A wet, windy night during the winter storms sweeping the country made me wonder how many people would turn out on such an evening for Aoife O’Donovan’s first ever Brighton show. I needn’t have worried. Many, like me, made the […]
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Often when I’m on my way to a gig with my better half, Richard, we ponder as to how many ‘music pals’ will be at the show… on the train to London to see Rod Picott we deliberated and thought […]
Like many in the UK I think I first heard Slaid Cleaves on the radio when Bob Harris played No Angel Knows from the album of the same name, back in 1999 (can it really be that long ago?) on […]
A friend who hosts a radio show in Melbourne, Australia often plays songs by Session Americana, a loose collective of Boston (USA) musicians, and if Colin is giving them air time then they must be worth checking out! I was […]
In Daydreamer John Fullbright sings “I’m a young man today/That’s got nothing left to say about tomorrow” which if you’ve ever seen him play live or listened to his albums (LIVE AT THE BLUE DOOR and FROM THE GROUND UP) […]
It was serendipity…there was I just getting ready to go to work but sneaking in time to check out what was happening in the land of Facebook and could hardly believe my eyes when I saw a post by the […]
Jimmy LaFave and Night Tribe, The 100 Club (London, UK September 19th 2013) “The good news is we received some requests, the bad news is that we will be here for three more days” said Jimmy LaFave to his band, […]
When the dates for Sam Baker’s UK tour were published I was disappointed to see that the furthest south he would be playing was in London. Living near Brighton, I can get up to London easily enough but like, if […]
Here’s a business plan…team up with another singer/songwriter, release your first two albums as free downloads, tour extensively as headliners and as openers for more well known bands, see a Grammy award winner tweet favourably about you, release your third […]
The Milk Carton Kids are a folk duo from Eagle Rock, California who formed in 2011 when Joey Ryan heard Kenneth Pattengale singing Memoirs of an Owned Dog (the lyrics are from the perspective of a dead dog) and was […]
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