Also is the boutique festival where you can immerse yourself in the work of leading writers, academics and experts, all in beautiful countryside. Great British Songwriters The songs and stories of some of our greatest musicians Daniel Rachel's book Isle of Noises, features brand-new, exclusive, in-depth converstaions with 27 of the UK's most-loved musicians, from Ray [...]

BBC 5 Live Up All Night  2:00 am - 4:00 am BBC Radio 5 19 Jul @ 2:00 am - 4:00 am Up All Night with Dotun Adebayo BBC 5 LIVE: Daniel is the special guest on Dotun Adebayo’s Virtual Jukebox from 02.35am Your chance to help Dotun and Daniel pick the latest addition to Up All Night’s eclectic music [...]

BBC 5 Live Up All Night  2:00 am - 4:00 am BBC Radio 5 6 September @ 2:00 am - 4:00 am Up All Night with Dotun Adebayo BBC 5 LIVE: Daniel is the special guest on Dotun Adebayo’s Virtual Jukebox from 02.35am Your chance to help Dotun and Daniel pick the latest addition to Up All Night’s eclectic music [...]

Salon event - Great Tew, Oxfordshire

DANIEL RACHEL MASTERCLASS 9TH OCT '15 Musician turned author, Daniel Rachel has released four critically acclaimed studio albums. Recently, he has geared his passion for songwriting towards writing and is the author of Isle of Noise – Conversations with Great British Songwriters. The tome looks at the heart of the creative process of songwriting and includes interviews [...]

BBC 5 Live Up All Night  2:00 am - 4:00 am BBC Radio 5 18 October @ 2:00 am - 4:00 am Up All Night with Dotun Adebayo BBC 5 LIVE: Daniel is the special guest on Dotun Adebayo’s Virtual Jukebox. Your chance to help Dotun and Daniel pick the latest addition to Up All Night’s eclectic music collection. [...]

BBC 5 Live Up All Night  2:00 am - 4:00 am BBC Radio 5 1 November @ 2:00 am - 4:00 am Up All Night with Dotun Adebayo BBC 5 LIVE: Daniel is the special guest contributor on Dotun Adebayo’s Virtual Jukebox. Your chance to help Dotun and Daniel pick the latest addition to Up All Night’s eclectic music collection. [...]

BIMM London

LIPA, Liverpool. Paul McCartney school

BIMM Bristol   Musician turned author, Daniel Rachel has released four critically acclaimed studio albums. Recently, he has geared his passion for songwriting towards writing and is the author of Isle of Noise – Conversations with Great British Songwriters. The tome looks at the heart of the creative process of songwriting and includes interviews with some of [...]

Louder Than Words The brand new genre-based literary festival celebrating words - oral, written and published - associated with the music industry. Authors, poets, performers, lyrics and lyricists, journalists, DJs, bloggers and publishers of music and popular culture

Louder Than Words Festival 2015: 13th – 15th November, 2015. The Palace Hotel, Manchester. MOD Panel: Saturday 14th November, 3.45pm with Rick Buckler, Paul ‘Smiler’ Anderson and Simon Wells (Chair) Juke Box Fury: Saturday 14th November, 7.15pm with Richard Boon and others Daniel Rachel In Conversation: Sunday 15th November, 10.30am

University of South Wales - masterclass with songwriter and musician Richard J Parfitt Richard is best known as the front man of the successful rock trio 60ft Dolls during the 1990s. He brings his 25 years' of experience in the industry to his new role and will be based at the University’s Cardiff Campus. During [...]

BBC 5 Live Up All Night  2:00 am - 4:00 am BBC Radio 5 1 November @ 2:00 am - 4:00 am Up All Night with Dotun Adebayo BBC 5 LIVE: Daniel is the special guest contributor on Dotun Adebayo’s Virtual Jukebox. Your chance to help Dotun and Daniel pick the latest addition to Up All Night’s eclectic music collection. [...]

  Punk London Daniel will be hosting a special Q&A with Rockarchive founder and world renowned music photographer, Jill Furmanovsky, and Mark Perry (Sniffin' Glue/Alternative TV). A Chunk of Punk is a photographic celebration of 1970's subversive culture featuring a mainly unseen collection of Punk images of The Buzzocks, The Clash, The Sex Pistols and many [...]

BBC 5 Live Up All Night  2:00 am - 4:00 am BBC Radio 5 17 April @ 2:00 am - 4:00 am Up All Night with Dotun Adebayo BBC 5 LIVE: Daniel is the special guest contributor on Dotun Adebayo’s Virtual Jukebox. Your chance to help Dotun and Daniel pick the latest addition to Up All Night’s eclectic music collection. [...]

'A Lover Sings' In conversation with Billy Bragg # Billy Bragg will be in conversation about his new lyric book "A Lover Sings" with Daniel Rachel, acclaimed author of Isle of Noises: Conversations with Great British Songwriters, punctuated with songs and Q&A in what promises to be a very special performance.  

How Did Reggae Influence Punk? -Friday 8 July Roundhouse, Camden Daniel joins an esteemed panel to discuss  punk and reggae in the late Seventies. Guests include Steel Pulse founder Mykaell Riley, cultural producer, feminist activist and punk band member Chardine Taylor-Stone and multi Sony Award-winner Ray Paul of Punch Records. 7.30pm

BBC 5 Live Up All Night - Virtual Jukebox Daniel is the special guest contributor on the Virtual Jukebox. July 16 @ 2:00 am - 4:00 am BBC 5 Live Up All Night  2:00 am - 4:00 am BBC Radio 5 July 16l @ 2:00 am - 4:00 am Up All Night with Dotun Adebayo and Daniel Rachel Your chance to help Dotun and [...]

Edinburgh International Book Festival DANIEL RACHEL Sat 20 Aug 7:00pm - 8:00pm Baillie Gifford Corner Theatre  £8.00, £6.00 IN PRAISE OF PROTEST SONGS Political protest seems to happen more in other countries nowadays, but in the 70s and 80s Britain was awash with activism, both on the streets and on the musical stage. In this event, [...]

Red Wedge:Billy Bragg in conversation with Daniel Rachel To celebrate the book launch of Walls Come Tumbling Down join us for an evening with Billy Bragg in-conversation with author, Daniel Rachel including live music, an audience Q&A and a rare screening of the Red Wedge film Days like These.   The period from 1976 to [...]

BBC Radio Scotland with Ricky Ross (Deacon Blue)   15:05-15:35 in conversation with Ricky Ross and Nicola Meighan about Walls Come Tumbling Down mixed in with tracks from RAR/2 Tone/ Red Wedge artists

WALLS COME TUMBLING DOWN The music and politics of rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge PRESS RELEASE   WALLS COME TUMBLING DOWN By DANIEL RACHEL Daniel Rachel presents an oral history of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge, consisting of interviews with over 100 key figures and contributors to this musical [...]

BBC LONDON Robert Elms Show Daniel will be discussing Walls Come Tumbling Down at 11.30am About the programme The Robert Elms show is a celebration of every aspect of this tumultuous city that we share. Three hours a day we revel in the stories and characters, memories and aspirations which make this such a great [...]