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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?
Album Reviews

VanWyck “An Average Woman” (Independent, 2018)

February 19, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

VanWyck is an Amsterdam based singer who has tried out a number of different musical genres on her path to this intimate album of confessional songs. It’s a wildly varying CV taking in classical piano, rapping, […]

Features

Girl from the North Country, The Noel Coward Theatre, London

February 16, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

A West End musical based entirely on the songs of Bob Dylan has to rank quite highly in the list of things that will never exist. And yet Girl from the North Country is that very […]

News

Rufus Wainwright UK Summer Tour just announced

February 16, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

Scion of the musically prolific Wainwright family,  Rufus has revealed himself to be perhaps the most musically diverse of them all.   His eight studio albums include the landmark Want One, his classic Grammy nominated album Rufus Does Judy was […]

Tracks

Track Premiere: Simon D James “Dearest Lovely World”

February 16, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

Brighton based singer-songwriter Simon D James has a global vision, and his debut single Dearest Lovely World was written whilst he was volunteering in the Calais refugee camps.  This experience led him to recognise that “regardless of […]

News

Mavis Staples has UK dates in June & July

February 15, 2018 Jonathan Aird 1

Following on from her latest Jeff Tweedy produced album If All I Was Was Black and then touring with Bob Dylan the legendary Mavis Staples has announced a handful of European dates for 2018, including two nights back-to-back […]

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Interview: Mean Mary answers six of one and half a dozen of the other

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The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It’s not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with the […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

February 17, 2026 0

Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

Interviews

Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

February 12, 2026 2

If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Here’s the premiere of the latest video from Kevin Bowe & The Okemah Prophets.  The intriguingly-titled ‘I Hate Falling in Love’ begins with Bowe’s smooth-toned, beautifully-melodic and resonant voice, and this remains the ethereal focus throughout […]

Album Reviews

Bryan Estepa “Sometimes I Just Don’t Know” (Lilystars Records/Rock Indiana, 2019)

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Estepa is a well-established Australian singer songwriter with several albums under his belt. While he is a fairly new name in the UK he is certainly worth your attention. Lead off song ‘I’m Not Ready For […]

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Erin Rae “Can’t Cut Loose” – Listen

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‘Can’t Cut Loose’ is Erin Rae’s new single from her forthcoming album ‘Putting on Airs’ on Single Lock Records.  That’s John Paul White’s label – and he signed her on first hearing because, as he says, […]

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