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About Jonathan Aird
Sure, I could climb high in a tree, or go to Skye on my holiday. I could be happy. All I really want is the excitement of first hearing The Byrds, the amazement of decades of Dylan's music, or the thrill of seeing a band like The Long Ryders live. That's not much to ask, is it?
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Laith “Texas Winds” – Blowing wild in the lone star state

March 13, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
‘Texas Winds‘ is a road song – inspired by the I-10 that let Laith get out to play gigs and back home again afterwards, as he explains it the song “derived from all the times I’ve […]
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The No Ones “Phil Ochs Is Dead” – but ever present

March 10, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Doesn’t this sound like someone you used to love?  Of course it does – and the likely cause is that the No Ones includes Peter Buck in the line-up.  ‘Phil Ochs Is Dead‘ is from the […]
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Karan Casey “The Rocks Of Bawn” – a mighty hard row to hoe

March 10, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Karan Casey’s latest album ‘Nine Apples Of Gold‘ contains a range of topics across its ten tracks – but this beautiful rendering to ‘The Rocks Of Bawn’ is strangely topical for a song so traditional.  There’s […]
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Dream Team Triple Header – Suzanne Vega, Billy Bragg, Seasick Steve

March 9, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Oh, Songkick, you’re really treating us this time with your semi-random email header denoting a wondrous triple header of a gig that isn’t actually going to happen.  But what if it did?  How would the Queen […]
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Sun Years “Come Fetch My Soul” – rock and roll is the gateway…

March 9, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Well, this is sumptuously gorgeous – Sun Years is the side-project of Peter Morén of Peter Bjorn and John and today’s song is the lead single and title track of his soon to be released on […]

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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

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Dale Watson figured it out. He figured out what’s wrong with our disconnected, polarised era. He figured out why we’re caught in a death spiral of social media outrage, intractable positions, and argument instead of dialogue. […]
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Abigail Lapell to play extensive UK and European tour in November

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Toronto singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell, who is releasing her new album Shadow Child on 8th May 2026 via Outside Music, has announced a run of six UK headline shows as part of a wider UK and European […]
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Track Premiere: Candace Hastings “Horses I Left Behind”

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Candace Hastings is long steeped in songwriting. Her first came when she was in fifth grade; it had just one chord and was written on the three-quarter-size Kay guitar that her mother bought for her the […]

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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

April 21, 2026 0
Dale Watson figured it out. He figured out what’s wrong with our disconnected, polarised era. He figured out why we’re caught in a death spiral of social media outrage, intractable positions, and argument instead of dialogue. […]
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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

April 17, 2026 0
Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
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Interview: Thomas Ådland, of Thomas & The Angry Hearts, on Language, Love and Identity

April 13, 2026 0
Two days before I heard them fill Martin’s Bar in Lillestrøm, I watched Thomas & The Angry Hearts make music in a wooden house surrounded by trees. In that studio, sound was built patiently: a harmony […]

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Live Review: Musics From Summerisle, The Barbican, London – 24th June 2023

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“Welcome Fool!” Lord Summerisle declared as Edward Woodward stared in shock at his fate – the hunter become the hunted, the reward of purity being eligibility for sacrifice.  It’s a moment of inversion in British Horror, […]
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Video Premiere: Alice Howe “A Case of You”

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Simply, this is a beautiful version of a beautiful song.  It’s a brave thing to cover such an outstanding piece of work as Joni Mitchell’s ‘A Case of You’.  However, Alice Howe pulls it off in […]

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