Paul Kerr

Interview: Talking the post pandemic festival blues with Brighthelmstone’s Jim Walker

August 22, 2022 Paul Kerr 0

Real post lockdown challenges being faced by Mid Sussex Music and Ale Festival. Back in August 2019 AUK spoke with Jim Walker, managing director of Brighton based Brighthelmstone Promotions, about his third annual Mid-Sussex Music and […]

Classic Clips: The Dreaming Spires “All Kinds Of People” BBC “Andrew Marr Show”.

August 12, 2022 Paul Kerr 0

There is a wealth of classic music clips available these days, allowing one to vicariously enjoy moments which stretch over the years since the advent of film. Never seen The Doors or Jefferson Airplane or The […]

John Calvin Abney “Tourist”

August 9, 2022 Paul Kerr 0

Recorded on the road, Tourist is an engaging, lush and poignant set of songs. Unlike most folk who were locked down at home during the pandemic, Tulsa musician John Calvin Abney, his San Francisco lease having […]

Live Review: Scotland sings Nanci Griffith @Perth Southern Fried Festival – Perth, 30th July 2022

August 9, 2022 Paul Kerr 0

It almost felt like the good old times. A storied concert in Perth’s spectacular concert hall, followed by a late night gig in the revamped Perth Theatre – Southern Fried was back. It wasn’t however the […]

Amanda Shires “Take It Like A Man”

July 26, 2022 Paul Kerr 0

A bold new direction for this acclaimed singer and fiddler might raise some eyebrows. If her 2018 release, To The Sunset’, found Amanda Shire moving away from the down-home roots of her previous albums, then ‘Take […]

Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories

July 28, 2026 0

“Radiate a smile if we’re only here for a short while / no we don’t want to miss a day / cus there’s so much we must do,” sings David Keenan on Radiate a Smile, four […]

The Mike Jacoby Electric Trio “Welcome to the Family”

July 28, 2026 0

The new release by The Mike Jacoby Electric Trio arrives with lively words of welcome. After three solo releases of his own, in 2019 Mike Jacoby teamed up with Don Read and Mike Levin to form […]

More People Really Should Know About: Hayden

July 28, 2026 0

When we say more people should know about Hayden, I’m not talking about the beloved 18th-century composer and founder of Viennese Classicism, but about Paul Hayden Desser, the Canadian singer-songwriter who has been quietly ploughing his […]

Articles by Paul Kerr

Interview: Talking the post pandemic festival blues with Brighthelmstone’s Jim Walker

Classic Clips: The Dreaming Spires “All Kinds Of People” BBC “Andrew Marr Show”.

John Calvin Abney “Tourist”

Live Review: Scotland sings Nanci Griffith @Perth Southern Fried Festival – Perth, 30th July 2022

Amanda Shires “Take It Like A Man”

Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories

The Mike Jacoby Electric Trio “Welcome to the Family”

More People Really Should Know About: Hayden

Various Artists “Just Look Inside the Cover – Songs of Pete Ham”

Willie J Healey to release new EP before October tour dates