Sophie Wenban

Petunia live at the Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham - 24th September 2026

Live Review: Petunia (solo without The Vipers), The Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham – 24th September 2026

October 1, 2026 Sophie Wenban 0

The Kitchen Garden Café in King’s Heath, Birmingham, makes you glad people still believe in putting good music in small rooms. Attached to a restaurant and garden centre by day, it becomes an intimate music venue […]

The Truffle Boys live at the Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham - 21st July 2026

Live Review: The Truffle Valley Boys, The Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham – 21st July 2026

July 30, 2026 Sophie Wenban 0

There is a particular kind of pleasure in listening to crackly vinyl, hearing the ghosts of bluegrass and honky-tonk pioneers through layers of hiss and surface noise. But those records can sometimes leave you wondering what […]

Brennan Leigh, live at St. Mary's Creative Space, Chester - 32d July 2026

Live Review: Brennen Leigh + Jackson Ward, St. Mary’s Creative Space, Chester – 3rd July 2026

July 20, 2026 Sophie Wenban 0

There was an appealing symmetry to this double bill at St Mary’s Creative Space. Brennen Leigh has spent the last decade demonstrating that traditional country music can remain a living form rather than a museum exhibit, […]

Live Review: Eric Bibb + Janileigh Cohen, St. Leonard’s Church, Bridgnorth – 25th March 2026

April 30, 2026 Sophie Wenban 0

You probably wouldn’t immediately think of St. Leonard’s Church in Bridgnorth as a likely venue if someone were to mention a roof-raising indie-folk and blues double bill. Yet on a storm-lashed March evening, the old sandstone […]

Live Review: Beans On Toast + Ruth Lyon + Bassie Gracie, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham – 11th March 2026

March 24, 2026 Sophie Wenban 0

The night opened with Bassie Gracie, a bold spoken word poet grounded in hope, proclaiming that making art can be the remedy to worry. This Celtic-and-proud waif delivered rhythmic anti-racism with barely veiled anger at the […]

For The Sake of The Song: Steve Forbert “Ebenezer’s Back In Town”

October 5, 2026 0

Steve Forbert arrived on the music scene in 1978 fully formed and alive with youthful energy and attitude. Fast forward nearly fifty years and he continues to make music that is consistently relevant and enjoyable. Touted […]

This is Lorelei “The Singer in My Band”

October 5, 2026 0

Deeply human songs with indie sensibilities and shades of bluegrass. This is Lorelei is the moniker used by singer-songwriter Nate Amos. He’s also in the experimental, indie pop band Water from Your Eyes, where he plays […]

Anniversary Cheers: Levellers “Levelling The Land” celebrates 35 years

October 5, 2026 0

Warner Music UK/Rhino release a 35th-Anniversary version of the classic sophomore album from the Levellers. Originally released in 1991 with that iconic opening “There’s only one way of life / And that’s your own”, the Levellers […]

Articles by Sophie Wenban

Live Review: Petunia (solo without The Vipers), The Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham – 24th September 2026

Live Review: The Truffle Valley Boys, The Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham – 21st July 2026

Live Review: Brennen Leigh + Jackson Ward, St. Mary’s Creative Space, Chester – 3rd July 2026

Live Review: Eric Bibb + Janileigh Cohen, St. Leonard’s Church, Bridgnorth – 25th March 2026

Live Review: Beans On Toast + Ruth Lyon + Bassie Gracie, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham – 11th March 2026

For The Sake of The Song: Steve Forbert “Ebenezer’s Back In Town”

This is Lorelei “The Singer in My Band”

Anniversary Cheers: Levellers “Levelling The Land” celebrates 35 years

Dom Flemons to release new album using Smithsonian’s collection of musical instruments

Laura Cortese “Lucky Water”