On checking tickets the venue staff gave each member of the audience a card requesting that they respect each other and the musicians by keeping noise to a minimum. That this advice was followed to the letter didn’t come from […]
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On checking tickets the venue staff gave each member of the audience a card requesting that they respect each other and the musicians by keeping noise to a minimum. That this advice was followed to the letter didn’t come from […]
Since forming 20 years ago Lucero have been frequently described as one of America’s hardest working bands. To mark their two decades of performing more days than they don’t, they will release on August 3rd their ninth studio album, Among […]
As the festival season is now underway in the sun soaked UK with many more coming up over the next couple of months how do you decide which one to attend? Obviously that depends on the artists but there’s also […]
In our record collections there are many albums that have become old friends. We may not meet that often, but when we do the pleasure is undiminished. For these pals we may even celebrate special anniversaries, of their release or […]
Belfast band The Rising are about to release their second album, Moving On. The title is especially well-chosen. Moving On describes not just the band’s development but specifically how they coped with lead guitarist, Chris Logan’s, near fatal accident. This […]
Guildhall in Winchester was built at the height of the Victorian obsession with Gothic architecture, a feature of which is to draw the eye upwards. That made for an ideal venue for Scott Matthews, whose music, and particularly whose voice, […]
The UK’s Country to Country festival in March is usually about the big names in the main O2 arena but the nearby smaller stages are very fertile ground for discovering new bands. This year’s pick of that new spring crop […]
Country Music has spawned so many sub genres that there surely cannot be any left. Not true, here’s a new one, “Country and West Yorkshire”. This is how Tony Wright and Ryan Hamilton describe their collaboration. To make the point […]
Kate Ellis released her first album, Carve Me Out, nearly a year ago since when its deserved initial acclaim has broadened steadily. Part of the album’s appeal is that it transcends the usual musical classifications as Ellis weaves strands of […]
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