Tim Martin

The Gordon Sharpe Americana Book Award 2023

February 28, 2024 Tim Martin 4

In May 2022 we lost one of our own. Gordon Sharpe’s pieces for AUK were always a pleasure to read. Having met at our get together in Clitheroe in 2020, we exchanged messages about the music, […]

The future of live music is in our hands

January 31, 2024 Tim Martin 0

The BBC ran an item on their website last week: “Grassroots live music venues suffer ‘most challenging year’, report says.” The BBC loves a negative news story, and there’s no getting away from the fact that venues […]

Taxing times for music…

January 30, 2024 Tim Martin 2

Taxation of music is inevitable; it is a business after all and Government will always want their share of the pie, however small that pie is. But when taxation in one form or another impacts a […]

Paperback Riders – Will Birch “No Sleep Till Canvey Island: The Great Pub Rock Revolution”

January 29, 2024 Tim Martin 3

Pub Rock sat in that middle ground between the more excessive bits of 70s rock, and the nuclear year zero of Punk. What it also did was open the door to music based on early R&B […]

Things I Love Which Are Not Americana: Tim Martin – Archaeology

January 24, 2024 Tim Martin 0

In 1972 Tutankhamun went on tour. While at age 8 I didn’t make it to the British Museum to see him, images of the famous gold funerary mask looked back at you from newspapers, and TV. […]