Mark Whitfield

Something for the weekend: Hannah White “Safety From Harm”

October 18, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0

That’s it from us for another week and we leave you dear reader with a powerful new song from Hannah White, “Safety from Harm” which feels more resonant than ever after the horrific footage of tents […]

Something for the weekend: Merce Lemon “Backyard Lover”

October 11, 2024 Mark Whitfield 2

Well that’s it from us for another week, a week in which we saw the anniversary of the start of the Gaza genocide but as Amnesty pointed out this week, in reality it didn’t start on […]

Something for the weekend: Kris Kristofferson “Don’t Let the Bastards (Get You Down)”

October 4, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it for another week dear reader. If you’re an AUK supporter your new exclusive playlist will be with you at 5pm. In the meantime, who else could we leave you this week with a […]

Something for the weekend: Christy Moore “Victor Jara”

September 27, 2024 Mark Whitfield 3

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. I have been making my way over recent months through the lovely “Poetry for the Many” anthology put together by Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey. It’s […]

Something for the weekend: Toad the Wet Sprocket “Something’s Always Wrong” (Acoustic)

September 20, 2024 Mark Whitfield 1

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. Before we sign off for the week, just to note that there’s a national demo for Palestine tomorrow here in Liverpool partly because Freebies Starmer is […]

Live Review: Leah Blevins, Rough Trade, Denmark Street, London – 26th June 2026

July 3, 2026 0

Performances don’t get much more intimate when less than 50 people are in the front space of a record shop and the artist is playing unamplified, less than five feet away. In the autumn of 2025, […]

Ryan Bingham and The Texas Gentlemen “They Call Us The Lucky Ones”

July 3, 2026 0

Americana royalty teams up with a cracking Texas band to produce a varied and highly enjoyable mix of country, soul and stomp. Ryan Bingham is a comparatively rare example of an americana artist who has broken […]

Americana Stories – Simon Lamont “Americana”

July 3, 2026 2

Simon Lamont’s contribution to our americana stories is called Americana. And it covers one of our core topics, what is americana, and why isn’t it country? Simon Lamont is an Irish writer and designer (graphic/web/garden) who […]

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