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Live Review: UK Americana Music Week, Loose Music Takeover @The AMAUK Showcase, Paper Dress Vintage, Hackney, London – 24th January 2023

February 2, 2023 KC Vines 0

Remember live indoor music festivals, the ones that get held in the winter, when it’s raining or snowing outside? January ‘21 and ’22 put paid to these. They got replaced by the online “live” performances that […]

Live Review: Paul Heaton + Billy Bragg, OVO Hydro, Glasgow – 2nd December 2022

December 9, 2022 KC Vines 0

I had intended to open this review by noting that, for me, this would be the second in a row of male / female vocal acts I’d reviewed for AUK (after War and Treaty back in […]

Live Review: The War and Treaty, St Luke’s and the Winged Ox, Glasgow – 17th June 2022

June 23, 2022 KC Vines 0

The Nashville signed The War and Treaty, led by husband-and-wife Tanya and Michael Trotter have played at the Grammys and the Grand Ol’ Opry, but this is their first UK Tour. “Do you like my banter?” […]

Live review: Ian Noe, Lafayette, London – 30th May 2022

June 8, 2022 KC Vines 0

Nestled below corporate buildings and next door to Google’s HQ sits Lafayette, a new stripped-back venue. On a wet Tuesday it’s mobbed, the folks from these parts desperate for unadorned tales of small-town Kentucky: of gravel […]

The Felice Brothers + Carson McHone, The Old Market, Hove, 31st January 2020

February 14, 2020 KC Vines 0

My brother moved to Hove many years ago. More sedate than its brash next-door cousin, Brighton, he often told me about this independent venue that was walking distance from his flat and whose previous incarnation had […]