' roll and the king of pop, but ask them who the king of skiffle was and you might get a blank stare, perhaps ...

Music is often cyclical but not always chronological, which was certainly the case when the man who helped put skiffle on the map (and was a fundamental influence on the future Beatles) died in 2002, ...

Skiffle is the music that time forgot, and Billy Bragg thinks it’s high time we knew a lot more about it. He’s been a big fan for years, and now he’s written a lively history of this neglected genre - ...

“Skiffle” is a genre of music from turn of the last century New Orleans. It is a conglomerate/derivative form of music that was used to embrace the differnet ...

Growing up in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Van Morrison would hang out at his local record shop, Atlantic Records, and consume all the early 20th century blues, jazz, and folk from the likes of Jelly ...

The word skiffle dates from the 1920s - although it is a cause of some argument as to who coined it and how it stuck to the music it now describes. Some say it came from a 1929 track, authors unknown, ...

The Ugly Dog Skiffle Combo's desire to be innovative while having fun has led to some of its members making their own instruments in a bid to get its audience's feet tapping. Wayne Beauchamp tells us ...