2018 – Page 304 – Americana UK

James Edwyn & the Borrowed Band “High Fences” (Dead Records Collective, 2017)

January 15, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

January is a miserable month. The weather’s terrible, nobody has any money, everyone’s back at work for another year’s grind and there’s next to nothing happening musically. Which makes the release of ‘High Fences’ something to […]

Hunter Muskett “That Was Then This Is Now” (Limefield, 2013)

January 15, 2018 Peter Churchill 0

In 1969 The Beatles released Abbey Road, 150,000 attended the second Isle of Wight Festival, Lulu shared first place in the Eurovision with Boom Bang-a-Bang and, somehow absent from the Wikipedia entry for that year, Chris […]

The Deportees “The Birth Of Industry” (Independent 2017)

January 15, 2018 Owen Gillham 0

A foreboding vintage photograph of a grounded ship in an estuary adorns the cover of this, the debut release from Scotland’s The Deportees (who, after some momentary confusion, I realised are not to be confused with […]

Nils Lofgren has UK tour in May

January 15, 2018 Jonathan Aird 1

Nils Lofgren has announced a fifteen date tour of the UK in May this year. Sticking firmly to his “hardest working man in rock” reputation this is an epic sized tour that will be complete in […]

Video: Orphan Colours “High Hopes”

January 15, 2018 Jeremy Searle 1

From their long awaited debut album All On Red, out on January 26th, this is the first single from Orphan Colours and it’s a cracker. The video includes some great live footage from their triumphant set […]