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Something for the weekend: Loudon Wainwright III “Just Like Buster Keaton”

May 12, 2023 Mark Whitfield 2

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader, and here at AUK Towers in Liverpool we are already covered in glitter and Lambrini in preparation for tomorrow’s Eurovision antics. I did try to find […]

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Something for the long weekend: Billy Bragg “Take Down the Union Jack”

May 5, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

“Take down the Union Jack It clashes with the sunset And put it in the attic with the emperor’s old clothes When did it fall apart? Sometime in the eighties When the great and the good […]

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Michaela Anne heads to the UK for dates

May 5, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

Win a pair of tickets to see her by becoming an AUK supporter! Nashville-based singer-songwriter Michaela Anne, who in our opinion recorded one of the tuuuuunes of last year, has just announced some UK dates which […]

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Something for the long weekend: Great Lake Swimmers “Swimming Like Flying”

April 28, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

Neglect dear reader comes in all kinds of different forms but the cruelest kind for AUK readers is when the PR for a great band entirely relevant to our audience don’t send us their new album […]

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Something Australian for the weekend: Paul Kelly “Alone With You”

April 14, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

Greetings AUKers from down under where I’ve been for the last two weeks in preparation for the other half of my existence, and being here felt like an opportune moment to share a new recording by […]

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Interview: Mean Mary answers six of one and half a dozen of the other

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The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It’s not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with the […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

February 17, 2026 0

Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

February 12, 2026 2

If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Four-piece band Güero have released the first single from their forthcoming album.  ‘Scribe’ sweeps along on currents of pulsing drums from Mike Ruiz and Russell Volksen’s grooving bass.  Over these forceful rhythms, Shea Ritche’s keys are […]

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Track Premiere: Diane Hubka “Shady Grove”

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If we were at all inclined to occasionally make comments that are tongue-in-cheek then we might suggest that Diane Hubka is an artist who made good in the end.  And for the right reasons. It’s a […]

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

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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?” […]

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