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Live Review: Dean Owens & The Southerners – Green Note, London, 1st September 2021

September 8, 2021 Lyndon Bolton 0

Dean Owens is not given to exaggeration, so if opening a show with “We’re here, it’s a miracle,” might have raised a few eyebrows pre-pandemic, tonight he was bang on the button. For his first show […]

Festival Review: Red Rooster Festival, Euston Hall, Suffolk, 27th-29th August 2021

September 3, 2021 Oliver Gray 0

Our roving reporter, Oliver Gray, gets back into the field as music opens up. After a six-hour in-depth review of the M25, we arrived to the strains of Iraina Mancini, with a surprising and reassuringly old-fashioned […]

Live review: John Jenkins – The Bell, Bath, 23rd August 2021

September 1, 2021 Tim Martin 1

The Bell in Walcot Street has been one of the key venues in Bath for more than 40 years. It restarted live music in July and tonight it hosted John Jenkins, on tour to promote his […]

Live review: Lady Nade, St Georges, Bristol -19th June 2021

June 28, 2021 Tim Martin 0

For what was our first live show in 18 months, the Café/Bar at St Georges, a former Georgian church in central Bristol, was a great setting. This was the last of four sold-out shows celebrating the […]

Dean Owens, Soundhouse Spotlight Sessions at The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 19th April 2021

April 29, 2021 Paul Kerr 0

As the possibility of live gigs returning gets tantalisingly closer, reviewers here at AUK are still stuck on the couch watching live streams beamed in from all over. Tonight’s entertainment came from Edinburgh, from The Traverse […]

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Track Premiere: Candace Hastings “Horses I Left Behind”

April 21, 2026 0

Candace Hastings is long steeped in songwriting. Her first came when she was in fifth grade; it had just one chord and was written on the three-quarter-size Kay guitar that her mother bought for her the […]

Artwork for Fayen album Something To Look Back On

Fayen “Something To Look Back On”

April 21, 2026 0

Norwegian duo delivers a nordicana record filled with beautiful songs, expertly performed and arranged. Fayen is a Norwegian duo based in Trondheim, situated in central Norway, on the south shore of the third-largest of Norway’s fjords, Trondheimsfjorden […]

For the Sake of the Song: Steve Young “Rock, Salt & Nails”

April 21, 2026 0

Before embarking on this feature, to avoid duplication, I conducted a search on ‘Steve Young’, on the AUK website and was surprised to find there are precious few recent pieces devoted to someone who was surely […]

Live Review: Dean Owens & The Southerners – Green Note, London, 1st September 2021

Festival Review: Red Rooster Festival, Euston Hall, Suffolk, 27th-29th August 2021

Live review: John Jenkins – The Bell, Bath, 23rd August 2021

Live review: Lady Nade, St Georges, Bristol -19th June 2021

Dean Owens, Soundhouse Spotlight Sessions at The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 19th April 2021

Track Premiere: Candace Hastings “Horses I Left Behind”

Fayen “Something To Look Back On”

For the Sake of the Song: Steve Young “Rock, Salt & Nails”

Chip Taylor “Words From Holy Gardens”

Jesse Malin “Hollywood Forever” – tribute to a friend