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Americana UK’s Halloween Horrors – casting a spell on you

October 29, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
My, my… aren’t you the persistent one? Come in, come in… I’m afraid we’re going to have to ask you to stand… the chairs are not quite what they should be today… Bad chair. No, no, […]
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Greazy Alice “Circles” – it all comes round again

October 29, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
A wild guess might identify Greazy Alice as a blues-rock band, maybe with a truckin’ vibe about them.  Couldn’t be more wrong – Greazy Alice is the recording moniker of New Orleans songwriter Alex Pianovich, and […]
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Americana UK’s Halloween Horrors – these are dark matters…

October 28, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Ah, brave reader, so you’ve returned to our little haunted nook?  Good.  Good.  Come in, come in, sit anywhere…No!  No, not there, that is not quite as it seems…hmm?  Oh, just humour us, we can’t really […]
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Julian Taylor “Don’t Let ‘Em (Get Inside Of Your Head)” – stay strong

October 28, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
It’s likely that you realise by now that we need precious little excuse to feature new music from Canada’s Julian Taylor, but if we were to have been looking for a persuader then the presence on […]
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Americana UK’s Halloween Horrors – ’tis the season of… the witch!

October 27, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Come in, come in – mind the cobwebs. Take a seat… NO! No, not there, that seat is…well, never mind, never mind. I expect you’re wondering what this is all about, we had hoped that the […]

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Around 4pm on 22nd May 2018 I was standing in line outside the London Stadium, waiting for the gates to open for a Rolling Stones show. The wait was made more tolerable by virtue of being […]
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Established Yorkshire songstress reinforces her reputation for excellence with fine mini-album. Any new single release ahead of a new album is always a teaser. After the video premiere of her new single The Losing Hand on […]
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Interview: Thomas Ådland, of Thomas & The Angry Hearts, on Language, Love and Identity

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Two days before I heard them fill Martin’s Bar in Lillestrøm, I watched Thomas & The Angry Hearts make music in a wooden house surrounded by trees. In that studio, sound was built patiently: a harmony […]
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Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Ríoghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

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How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]
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Interview: Cynthia Marchant on the Ozarks, fast cars and the passing of time

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In 2022, with her second studio album, Flesh and Bone, Cynthia Marchant explored spiritual truth and depth, and the magic of connecting with self and others in the many stages of life. Three years later, she’s […]

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