Danny George Wilson

Sounds from beyond the Shed 219 “Nothing to see here”

February 2, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0

I said in last week’s column that I was attending the AUK Writers weekend in Buxton this last weekend. I also said that what happens in Buxton generally stays in Buxton. And therefore, I must report […]

Danny George Wilson returns on champion form without the Champs

January 22, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0

Danny George Wilson will release his new album “Arcade” on 20th March via Loose Music, and ‘Distant Seasons’, the first single to be taken from the album, is available now. Of the single, Danny reflects, “It’s […]

Live Review: Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk – 4th-6th July 2025

July 31, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0

Maverick, Maverick, so good we’ve reviewed it twice. While our accredited reporter, Andrew Frolish, has turned in his extensive review of the latest Maverick Festival, another AUK writer, John Lee, was also there and has kindly […]

Interview: Danny George Wilson on “You Are Not A Stranger Here”

December 17, 2024 Martin Johnson 2

Why providing space for the musicians is key to creating big music. Some musicians who are approaching the 30th anniversary of their first record’s release may be tempted to take their foot off the pedal a […]

Live Review: Septembersong, Braziers Park, South Oxfordshire – 17th September 2023

September 22, 2023 Darren Lumbroso 0

lt’s mid September but the trees are yet to exhibit their autumnal hues as I pedal through the South Oxfordshire countryside to Braziers Park, for the final day of the Septembersong festival. It doesn’t feel like […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Classic Americana Albums

Classic Americana Albums: The Roches “The Roches”

June 14, 2023 3

I don’t know when I first heard The Roches but I do know it was love at first hearing and I’ve loved them ever since. I’ve always had a thing about female sibling harmonies – my […]

Videos

Video: Shannon LaBrie “Firewalker”

July 20, 2020 0

Lovely harmonies and the powerful vocals of Shannon LaBrie are the highlight of this rhythmic new single, which was co-written with Tia Sillers and Joe Robinson. All three had recently been through defining moments in their […]

Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed 206 “The Edge of the World”

October 31, 2025 0

So, as previewed last week, I spent the weekend at Boia in St Davids (no apostrophe, Oliver) and what a joyful and immensely satisfying thing it was. Lots and lots of music in small venues performed […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 219 “Nothing to see here”

Danny George Wilson returns on champion form without the Champs

Live Review: Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk – 4th-6th July 2025

Interview: Danny George Wilson on “You Are Not A Stranger Here”

Live Review: Septembersong, Braziers Park, South Oxfordshire – 17th September 2023

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”