November 2024 – Page 19

Book review: Oliver Gray “Austin Healing – Cautionary Tales From 20 Years Of SXSW”

November 14, 2024 Paul Kerr 1

Oliver Gray should be known to AUK readers as our regular Austin correspondent having reviewed the annual SXSW Festival for us over several years. He is, of course, not an Austinite, nor even American. He is […]

Chris Acker “Famous Lunch”

November 14, 2024 Darren Lumbroso 0

Humourous and touching perspectives on life’s fleeting and provocative banalities. In 2014, Chris Acker left his childhood home of Seattle in Washington State to hitchhike to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Since then, he’s worked as […]

Continental Shift: 2. Finland

November 14, 2024 Rick Bayles 3

The second of our European countries and we’re heading north, to a place with more than 180,000 lakes! When I told Americana UK colleague, Martin Johnson, that I was working on this series he suggested that […]

Isaac Roux “Troubled Waters”

November 14, 2024 Jonny Brick 2

Belgian singer/songwriter’s delectable debut. Louis De Roo is a Belgian graduate of LIPA up in Liverpool; famous alumni/ae include Americana act Alyssa Bonagura, dance producer SG Lewis, Murph from The Wombats, singer/songwriter Dan Croll and broadcaster […]

Jesper Lindell “Sweetheart Like You” – hanging around the bad side of town

November 14, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

Jesper Lindell’s latest project is an album called ‘Windows, Vol2’ which follows the same path as the Vol 1 – with the Swedish singer-songwriter covering songs from his influences. And today it is Dylan, often seen […]