Columns
Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 58
Half term and festival time. I have dragged my sorry arse to the end of the week and cannot communicate how grateful I am for half term. This term has been full of all the usual […]
Chuck Prophet
Features
Small Venue Heroes – Chuck Prophet
Chuck Prophet has been a regular feature of the live scene in the UK for over 30 years and although I have seen him several times, each of those time is joyous celebration of the uplifting […]
Live Reviews
Festival Review: South By South West Festival – Austin, Texas 15th–18th March, 2022
After reviewing the streamed version of SXSW for AUK last year, our roving reporter Oliver Gray returns to Austin to get up close and personal. The trauma of sorting out all the paperwork leading up to […]
Columns
Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 44
A glimpse of times to come. Phew, January’s a bastard. It’s cold, dark, hungover from December’s increasingly desperate joyousness and in the case of school, full of people shuffling from class to class coughing, wheezing and […]
News
Jason Isbell, Kris Kristofferson among the names releasing vinyl this Record Store Day
This November sees the return of the “Black Friday” Record Store Day and this year the list of releases has something to delight any Americana fan. Among the vinyl being released are some rare live recordings, […]