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Sounds from the Shed

AUK’s Keith Hargreaves’s weekly education column, with the help of some good, bad and ugly americana

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Sounds from beyond the Shed – week 16

May 5, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 1
Some great days but also some shit… literally. Working in education can be a hard slog as many parents discovered with homeschooling but in the grand scheme of things most of us have to work hard […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – week 15

April 28, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 0
Sat in a pub garden literally drinking it all in On the Monday when pubs were allowed to reopen it just so happened that I was on a road trip. Not content with having a shed […]
Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed – week 15

April 21, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 3
The postman delivered something smashing this week. As a committed music lover I have over the year experimented with all sorts of formats but have continually found myself drawn back to the vinyl LP. My ears […]
Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed – week 14

April 14, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 3
The festivals are all jostling for space at the end of August and beginning of September. Your correspondent filled with optimism and a sense of possibilities finds himself attending two festivals in consecutive weeks if all […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – week 13

April 7, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 0
So winter returned with a vengeance this week. Flippin’ snow in April ffs! Not much, in fact more a sleety impersonation of snow as done by a pretty poor impressionist, perhaps the Harry Hill of the […]

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Preview: James Taylor returns to the UK

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July 15, 2026 3

Whiskey Treaty Roadshow “Kept Rising”

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Live Review: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, British Airways ARC, London – 8th July 2026

Live Reviews
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Cover art for Max Subar album "Anything Could Be"

Max Subar “Anything Could Be”

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July 15, 2026 2

Park Hills Circle “All Of A Sudden” – seasons change

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Previews

Preview: James Taylor returns to the UK

July 15, 2026 3
Correction: The original version of this story described James Taylor as arriving in the UK next week, when as one of our readers has pointed out in the comments, he’s already played Scotland and is in […]
Album Reviews

Whiskey Treaty Roadshow “Kept Rising”

July 15, 2026 0
Whiskey Treaty Roadshow proves that Democracy is strongest when it is diverse. It’s hard to pin down Whiskey Treaty Roadshow. They are all over the map, stylistically, and as a collective. Over the course of more […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, British Airways ARC, London – 8th July 2026

July 15, 2026 0
And it’s off to another new venue in London, prestigiously located at Olympia in one of those surprisingly hard to get to parts of London.  Few are the venues that feel the need to post outlying […]

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  • Live Review: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, British Airways ARC, London – 8th July 2026
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  • Park Hills Circle “All Of A Sudden” – seasons change
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Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0
Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]
Interviews

Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations

July 7, 2026 1
Like the old sailors of yore, Hank Alrich sure knows how to spin a yarn, though I doubt his are made up or heavily stretched. They keep your attention. I would contentedly sit in an armchair […]
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Interview: Dietmar Leibecke on the ethos of Germany’s Static Roots Music Festival

July 6, 2026 3
Americana UK’s Rick Bayles’ monthly column, Vox Continental, shines a light on what is happening on the americana front in Europe. In his most recent column, Rick gave the nod to the Static Roots Festival, which […]

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The Milk Carton Kids with Josh Ritter “Losing Battles”

March 6, 2020 0
We leave you this week dear reader with a song that actually came out a few months ago but has been re-released today in an acoustic format on Spotify, and since Spotify is uber-irritating to embed […]
Videos

Video: Gregory Pepper & His Problems “Maybe I’ll See You”

March 20, 2020 0
This animated video is populated by characters from horror movies, singing along to Pepper’s gentle new single, ‘Maybe I’ll See You’.  Pepper worked with illustrator David Partridge to create these, “…retired monsters living life after the […]
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Something for the weekend: Josh Ritter “Time is Wasting”

August 21, 2020 0
We leave you on this windy Friday dear reader with news that Josh Ritter has announced the mini-album ‘See Here, I Have Built You a Mansion’, a collection of 8 rare or unreleased songs and performances […]

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