The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Yorkshire is so much part of me.
West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.
The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.
Growing up around British music, you realise how much depth there is to it... my stuff is different to the likes of Pitbull for that reason.
You know Manchester is always a bit of a hard place for people coming from London, just with all the history. Manchester has this immensely huge and healthy history musically.
I think it would be nice to see more of an open culture to different music.
I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.
There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.