David Chalfen

Live Review: The Rural Alberta Advantage + Zoon, Lafayette, London – 4th December 2023

December 13, 2023 David Chalfen 0

After over 15 years as a trio, with five albums plus a trio of EPs, the three members of Rural Alberta Advantage (namely, Nils Edenloff – lead vocals, guitar, keyboard; Amy Cole – multi-instrumentalist and vocalist […]

Live Review: Robbie Cavanagh and Georgia van Etten, Green Note, London – 27th October 2023

December 5, 2023 David Chalfen 1

Robbie Cavanagh’s current tour has been heavily North England focused so it’s a pleasure to see him playing in Camden Town (not his first gig at this intimate and always welcoming venue) after doing his cultural […]

Live Review: Kathryn Tickell and the Darkening, Cecil Sharp House, London – 26th October 2023

November 8, 2023 David Chalfen 0

Kathryn Tickell has, down the decades of a 30-year career – her first album released at just 16 years old – been given cultural thumbs up by all the heavyweight Fleet Street broadsheets (younger readers, ask […]

Live Review: Suzie Ungerleider + Christina Martin, Green Note, London – 5th July 2023

July 19, 2023 David Chalfen 0

Both tonight’s acts are Canadian-based and raised, albeit now separated by the 3000+ miles between Nova Scotia and Vancouver. Christina Martin is up first. The previous weekend she was casting her musical pearls barely 10 metres […]

Live Review: Jill Jackson, The Camden Club, London – 21st April 2023

May 3, 2023 David Chalfen 0

Jill Jackson has been plying her craft in the industry for over 20 years and following some recent support slots for Eddi Reader has added a tour in her own right. For a performer who has […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 1

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers

August 5, 2026 0

Includes tracks from My Morning Jacket, Lucinda Williams and MJ Lenderman among others. Cinema Music Group, Killphonic Records, and City Slang have announced Heart of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young, Vol. 2 – Out of […]

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