Jonathan Aird

Radical Face, The Scala, London – Tuesday 22nd November 2016

December 7, 2016 Jonathan Aird 0

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 […]

Jon Boden: The Stables, Wavendon – Wednesday 9th October 2016

November 30, 2016 Jonathan Aird 0

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 […]

Oriental Sunshine “Dedicated to the bird we love” (Round 2 Records, 2016)

November 29, 2016 Jonathan Aird 0

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, […]

Andy Irvine: Baldock and Letchworth Blues, Folk and Roots Club, Baldock – 19th October 2016

November 24, 2016 Jonathan Aird 0

Perched precariously on a collapsible stage barely large enough for his four bouzoukis, bag of harmonicas and himself – Andy Irvine looks surprisingly comfortable. This in spite of the perils experienced by those sat in the […]

Joe Purdy “Who Will Be Next?” (Bread and Butter Music, 2016)

November 23, 2016 Jonathan Aird 0

Neil Young, around the time of his Living With War, bemoaned the absence of other, and younger, protest singers. This was never really true, the difference was the level of media attention such artists could attract – […]