Videos
Video: Indigo Girls “Hammer And A Nail”
This week’s look back comes from the wonderful Indigo Girls, who’ve just started their first UK tour in a decade. You really should go and get there early too for support act Lucy Wainwright-Roche.
Year: 2017
Album Reviews
The Americans “I’ll Be Yours” (Loose, 2017)
With a CV as long as your auntie Susan’s shopping list, The Americans certainly win the prize for putting in the effort: previously serving as the backing band for Luncinda Williams, Nick Cave and Courtney Love […]
Live Reviews
Shakin’ Stevens + Danni Nicholls, York Barbican, York, 19th May, 2017
It’s a big room for the ‘bard from Bedford’, resplendent in a suitably showbiz spangling top. Danni Nichol is comfortable in a room that houses both the UK snooker championships and Amy MacDonald in a few […]
Album Reviews
Alan & The Big Hand “Yellow Car No Return” (Lost Wasp Records, 2017)
Alan & The Big Hand are described as a folk collective headed by Alan McClure. McClure is a writer and musician based in Galloway, south-west Scotland. His creative output encompasses oral storytelling, poetry, songs, novels, short […]
Album Reviews
The Allman Brothers Band “Hell & High Water : The best of the Arista years” (Retroworld ,2017)
The Arista Years were 1980 and 1981. This was a battered and bruised Allman Brothers Band which had taken casualties along the way – quite literally – and had seen frequent changes of personnel. And the […]