UK country duo The Shires make music history today by signing a ground-breaking record deal with the Nashville-based Big Machine Label Group under the historic Dot Records imprint.

Last week Decca Records released the soundtrack to eagerly-anticipated new feature film Ethel & Ernest – an animated adaptation of Raymond Briggs’ graphic-novel tribute to his parents.

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Last year The Shires made chart history with their debut album ‘Brave‘ entering the Top 10 of the UK Album Charts – they were the first ever Country band to do so! Not content with that feather in their Yankee Doodle hat – The Shires now have the fastest-selling UK Country album of all time, since releasing their brand new album ‘My Universe‘. Musicvein caught up with one half of the duo Ben Earle to talk about ‘My Universe’, Glastonbury and him becoming a father for the first time.

November 18th 2016, world famous Tenor Andrea Bocelli will release a special 20th Anniversary Edition of his hit album ‘Romanza’ and to mark the occasion will also re-record versions of his timeless classic ‘Time To Say Goodbye’, which he famously performed with British Soprano Sarah Brightman at the final match of light-heavyweight boxing champion, Henry Maske.

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