Features
Small Venue Heroes: Albert Lee
Small venues are my favourite spaces to enjoy live music, and when you combine the intimacy and ease of access of such venues with the enjoyment of experiencing at close quarters a live performance by a […]
Articles by Martin Johnson
Interviews
Interview: Canadian Geneviève Racette on “Satellite” and being a bilingual artist
How the pandemic and personal changes ensured that difficult third album wasn’t. Canada has been the birthplace of some notable artists who have helped inform americana over the years, maintaining a musical identity that is separate […]
Interviews
Interview: Jeremy Ivey on “Invisible Pictures” and looking for the key to the lock
Mr Margo Price on how they maintain artist harmony and why he needs to make his own music. Margo Price is that rare Nashville artist who has the potential to break through to a large commercial […]
Interviews
Interview: Only Child Alan O’Hare on emotion, humanity and “Straight Lines”
How watching his Mum getting ready to go out dancing inspired the musical career of Only Child. It is a long time since the heyday of Merseybeat and the Beatles, but Liverpool still has a vibrant […]
Album Reviews
David James Allen “The Architect”
A ten-year meditation on Imposter Syndrome with the music of the last 60 years. ‘The Architect’ is 32-year-old Canadian David James Allen’s third album and is based around a ten-year-old idea of writing about the challenges […]