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Red Rooster Festival, Euston Hall, Suffolk, 1-3 June 2017

July 20, 2017 Rudie Hayes 0

Suffolk is such a green place when you live in treeless Yorkshire, every time I stray there I feel the inner workings of my soul refreshed. Normally I wander that way once a year for Maverick, […]

Annie Keating + Christina Martin, York Basement, York, 25th June 2017

July 19, 2017 Rudie Hayes 0

The debut York performance of Canada’s Christina Martin, tonight with Producer/Husband Dale Murray on guitar, has been a long time coming, but it’s worth the wait. Tonight she’s the support, later in the tour with her […]

Roxanne de Bastion, York City Screen Basement Bar, York, 4th May 2017

July 18, 2017 Rudie Hayes 0

Support for this show is from ‘Fawn UK’, part, it would appear, of York’s hip crowd. Her teenage vigour makes me feel old; reading lyrics from an iphone for a new song rather than a fag […]

Mercury Rev, The Barbican, London, 14th July 2017

July 17, 2017 Jonathan Aird 2

Mecury Rev have a sound that is often described as symphonic, so this appearance at The Barbican with the Royal Northern Sinfonia offers a real chance to hear the huge sounds of their albums as they […]

The Whybirds, The Portland Arms, Cambridge, 7th July 2017

July 14, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0

Well – after three studio albums, a live album, EPs, singles and many gigs – that’s it for the Whybirds. Having an announced an indefinite hiatus the Americana band are currently undertaking their last few live […]

Fruition “Something More”

September 10, 2026 0

Dense harmonies and insightful words make this a “why haven’t I heard them before” album. Fruition say that “this album is the culmination of almost two decades of making music. We set out to show the […]

Americana Stories – John Jenkins “Just One of Those Nights”

September 10, 2026 0

Liverpool singer-songwriter John Jenkins and is one of our “most compelling voices in folk, Americana, and country,” as his press accurately describes him. Having seen him play live with his regular musical partner, Pippa Murdie, in […]

David Coller “Blue Water”

September 10, 2026 0

Stunning traditional songwriting on instant folk classic. This is the second full-length release by singer-songwriter David Coller this year. His first, When Summer Comes, was given a glowing write-up in these pages, and now comes Blue […]