Features
Small Venue Heroes – Chuck Prophet
Chuck Prophet has been a regular feature of the live scene in the UK for over 30 years and although I have seen him several times, each of those time is joyous celebration of the uplifting […]
Articles by Keith Hargreaves
Album Reviews
Elkyn “Holy Spirit Social Club”
Wistful, sometimes dreamy, Sparkly folk from Leeds. Joey Donnelly is Elkyn and he is channelling many things with this sometime delicate, sometime urgent album the first of which on the opener ‘Change’ is Neil Halstead and […]
Album Reviews
Jerry Leger “Nothing Pressing”
Toronto artist serves up his lockdown songs – a treat for the ears. And so it is that this soulful and in some cases urgent record seeps into the listeners consciousness. Alternating between stark solo affairs, […]
Columns
Sounds from beyond the shed – Week 51
Believe it or not Easter Hols are coming Thank f**k for that. Covid numbers are at an all time high, spend more lessons covering for absent colleagues or uploading work for isolating students than I do […]
Columns
Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 50
When does education end and humiliation begin? Every year before COVID there was one activity that the whole school took part in at the same time in the same place. It inspired love, loathing, hatred, imaginative […]