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Sounds from beyond the Shed 147 – “Trade Descriptions”
Mrs H and myself went to a gig last week. It was a night out to celebrate her recent achievements and me reaching a certain age. It took place at the Royal Theatre in Northampton, a […]
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AUK Shortcuts : Rachel Sumner, Chris Castle, Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards, Palomino Kings, Memorial and The Texas Trio
Our latest Short Cuts, a monthly feature where AUK casts a brief eye and ear on several albums we’ve received recently which just didn’t make the cut for a full review. Like most major music websites […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed 146 – “Back in the Jug Again”
The original premise of these articles was to illustrate my career in teaching whilst enduring lockdown and as the articles progressed it unfurled its brief to encompass all manner of moans, observations, nitpicking and flights of […]
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Folk Roundup – Anne Briggs, Amelia Coburn, Nate Sabat, Will Page, Martin Simpson, Niamh Bury
The latest edition of our roundup of Folk album mini-reviews veers away from the “fiddles with everything” of the last batch of reviews and heads very definitely into the “mixed bag of folk” direction with perhaps […]
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Clint West’s American Plus: Listening to Non-Americana Music
The controllers at Social Music Radio give me pretty much free rein to decide what goes into my show from a musical point of view. So, not wanting to be too shackled by the americana label, […]