News
Grateful Dead – 30 days of November
In an act of typical generosity The Grateful Dead are giving away a song a day all through the month of November. Covering all periods of the Dead these range from a few minutes long to […]
Articles by Jonathan Aird
Album Reviews
The T.S. Eliot Appreciation Society “Turn it Golden” (Greywood Records, 2016)
Tom Gerritsen (a.k.a. The T.S. Eliot Appreciation Society) proffers a back story which invites disbelief – born into a travelling carnival he abandoned the carny life to write songs whilst working in a bookshop before taking […]
Live Reviews
The Lumineers: Hammersmith Apollo, London – 4th November 2016
The Lumineers burst onto the scene with a huge breakthrough hit Ho, Hey, and quickly found themselves pigeonholed alongside the likes of Mumford & Sons. Whereas that band had shot religious imagery right through their lyrics […]
Album Reviews
3hattrio “Solitaire” (American Desert Music, 2016)
I’d never be one to suggest that experimentation is of itself not a good thing, and 3hattrio’s music does offer something new – their blend of elements of roots Americana with a modern jazz sensibility and […]
Album Reviews
Steve Grozier “Take My Leave” (Batcat Records, 2016)
Steve Grozier has had the four songs which make up the Take My Leave EP knocking around unrecorded for more than a decade. Not stuffed, half forgotten, in a draw like some embarrassing half finished first […]