Black Deer Festival: Friday
"...Zimmerman picked up the electro-acoustic and absolutely smashed it (and basically everything) with her slide guitar skill. Moment of the festival right there on day one..."
The Round Up 14 with Danni Nicholls, Lost Hollow, Penny Riviera and Two Ways Home
"I left at 18 and vowed I'd never return. Then I became a singer-songwriter...so I had to pop home"
Write Like A Girl
"...Emily Faye, Vic Allen and Beth Keeping had been inspired to tour the country to celebrate and showcase female songwriters after learning that only 17% (!!) of UK songwriters are…
Lisa Wright 229 The Venue concert review
23 May, 2018: Lisa Wright at 229 The Venue, London “I’m so bloody glad to be here!” Lisa Wright started with a song that set the tone, Rising Strong. The…
Hannah Aldridge and Ellisha Green
"...Aldridge's vocals were beautiful, the lyrics introspective, and the way she harnessed silence as an instrument in a pin-drop quiet room was masterful..."
Will Varley Spirit of Minne album review
Spirit of Minnie by Will Varley “Breaking news I can’t hear anymore/lines in the sand that we used to draw/looking for another kind of war” It’s rare that an album…
Liv Austen The Bedford concert review
"the exquisite uncanniness of feeling familiar with her songs even if you've never heard them before"
Belle Adair Tuscumbia album review
Tuscumbia by Belle Adair The record starts rich but tender, the harmonies setting up an album of chilled musings. Long Fade Out has a 90s modern rock vibe somewhere between…
Album Review: Sonia Leigh – Mad Hatter
"...the music zings and shudders and Leigh burst in with a vocoder. It's a shot in the arm..."
Album Review: Mavis Staples – If All I Was Was Black
"Some people are saying they want to make the world great again, but we never lost our greatness. We just strayed into division."
Concert Review: Saskia and Jacob & Drinkwater
It exceeded all expectations for a successful album launch
Album Review – Juanita Stein – America
Juanita Stein explore the meaning of America and Americans from a distance and at the most intimate levels - from widescreen to close-up - revealing dualities, contrasts and balance all…
Two Ways Home Buck N Bull concert review
June 17, 2017: Two Ways Home – Buck N Bull at Vauxhall Arches On a balmy evening in Vauxhall, something very strange happened. A uniformed army streamed through a railway…
Yola Borderline concert review
8 June, 2017: Yola at Borderline, London
The Coal Porters, Phil Odgers and Smith & Brewer concert review
May 7, 2017: The Coal Porters, Phil Odgers with Bobby Valentino, and Ben Smith & Jimmy Brewer at Union Chapel Upper Hall “Purveyors of fine songs and fine velvet jackets”It’s…
Dave Hause: Bury Me In Philly album review
Continuing the journey through recovery, relapse and redemption