Bill Fay

For the Sake of the Song: Bill Fay “Filled With Wonder Once Again”

July 7, 2025 John Lee 0

Some voices arrive like a hand on your shoulder. Bill Fay’s is one of them. “I had near/forgotten everything”, Fay sings, opening the song not with a confession, but with a kind of quiet exhale. ‘Filled […]

Classic Clips: Bill Fay “The Never Ending Happening” – Later… With Jools Holland, 2012

June 13, 2025 Stephen Rostkoski 0

When I first heard about English singer-songwriter Bill Fay, it was thought he was dead. A 1999 Mojo article speculated that Fay’s total disappearance after his two early 1970s albums was due to his descent into drug addiction, […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 177 “Bill Fay”

March 21, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

I was moved by Bill Fay‘s passing last month. Here was a singer-songwriter who defined the term cult artist and whose work had flowered in the minds of many who populate these pages. I came to […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 110

September 1, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0

Live music is the tonic we all need. Following my thoughts on post-pandemic life and the Edinburgh Festival last week, I attended what was possibly the most life-affirming gig I have been to in a long, […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 46

February 15, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 0

A moment’s reflection. Every week this column spews forth a mixture of outrage, exasperation, ridicule and disbelief pertaining to all aspects of modern education during these current times but I may have missed a very important […]

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