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Live Review: The 7 Hills Songwriters Festival, Assembly Rooms Bath, 16th March 2024

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The Assembly Rooms in Bath were the heart of fashionable society in 18th Century Bath. The Octagon Room, home to the main event today, gets a mention in Jane Austen and Charles Dickens and is one […]
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Live Review: Christina Martin, Green Note, London, 7th March 2024

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The Green Note is a purveyor of fine music from many of the genres with their origins in the 20th century –  and Christina Martin’s songs weave through several of them. Some of the songs on […]
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Live Review: John Alexander Album Launch. The Glad Café, Glasgow – 8th March 2024

March 15, 2024 Paul Kerr 0
Although it’s been available on streaming platforms for a while, tonight was the official launch of John Alexander’s new album, ‘Face The Wind’, a disc which finds this Scottish artist knee deep in the big muddy […]
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Live Review: The ARC Songwriters, featuring Kate Ellis, My Girl The River and Anna Howie, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 2nd March 2024

March 12, 2024 Graeme Tait 2
It may well have been the first Saturday in March, and the start of a new metrological season but the weather was anything but springlike as the bravest and most passionate of music lovers made their […]
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Live Review: Beans on Toast, Stereo, Glasgow – 22nd February 2024

March 11, 2024 KC Vines 0
Difficult. When you have a 15 year back catalogue and the same number of albums, chock full of smart protest songs, many of which are crowd favourites; not to look back at your younger self and […]

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David Jarman’s recent visit to Woodstock in his AUK ‘For The Sake Of The Song’ feature may well have whetted the appetite of Joni Mitchell fans (here), of which I have been one for over half […]
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Diana Darby “Otterson”

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Songs of love and hate with a layer of ghostly eeriness. When the Eagles reunited to stage their Hell Freezes Over TV special, Don Henley famously said that “For the record, we never broke up, we […]
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Video: The Attention Seekers “It Doesn’t Happen Every Day”

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The Attention Seekers from Newcastle don’t have a band name which does them justice given we are very happy to seek their attention! And they have a new song out now about which songwriter Alan Fish […]

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Interview: Beau Jennings – In Tribute to Will Rogers and the Verdigris

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If History was your favourite class in school, raise your digital hand. Only two? Come on, the subject is not that dull. Now pay attention. Today, we are going to learn about a river called the […]
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Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

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Chicago-born and LA-based singer-songwriter Truman Sinclair will be a new name to many AUK readers, although the more observant of you will have noticed his song Joel Roberts topped my top tracks of 2025 list published […]
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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

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There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]

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Video: Jessica Rhaye “Song In Me”

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The beautifully pure voice of Canadian singer-songwriter Jessica Rhaye is displayed to excellent effect here on the title track from her just-released new album.
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Video Premiere: Trent Miller “How Soon Is Never”

March 12, 2018 0
Thsi is the new single from Trent Miller and it’s rather lovely, with echoes of While My Guitar Gently Weeps.  It’s out on Friday 16 March and taken from his new album Time Between Us, out […]
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Simon Joyner “Pocket Moon” (BB*Island, 2019)

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It’s always a surprise to come across someone for the first time who’s actually been making music for ages – in Simon Joyner’s case 17 years and as many albums, not so much because it’s new […]

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