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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 72

November 18, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 0
Live music is a life-enhancing thing A brilliant weekend followed a fairly typical one in school (i.e. pastoral issues aplenty, mock exam panic for Yr11s and assemblies on bullying and remembrance). And why was the weekend […]
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AUK Short Cuts – November 2022

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Welcome to our second Short Cuts 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 71

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Forgive me please … Half terms come and go at speed but this one has been a memorable one for many things. Walks with friends, recording a Mixcast broadcast and driving a battlefields tour to Ypres […]
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Dear Dr. Cleetus … my husband’s bluegrass obsession has entered the bedroom!

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Every month Dr Cleetus Hose, renowned relationship and sexual health guru shares his advice for Americana UK subscribers. Dear Dr Cleetus, My husband and I have been happily married for several years now but recently his […]
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The View From Across La Manche #9 – From our own correspondent

October 27, 2022 Rick Bayles 0
We’re going to start this month’s column with an apology. Not for us the way of the tabloids, to bury apologies in some long dusty corner, we screw up, we’re front and centre about it! Friends […]

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For Hal Cannon, life should be very simple – love the place you live, love the ones you know, if you’re needy, why not give, then see if you’re still low. Words to live by, extracted […]
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Interview: Adam Levy on the Honeydogs celebrated return

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Experiencing a rebirth with Algebra for Broken Hearts, the St. Paul, Minnesota band’s twelfth album on Julian Records (2025), is crucial language, one voicing an undersung American existence. Like the novel, I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif […]
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Interview: Mean Mary answers six of one and half a dozen of the other

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