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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 101

June 23, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 3
Your listening treat is here! Some lovely feedback about last week’s show on CRMK (Tuesdays 7-9pm) and the Mixcloud linked below. Many thanks. Some of you had issues with the playback on the link returning to […]
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View from Across La Manche#15 – From Our Own Correspondent

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The time has come, the correspondent said, to talk of many things, Of Kings and cops and long road hops, while Americana sings… (with heartfelt apologies to Lewis Carroll) I was originally going to write at […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 99

June 7, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0
Refreshed by a festival. Ready for the final push. So back to school with A levels and GCSE’s in full swing and the gallop towards the final furlong begins. Leavers events, mountains of reports, exam panics, […]
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AUK Shortcuts May 2023: Jenny Don’t & The Spurs, The Confusionaires, Little Misty, Badhands, Shawn Williams, Dan Whitehouse, David Edward Booth, and The Train Wreck Endings

May 31, 2023 Paul Kerr 1
Our latest Short Cuts, an occasional 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 – Week 98

May 24, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0
Always have a plan. I am forever telling my daughters and the students in school that if you have nothing else… have a plan. Be it simply how to get out of meeting someone you don’t […]

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