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 […]