Things have got bigger on Cherry Ghost’s second album. Songs unfurl with cinematic expansiveness, reminiscent of Doves, and sweeping string arrangements add an epic strain to the galloping drums and ...

CHERRY GHOST Bolton native Simon Aldred is Cherry Ghost – although he plays and records with a quintet – and took the name for his bittersweet, slightly country-tinged pop project from a Wilco song.

Cherry Ghost’s Simon Aldred finds himself in a funny position leading up to the release of his third LP Herd Runners. Since 2010’s Beneath This Burning Shoreline, he’s written songs for successful ...

Maxine Peake makes her directorial debut in the new video for Manchester's Cherry Ghost, which also stars the actor There's very little Maxine Peake isn't capable of in the world of arts: famed for ...

Bolton's Cherry Ghost are a product of the same north-west drizzle as Elbow, Doves and I Am Kloot. Like their fellow northern souls, they play hard-bitten, anthemic northern melancholy. Cherry Ghost's ...

THERE'S been a collective buzz around five-piece Cherry Ghost ever since they played BBC 2's Later With Jools Holland before even releasing a note. So it was hardly surprising Dingwalls was packed to ...

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OBSERVING the rise of Cherry Ghost from a distance, nothing quite shakes the niggling opinion that Bolton, of all places, is the most unlikely launch pad for such gentle, life-affirming pop songs, ...