Album Reviews
Rich Krueger “NOWThen” (Rockin’K Music, 2018)
Rich Krueger sets out his stall from the start: “My body of songs are coming from two different periods in my life: ‘Then’ is from 1985 to 1988, ‘NOW’ is almost a 20-year gap later when […]
Reviews
Live Reviews
The Decemberists, Hammersmith Odeon, London, 7th November 2018
Under a backdrop dominated by a giant mad-eyed grinning skull The Decemberists returned to the UK, still a little jet-lagged despite landing four days earlier, but determined anyway, to do their very best. This tour has the […]
Album Reviews
Neighborhood of Make Believe “Two Nighttimes” (Five Kill Records, 2018)
In this era of online overkill, it is refreshing to encounter a band that has seemingly no real internet presence. Certainly, a number of abortive Google searches have unearthed no biographical information about Neighbourhood of Make […]
Album Reviews
Freya Ward “By The Sea” EP (Independent, 2018)
‘By The Sea’ is a lovely record. “It’d last for a lifetime if you would just let it in,” sings Devonshire songwriter Freya Ward and all sounds right in the world. It’s the title track’s beguiling […]
Live Reviews
Juanita Stein, Iambic Bar, London, 23rd November 2018
The Iambic Bar is a new “space” at the Courtyard Theatre in Hackney, consisting of a basement bar and an adjacent performance space. When the doors open there are, at first, just a handful of […]