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Ernst Aines and Camille Trail announce UK and Ireland summer tour dates

July 4, 2024 Richard Parkinson 1
Australian acts, Ernest Aines and Camille Trail have announced a series of dates in the UK and Ireland over the summer Aines is an award-winning Australian singer-songwriter and Australian Folk Artist of the Year Award 2023 […]
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The UK general election 2024: A plague on both your houses

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There’s an account I follow on Twitter by a guy called Michael Walsh who every time Keir Starmer goes back on one of his promises posts a clip of Cilla Black doing her “surprise surprise” routine. […]
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A Different Thread embarks on extensive ‘Patchwork’ UK tour

July 3, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
A Different Thread, the dynamic transatlantic band, fronted by Robert Jackson from Lichfield, UK and Alicia Best from Durham, North Carolina, has announced dates across the UK with their ‘Patchwork’ tour which runs from the beginning […]
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Hattie Whitehead announces long awaited debut album “Bloom” and releases single ‘Valentine’ – Lovely stuff!

July 3, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0
Rising UK singer-songwriter Hattie Whitehead has announced details of her debut album “Bloom” which is due out 4th October, and in advance of that has shared the album teaser ‘Valentine’. Watch it below. Whitehead has previously […]
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Preview: Steve Earle to release new live album “Alone Again (Live)”

July 2, 2024 Richard Parkinson 2
Last summer Steve Earle brought his solo acoustic Alone Again tour to the UK including a great evening at the Barbican in London.  The set list that night ran to 23 songs starting with his cover […]

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At age 82, Charlie Musselwhite continues to put out relevant and meaningful albums. Sweet. While his body of work may not conjure memories for some of our younger readers, it’s great to see him continuing his […]
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When his third album, ‘Trouble In Mind’ was released in 2008, Hayes Carll was an up and coming yet still relatively unknown alt-country singer-songwriter, who had built up a small, but dedicated, group of fans through […]
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