Features
2016 : we’re lost in music – caught in a trap.
You could point at almost any year this century and it would be a vintage year for music – there’s so much out there that, once one has struggled through the ever expanding amount that is […]
Articles by Jonathan Aird
Album Reviews
Martin Scorsese “No Direction Home–10th anniversary edition” (White Horse Productions, 2016)
It would be a huge exaggeration to say that Martin Scorsese’s documentary film on Dylan‘s early years in Greenwich Village reignited his career but, when it was initially broadcast in 2006, it did serve to increase […]
Live Reviews
Radical Face, The Scala, London – Tuesday 22nd November 2016
The Scala’s stage had been transformed into a magical winter forest – with bare skeletal trees adorned with tiny lights and a drifting mist from the smoke machine making for a Narnian backdrop for both Radical […]
Live Reviews
Jon Boden: The Stables, Wavendon – Wednesday 9th October 2016
On his first solo tour the erstwhile voice and frontman of Bellowhead, Jon Boden, has not lost his flair for the dramatic. There’s a variety of stage lighting, and props: ragged looking speakers and decorative battered […]
Album Reviews
Oriental Sunshine “Dedicated to the bird we love” (Round 2 Records, 2016)
Dedicated to the bird we love is the debut, and only, album by Norwegian psychedelic folk band Oriental Sunshine. They got together in the heady year of 1968 – a trio consisting of singer Nina Johansen, […]