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Bennett, Wilson, Poole, St Barnabus Church, Oxford, 31st May 2018

June 5, 2018 Keith Hargreaves 0

What a night. Torrential rain. Flooding in and out of the venue. A support act using the Oedipal curse repeatedly during the final song of their set despite being in a very beautiful house dedicated to […]

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Giant Sand return to their Valley of Rain

June 5, 2018 Paul Kerr 0

35 years after releasing their debut album, ‘Valley of Rain’, Howe Gelb and his Tucson based tearaways Giant Sand have only gone and re recorded the whole shebang and following on a clutch of shows in […]

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Nashville Meets London (again) at the end of next month

June 5, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

This week at Waterloo Station you can find the sights and sounds of Tennessee, and if that’s not enough Tennesseean goodness for you then fear not because the Nashville Meets London Music Festival music festival returns […]

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Video: Deer Tick “Wants/Needs”

June 5, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

The excellent new single from Rhode Island roots-rockers Deer Tick, taken from their latest album Vol 2 (released together with Vol 1).  Great video too and you can catch the band on tour in the UK and […]

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Songs in the South: David Starr + Martha L Healy + Al Shields, The Glad Cafe, Glasgow, 30th May 2018

June 4, 2018 Paul Kerr 0

Glasgow’s very hip Glad Cafe hosted this night of singer/songwriters playing “in the round” as popularised by The Bluebird Cafe (in Nashville, although the Edinburgh eatery and venue of the same name hosted this self same […]

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