Jonathan Aird

The Blue Aeroplanes “Welcome Stranger !” (Independent, 2017)

December 22, 2016 Jonathan Aird 0

The Blue Aeroplanes return with their most stable line-up to date to proffer up a collection of agitprop poetry set to jangly indie rock. Lead singer, poet and founder member Gerard Langley remains unimpressed by the […]

Shirley Collins – Lodestar live at The Barbican

December 19, 2016 Jonathan Aird 0

If someone had said just a few years ago that 2016 would see a new album from Shirley Collins, with a live performance of the same in 2017 then there would have been few who’d have […]

King Creosote – big band bound for Barbican

December 14, 2016 Jonathan Aird 0

On January 22nd (that’s a Sunday folks!) Kenny Anderson (aka King Creosote) will present an expanded performance of music from his new album, Astronaut Meets Appleman. It’s already been hailed as a career highlight and sees […]

David Simard “The Heavy Wait” (Independent, 2016)

December 13, 2016 Jonathan Aird 0

The second full length alum by Vancouverian David Simard is a dark toned thing. Mordant meditations on love to a funereal accompaniment are the grist that fills David Simard’s mill. So much so that when he […]

2016 : we’re lost in music – caught in a trap.

December 12, 2016 Jonathan Aird 0

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 […]