Jonathan Aird

Beans On Toast “Pelican Crossing” – where’s the button now?

November 5, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Beans On Toast has a new album coming out on December 1st called “Kill Them With Kindness“, and the lead song from it is this examination of the complications of modern life. Everything changes, there are […]

Elles Bailey “Take A Step Back” – slow it down

November 4, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Elles Bailey is one of the leading lights of the UK Americana scene, and following the announcement of her upcoming album “Can’t Take My Story Away,” which comes out January 16th on Cooking Vinyl and Outlaw […]

Grateful Dead – still playing in the band

November 3, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Well, the beloved feature Americana UK’s Halloween Horrors has come to its natural end, which can only mean that we’ve successfully reached November – well done everyone. And, as day follows night, that can only mean […]

Americana UK’s Halloween Horrors – something wicked this way comes

October 31, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Ah, I fear this will be our last meeting, for the fell day has arrived – Halloween, that some do call Goth Christmas…and this is our last opportunity to offer you a comfy seat… sit anywhere… […]

Stephen Simmons “Grandpa’s Jacket” – welcome to the show

October 31, 2025 Jonathan Aird 1

There is an unnamed, but well stocked, subgenre of music in general which reflects on the toll that the troubadour life takes, and ‘Grandpa’s Jacket‘ by Stephen Simmons is well within that subgenre. There’s a weariness […]