January 2025 – Page 22

Video: The Ocelots “The Good of a Bad Year”

January 13, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0

Here’s some gorgeous, melodic melancholy from The Ocelots. “The Good of a Bad Year” is an absorbing song, driven by rhythmic, tumbling, flowing piano and a vulnerable vocal performance. Lush strings, subtle backing vocals from Jessie […]

Something for the weekend: Laura Marling “Caroline”

January 10, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

That’s it from us for our first week back and we leave you dear reader with a track which 6 Music has been playing to death this last few weeks and not without good reason – […]

The Gordon Sharpe Americana Book Award 2024

January 10, 2025 Tim Martin 0

This is the second year of our tribute to our late colleague Gordon Sharpe. We felt that an award which recognised the cream of the new books we’ve reviewed over the previous year was a fitting […]

AUK Back Pages No. 11

January 10, 2025 Paul Kerr 0

Well, Happy New Year to all here in 2025 as we delve into the then new year of 2008 with our latest peek into the AUK archives. As ever there’s a new cover design for the […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 169 “Travelling Music”

January 10, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

Just before Christmas, I travelled to Australia to attend my niece’s wedding. I was there for five days. I travelled for a total of sixty seven hours including stopovers etc. that’s nearly three days in old […]