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Month: November 2017

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Anna Tivel “Small Believer” (Fluff & Gravy Records, 2017)

November 7, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0
Small Believer, the follow up to last year’s Heroes Waking Up shows, that Anna Tivel has no shortage of complex and satisfying songs at her finger tips. In fact her talent is nothing less than prodigious, […]
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Van Morrison Announces New Album : Versatile

November 7, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0
Rolling Stone reports (here) that, just three months after his last release Roll with the Punches, Van Morrison is preparing to releases his 38th studio LP. Where Roll with the Punches saw Van revisiting his blues […]
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Ian James Stewart “Articana” (Independent, 2017)

November 7, 2017 Paul Kerr 0
Cast your mind back to the eighties and the age of poodle haired AOR (Album Orientated Rock) bands and it’s the likes of Foreigner and Journey who come to mind. Some delving reveals that a bunch […]
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The Mining Co. “Mountain Fires” (Independent, 2017)

November 7, 2017 Rick Bayles 0
The Mining Company is singer/songwriter Michael Gallagher, indulging in the modern fashion of operating under a band name rather than his own. “Mountain Fires” is his second album, following on from 2016’s “Burning Sun and The […]
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CC Smugglers + All Our Exes Live In Texas, The Cookie, Leicester, 4 November 2017

November 7, 2017 Jeremy Searle 0
Although it was a Saturday and therefore de facto Bonfire Night a good-sized crowd piled into the basement of the Cookie and were rewarded with an outstanding evening.  Despite their name openers All Our Exes Live […]

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