Videos
Video: Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy “At the Back of the Pit”
We leave you this week dear reader on this blackest of Fridays with a treat worth much more than that 63 inch TV you don’t need, but you know – there’s a Carry On joke in […]
Articles by Mark Whitfield
News
Red Rooster announce 2020 festival line-up
The always excellent Red Rooster festival has announced the first line-up for 2020, a 3-day event which takes place in the parkland and woods of Euston Hall, Suffolk from May 28th –30th. Described as “a good-time […]
News
Jeff Tweedy’s house gets shot at
The Guardian are reporting today that numerous gunshots have been fired at the Chicago home of Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, with his wife, Susan Miller Tweedy, reporting hearing “seven to 10 shots fired at what sounded like […]
News
Watch Che Apalache’s documentary on their US/Mexico Borderlands trip
In early October, Argentinian-American string band Che Apalache toured the US/Mexico borderlands of Arizona, performing in both Sahuarita, AZ and Nogales, Mexico. The trip was a harrowing look at the effect the border wall and the […]
Features
Songs for the apocalypse: Great Lake Swimmers “When It Flows”
Two of my favourite bands in the world are Great Lakes (Ben Crum’s indie-americana project from Georgia) and Great Lake Swimmers, the quintet currently based in a little known village north of Athens called Toronto. I […]