Graeme Tait

artwork for The Rye Sisters album "Distant Light"

The Rye Sisters “Distant Light”

January 19, 2024 Graeme Tait 3

A Joyous sophomore album guaranteed to banish the Mid-Winter blues. The Rye Sisters are a duo from Lincolnshire comprising of Sue Pomeroy guitar and vocals and Ishani Siriwardena violin and vocals who first joined forces back […]

AUK’s EP Round-Up – January 2024

January 15, 2024 Graeme Tait 0

So here we are, the first month of a new year and a new writer at the helm of the AUK’s EP Round-Up. Actually make that two new writers as my esteemed college Fred Arnold and […]

The Rye Sisters, Live at St Mary's Guildhall, Lincoln (Album Launch Party). - 15th December, 2023

Live Review: The Rye Sisters, Album Launch Party, St Mary’s Guildhall, Lincoln – 15th December 2023

January 8, 2024 Graeme Tait 0

Just a mere six years after the release of their debut album ‘Brave Unbeaten Paths’ The Rye Sisters finally deliver the perfect Christmas present for their ever increasing fan base with the news of the imminent […]

artwork for Dean Owens album 'Pictures".

Dean Owens “Pictures” (ft Neilson Hubbard and Will Kimbrough)

December 19, 2023 Graeme Tait 2

From East Lothian via East Nashville, Owens reunites with long-term collaborators to deliver eleven songs written during the pandemic years. There would be little exaggeration in suggesting that Dean Owens is possibly one of the hardest-working […]

Steven Adams “DROPS”

December 4, 2023 Graeme Tait 0

Adams returns to form with best album since halcyon days of The Broken Family Band. It is now closing in on fifteen years since the much-loved indie rockers the Broken Family Band finally called it a […]

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For The Sake Of The Song: Joni Mitchell “Woodstock”

May 11, 2026 0

The Woodstock festival held in 1969 at Yasgur’s farm, Bethel, New York, is one of those truly emblematic moments in the history of contemporary music, and indeed in the birth of americana. And of course it’s […]

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Nordic americana with a slightly heavier tinge. I’m Kingfisher is the alter ego of Swedish singer-songwriter Thomas Jonsson. Give Up Together is his sixth album under that guise and comes three years after his last release, […]

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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Igloo Hearts

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Igloo Hearts are James and Katie MacGregor, a married folk-pop duo from North Wales. For our next AUK mini-gig, they kindly agreed to share some of their latest songs with our readers and viewers. Since appearing […]

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The Rye Sisters “Distant Light”

AUK’s EP Round-Up – January 2024

Live Review: The Rye Sisters, Album Launch Party, St Mary’s Guildhall, Lincoln – 15th December 2023

Dean Owens “Pictures” (ft Neilson Hubbard and Will Kimbrough)

Steven Adams “DROPS”

For The Sake Of The Song: Joni Mitchell “Woodstock”

I’m Kingfisher “Give Up Together”

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Igloo Hearts

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