2021 – Page 129 – Americana UK

Something for the weekend: “Ae Fond Kiss” from the soundtrack to “Our Ladies”

September 3, 2021 Mark Whitfield 6

Well that’s it for us for another week dear reader. We’re off to the Moseley Folk Fest to hopefully avoid a briefly forecast thunderstorm and enjoy the pleasures of The Waterboys, Passenger and Emily Barker among […]

Clint’s Classic Clips: The Mavericks “What A Crying Shame” – Live on Later with Jools Holland, 1994

September 3, 2021 Clint West 0

Fabulous TV performance from a wonderful band still going strong. This month I should have been looking forward to seeing The Mavericks play live in Manchester. However, due to the uncertainties thrown up by the pandemic, […]

Jaspar Lepak “One Brave Life” – looking for life’s gifts

September 3, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

‘One Brave Life‘ is, if you like, a dream list for a perfect life – “we all one great love / we all one true home” sings Lepak to a jangling banjo accompaniment. But…but it’s not […]

Shuffle: Australia Part Three

September 3, 2021 David Cowling 0

In this (what was to be) final look at the music coming out of Australia I’m going to concentrate on The Ocean Party and the many offshoots from the and then finally I’ll take look at […]

Festival Review: Red Rooster Festival, Euston Hall, Suffolk, 27th-29th August 2021

September 3, 2021 Oliver Gray 0

Our roving reporter, Oliver Gray, gets back into the field as music opens up. After a six-hour in-depth review of the M25, we arrived to the strains of Iraina Mancini, with a surprising and reassuringly old-fashioned […]