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Live Review: Courtney Marie Andrews + Charlie Jonas Walter, St Mary’s Church – Twyford, Hampshire – 23rd October 2025

October 29, 2025 NickBarber 0

It’s been two long years since Courtney Marie Andrews graced these shores, so it was perhaps unsurprising that her autumn 2025 run of smaller, but characterful venues sold out in short time. The first date of […]

Micah P. Hinson “The Tomorrow Man”

October 28, 2025 NickBarber 3

Alt-folk troubadour delves into orchestral territory to find balance in a darkening world. The adjective “Waits-ian” (with reference to Tom Waits) is one that is often applied to performers who gruffly operate outside of the musical […]

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Live Review: Rod Picott, St Lawrence’s Church Biddulph – 22nd October 2025

October 28, 2025 NickBarber 1

Biddulph is a former mining town on the Staffordshire/Cheshire border and St Lawrence’s Church has a history steeped in folklore – Templar Knights, the English civil war and Viking destruction – and Victorian secret societies – […]

Live Review: My Darling Clementine, The Stoller Hall, Manchester – 23rd November 2023

November 30, 2023 NickBarber 0

The Stoller Hall isn’t the sort of venue where you’d normally expect to see the likes of My Darling Clementine. Part of the famed Chetham’s Music School, it’s a custom-built room that’s spare and somewhat brutal […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers

August 5, 2026 0

Includes tracks from My Morning Jacket, Lucinda Williams and MJ Lenderman among others. Cinema Music Group, Killphonic Records, and City Slang have announced Heart of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young, Vol. 2 – Out of […]

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