It’s great when you go to see an old hero and know all the songs. It’s also great to hear fine, new, unfamiliar music – particularly in an intimate setting. So, 48 hours after Patti Smith wowed a couple of […]
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I’m running out of superlatives for Patti Smith. I haven’t seen her play a better show than the glorious couple of hours she delivered at Brighton’s Dome last night. She and her band have been on the road for several […]
Should that be ‘Wussier’? Anyway, just in case you weren’t immediately persuaded that this is a band worthy of a little obsession, I thought I’d offer an update. Last Friday’s Guardian review of (new European compilation catch-up CD) Buckeye was in deliberately circumspect mode, […]
Just when I was feeling regretful about not heading up to Stornoway for this year’s HebCeltFest, another distinctive, vibrant and immersive folk tradition comes a-calling here in Brighton… The Black Twig Pickers brought their irresistible, stomping Appalachian songs and tunes to Sticky […]
You know those times when you hear a band for the first time and they’ve just got it and then you have to rush around enthusing and telling people to go and listen to them for themselves? You do? Good. This is […]
This has been my year of getting into Michael Chapman – finally seeing him play live and catching up on his hugely impressive (and hugely enjoyable) back catalogue. Then along comes this cherishable compilation from Tompkins Square Oh Michael, Look What You’ve Done… […]
It’s about time for another recommendation for the always interesting and entertaining Secret Sessions, who have just put up this great video of The Proclaimers reprising their signature song ‘500 miles’. It’s really good to see them on such great form… And if you […]
Some lovely music from Two Wings at the Needlemakers in Lewes last night… It’s a cafe that doesn’t normally stage gigs and there was a somewhat shambolic air – no stage or lights, random folding chairs, a flickering subtitled film projected on […]
In the week after his 71st birthday, Bob Dylan receives the Medal of Freedom from President Obama. This is apparently the highest civilain award in the US, for those who have made “an especially meritorious contribution to the security or […]
Three days of music in the halls and clubs and pubs and nooks and crannies of Brighton. Hundreds upon hundreds of bands. Good, enthusiastic crowds. A well attended industry convention in parallel… Downloading seems just as far from ‘killing music’ […]
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