Columns
Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 55
Education way beyond the classroom and whisper it… perhaps more important Throughout my life in education I have firmly believed that at least 50% of my job as an educator is to enable students to […]
Articles by Keith Hargreaves
Album Reviews
Icarus Phoenix “Sometimes our shadow can get in the way”
A beautiful, life affirming slice of melodious Americana-tinged indie pop. Be it Fountains of Wayne or They Might be Giants there is a strata of American music that flirts with the mainstream but is defiantly indie […]
Album Reviews
Wilco “Cruel Country”
Wilco embrace country music in a glorious, gorgeous return to the very peak of both Tweedy’s songwriting and his band’s powers. For the first time since 2007s ‘Sky Blue Sky‘ Wilco have made an album as […]
Columns
Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 54
God I’ve missed this…. So it happened this week. My last indoor gig was on the 19th March 2020 The Felice Brothers in Cambridge. It was small, intimate and alternately heartbreaking and raucously joyous. Everything live […]
Album Reviews
Tennessee Stiffs “Dearly Departed”
Concept album as therapy delivers mixed results Using the therapy of a double concept album to overcome the anguish of being ripped off by a shyster management and record company that took their money and disappeared […]