On this new song from Aoife O’Donovan – featuring additional vocals from Anaïs Mitchell – the message couldn’t really be starker: “America’s bleeding / We’re watching her die / Fire and blood on the screens.” It […]
A journey to hell can be surprisingly uplifting and still relevant to today’s challenges. I doubt Anaïs Mitchell had any inkling when she started to write her folk opera ‘Hadestown’ in 2006 that it would become […]
It is a truism that great musicals need great songs, and with 8 Tony Awards including ‘Best Musical’ and a Grammy Award for ‘Best Musical Theatre Album’ Hadestown has returned to the London stage with the finest […]
How business should be. Preparing and delivering a radio/Mixcloud show that operates under the banner of association with this esteemed website takes some organisation, thought and the occasional biting of tongue when faced with some of […]
Well that’s it from us for another week. We are human here at AUK, or 95% of us are anyway, and accordingly we will occasionally miss something epic, a case in question being this track from […]
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