November 2021 – Page 3

Feature: How two Manchester women, fed up of people chatting at gigs, decided to put on their own shows – with a strict no talking policy

November 29, 2021 Clint West 1

Clint West meets Dawn and Tania of ‘The Hen House Presents’ at their own Otis Gibbs show. Recently whilst at a Peter Bruntnell gig, a friend handed me a flyer for an Otis Gibbs show in […]

Kiely Connell “Calumet Queen”

November 29, 2021 Kimberly Bright 0

A stunning and emotionally potent debut album from Midwestern singer-songwriter Kiely Connell. On the cover of Kiely Connell’s debut album “Calumet Queen” is a drawing of her wearing a beauty queen tiara with the spikes forming […]

Billy Bragg, The Albert Hall, Manchester, 20th November 2021

November 29, 2021 Guy Lincoln 1

Billy Bragg tours and plays gigs, a lot. We’ve missed him this last couple of years and evidently he’s missed us too. He tells us about his lockdown, how he’s missed gigging and his ongoing anxieties […]

Dion “Stomping Ground”

November 29, 2021 Russell Murphy 0

Classic stomping from a living legend. Here’s a guy that should need no introduction, an artist who has been prolific as a rock and roll artist, a folk singer-songwriter in the 60s, and indeed since that […]

Amy Jay “Monster” – I am multitudes…

November 29, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

Indie-folk artist, Amy Jay, has announced her upcoming album, ‘Awake Sleeper‘, from which the new single, “Monster” is taken. ‘Awake Sleeper’ is Jay’s first full-length release and follows two EPs, 2016’s ‘Supposed to Be’ and 2018’s […]