Ags Connolly

Live Preview: Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk – 30th June – 2nd July 2023

May 16, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

If you love country and Americana, then at Maverick you’ll feel like your music has come home. These days we are blessed with a number of great festivals but there is something particularly special about the […]

Live Review – Morton Valence + Ags Connolly, MOTH Club, Hackney, London, 15th October 2022

October 24, 2022 Peter Feldon 1

Album launch, iconic pedal steel, top class support act. An exciting night was in prospect. But I nearly walked past the venue because I didn’t see the sign, however, the security staff are obviously used to […]

Interview: Talking the post pandemic festival blues with Brighthelmstone’s Jim Walker

August 22, 2022 Paul Kerr 0

Real post lockdown challenges being faced by Mid Sussex Music and Ale Festival. Back in August 2019 AUK spoke with Jim Walker, managing director of Brighton based Brighthelmstone Promotions, about his third annual Mid-Sussex Music and […]

Interview: Cow Pie, a record label for UK country in 2020

October 13, 2020 Martin Johnson 0

If anyone has ever had the temerity to question the UK in Americana UK then this interview with Patrick Hart, chief cook and bottle washer and owner of Cow Pie Records will put that question to […]

Video Premiere: Ags Connolly “Indian Sign”

July 31, 2020 Andrew Frolish 1

Our final video of the week is the premiere of the gorgeous ‘Indian Sign’ from Ags Connolly. His voice is beautifully resonant and melodic on this acoustic recording. ‘Indian Sign’ is from ‘Wrong Again’, Connolly’s acclaimed […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers