Demi Marriner

Demi Marriner at Brudenell Social Club, Leeds on 1st December 2024

More People Really Should Know About: Demi Marriner

March 17, 2026 Peter Thompson 2

The title of this piece is “More People Really Should Know About“, but I’d wager that more people have come across Demi Marriner and her work than realise, so perhaps the piece should be entitled More […]

For the Sake of the Song: David Ford “Cheer Up (You Miserable F*ck)”

December 1, 2025 John Lee 1

It has been twenty years since the release of “I Sincerely Apologise for All the Trouble I Have Caused”, an album that, according to David Ford, in his wryly entertaining autobiography I Choose This, was a […]

Live Review: Elles Bailey + Demi Marriner + Ida Mae, The Fire Station, Sunderland – 14th November 2024

November 25, 2024 Viv Fish 0

Having recently enjoyed reviewing Elles Bailey’s fourth studio album, “Beneath the Neon Glow“, I was thrilled to spot her playing just a thirty-minute drive away. However, while looking forward to seeing Bailey, I hadn’t realised just […]

Live Review: The 7 Hills Songwriters Festival, Assembly Rooms Bath, 16th March 2024

March 28, 2024 Tim Martin 0

The Assembly Rooms in Bath were the heart of fashionable society in 18th Century Bath. The Octagon Room, home to the main event today, gets a mention in Jane Austen and Charles Dickens and is one […]

Live review: Annie Keating, The Fallen Angels Club @The Glad Cafe, Glasgow – 9th April 2022

April 14, 2022 Paul Kerr 0

As the “new normal” slowly settles in, the gig calendar is filling up and that sense of release, almost a degree of frisson, which one experienced when the first chords rang out after two years of […]

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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 […]

Tracks

Songs for the apocalypse: The Handsome Family “So Much Wine”

January 16, 2020 0

The Handsomes are one of those bands that feel so synonymous with what the americana genre means to me I feel they should be on the front of textbooks, with that rich combination of melody, atmosphere […]

Videos

Video: Francesca Brown “When a Cowboy Cries”

August 10, 2023 0

Here’s the latest single from Californian singer-songwriter Francesca Brown. In ‘When a Cowboy Cries’, the combination of guitars, pedal steel and fiddle creates a full, timeless country sound over a gently swaying rhythm. In particular, George Madrid’s […]

Videos

Video Premiere: Anton & The Colts “My Favourite Song”

April 19, 2019 0

Now this is rather good from Glasgow’s Anton & The Colts. It’s the new single from their album “No End Of The Line”, out now and has real heart and soul. Nice video too. Anton is […]

More People Really Should Know About: Demi Marriner

For the Sake of the Song: David Ford “Cheer Up (You Miserable F*ck)”

Live Review: Elles Bailey + Demi Marriner + Ida Mae, The Fire Station, Sunderland – 14th November 2024

Live Review: The 7 Hills Songwriters Festival, Assembly Rooms Bath, 16th March 2024

Live review: Annie Keating, The Fallen Angels Club @The Glad Cafe, Glasgow – 9th April 2022

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”