Single Review: Liv Austen – Window Shopping
"...another cracking Liv Austen song, surely destined to be her third Chris Country radio A-list single in a row..."
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Nashville Meets London Presents: American Young & Kate Ellis
"...a great night of music and laughter..."
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…
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: 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
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
Worry Dolls – Go Get Gone review: cohesive and assured
You don’t have to spend much time at country and Americana shows in London before you come across Rosie Jones and Zoë Nicol. If they’re not on stage themselves they’re…
Smith and Brewer EP review
Ben Smith and Jimmy Brewer by Smith and Brewer Ben Smith and Jimmy Brewer’s voices soothe us right from the start. It’s a tale of loneliness and anticipation, twin emotions…
Third Eye Blind and Symmetry concert review
November 6, 2015: Third Eye Blind and Symmetry at O2 Forum, Kentish Town, London
Northcote and The Lion and The Wolf concert review
September 2, 2015: Northcote and The Lion and The Wolf at The Old Blue Last, Shoreditch “Thank you for listening to my misery” The show was opened by 29-year-old British…