AUK’s Keith Hargreaves’s weekly education column, with the help of some good, bad and ugly americana
So we’ve been away, three weeks, how brilliant. And how was it? Well… I should say straight off the bat that being able to swan off in a van for three weeks is an enormous privilege. […]
Writing about Americana, editing the news for this lovely site, creating content for a radio station that ostensibly plays Americana, creating my own radio shows for another station, going to gigs, I spend pretty much every […]
I was in Nottingham two weeks ago to see Gary Louris, Birmingham last week for the cricket on both occasions I wandered through the city centres loving my ‘visits’ to the city from my rural home […]
Went to the Test match last week in Birmingham. Had a brilliant time, however, my travelling companion had decided that it would be an ‘interesting’ experience if we joined the ranks of the Barmy Army in […]
Way back when in 2003 I saw the Jayhawks play Dingwalls in Camden. ‘Rainy Day Music’ had just come out and this was my first chance to see them. And what a gig, tiny venue, sweaty […]
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