I first saw Billy Bragg play live on 30 December 1984 at the Lyceum Ballroom in the Strand in London. I used to be able to recall all the times I’d seen him perform but I […]
Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer lived with his aunt and half-brother on the wrong side of Civil War Missouri. He loved skipping school to go fishing and cavort in the local swimming hole. He was a prankster […]
Silver Teeth are newborns according to its two principals, StevieRay Latham and Josh Flowers. “We both live in South London now,” Latham said, “but Josh is originally from Leeds and I grew up in the South […]
The original premise of this feature was to allow AUK writers to celebrate a favourite song and explain why they so favoured it. Fair enough, but in these blighted times it can seem shallow or even […]
So-called ‘supergroups’ in this genre aren’t a new thing. Think the Pistol Annies, or I’m with Her. Only this year, Mary Chapin Carpenter joined forces with Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart for the excellent “Looking For […]
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