Jonathan Aird

Jealous Of The Birds “Joan Of Arc” – she had a heart

May 19, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Larysa Musick – well, what chance did she have but to become a singer-songwriter? It’s ok, it’s a comment she acknowledges herself – although originally she seemed destined to be a poet and an illustrator-author. Yet […]

Matt Paxton & The Pintos “Southside Of The West Town” – are we doing it?

May 19, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

‘Southside of the West Town‘, the new song from Matt Paxton & The Pintos, inhabits a mood of encroaching hopelessness – in a darkened town, with the neon shining through the rain, the narrator questions themself […]

Deer Tick “Once In A Lifetime” – not a cover, far from it

May 19, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Sometimes it’s good to confess – and sometimes it’s embarrassing. Well, here goes – you know how it can be, you know how it can go down and you just don’t listen to a band for […]

Alasdair Roberts “The Bonny Moorhen” – that’s the bird for me…

May 18, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Alasdair Roberts has what is simply one of the finest of folk voices, an unaffected delivery which is totally in the service of whatever song he is singing. And ‘The Bonny Moorhen‘ from his latest album […]

Live Review: Kassi Valazza + Ann Liu Cannon, The Slaughtered Lamb, London – 27th April 2023

May 18, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

God but The Slaughtered Lamb was busy – upstairs was rammed and the beats of the music being played by the DJ easily penetrated into the basement music venue, a small space, similarly at capacity for […]

Something for the weekend: Teenage Fanclub “There Was You”

August 21, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you dear reader with a new song from Teenage Fanclub who will release their new album Do Not Dare To Dream on 9th October via […]

Alicia Blue “Country Desire”

August 21, 2026 0

A confident debut that shows the Nashville-based singer-songwriter has a vigour that sets her apart from the crowd. For singer-songwriter Alicia Blue, Waylon Jennings isn’t so much an influence as someone she calls “a creative angel […]

Classic Clips: Michael Hurley “Rhinefarm Session” – Vineyard at Gundlach Bundschu, 2015

August 21, 2026 0

Michael Hurley died last year, and wasn’t it starting to look like he wasn’t the dying kind? Every now and then someone goes, and it’s only then that you realise what you’d been hoping for: that […]

Articles by Jonathan Aird

Jealous Of The Birds “Joan Of Arc” – she had a heart

Matt Paxton & The Pintos “Southside Of The West Town” – are we doing it?

Deer Tick “Once In A Lifetime” – not a cover, far from it

Alasdair Roberts “The Bonny Moorhen” – that’s the bird for me…

Live Review: Kassi Valazza + Ann Liu Cannon, The Slaughtered Lamb, London – 27th April 2023

Something for the weekend: Teenage Fanclub “There Was You”

Alicia Blue “Country Desire”

Classic Clips: Michael Hurley “Rhinefarm Session” – Vineyard at Gundlach Bundschu, 2015

LA band Big Trouble to release their debut album “On Elephant Hill”

Devyn Brinsfield “Dreamers and Losers”