Daddy Long Legs pummels audiences with rootsy rock n roll, country blues. It’s a night ride on a runaway train through Northern Irish punk, God’s country revival meetings and Quatermass’ pit. The band is named after the lead singer, who […]
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Banditos is a six-piece band of brothers and one sister from Birmingham; Alabama (‘ain’t no ham like Birmingham’ right?). They’re based in Nashville now, and describe themselves as “Country, Rock n Roll, Soul, Blues, Bluegrass, Hard Boogie, Retro, Gothic Lolita, […]
“I kicked a beehive just to see you run.” I like that. I like that in a story. I wouldn’t leave you now I’m having too much fun These are the opening lines for “Sideshow”, a song hidden in a CD […]
“All Through The City” suddenly started thumping from the stage. Terri Hooley must have finished spinning records as part of the support for the gig, and Wilko must have landed on stage and just started blasting it out. I’d been […]
Mary Gauthier writes songs that elbow you in the gut, and then catch you as you are falling. They feel your pain. They’ve been there, and then some. Her beginnings are well documented already; but they are so fundamental to […]
Some might recall edges of the mid-1900s Delta blues, but only if those lived-in riffs were played by the MC5, broadcast through booming stadium speakers and drenched with pounds of fuzzy distortion and full-throttled punk rock energy. Denver band The […]
Banditos new self titled album from Bloodshot, offers elements of ‘60s blues-fused acid rock, ZZ Top’s jangly boogie, garage punk scuzz a la Burger Records, the Drive-By Truckers’ yawp, the populist choogle of CCR, Slim Harpo’s hip shake baby groove, […]
Villagers is an Irish indie folk band who have been painting poignant, searching, sometimes just plain dark musical pictures since 2008. On the release of their third album Darling Arithmetic, frontman and founder Conor O’Brien spoke with me about music, love, […]
She’s a dazzling fiddler, a singer, and a stepdancer; and on occasion, she’s a fiddler and stepdancer at the same time. April Verch harks from Canada’s Ottawa Valley, and from birth has been immersed in traditional, folk, roots music. She […]
There was a happy healthy buzz. It was the second night of the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival and a lot was on offer; choices had to be made. There were punk heroes The Stranglers in the marquee for a start, […]
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