Ella Spencer

Sounds from beyond the Shed 170 “Awards”

January 24, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 1

I’m attending the AMAUK Awards this week and am looking forward to it. Not necessarily for the thrill of the envelope ripping and smiling winner’s faces as I’m usually standing next to the person whose name […]

Ella Spencer “Warning Signs” – always come too late

January 17, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

‘Warning Signs‘ is a slow but dramatic song from Ella Spencer – it’s a song for which the word foreboding was created. Something bad has happened, and maybe there’s worse to come – as Ella notes […]

Video: Ella Spencer “I Never Told You About Oregon”

October 31, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

British-American singer-songwriter Ella Spencer has just launched her latest single, the piano-driven ballad ‘I Never Told You About Oregon’, written while on a road trip down America’s West Coast on 2023. Spencer’s heartfelt vocal winds its […]

Live Review: The Sam Chase Trio + Ella Spencer, Sudbury Arts Centre, St Peter’s Church, Sudbury – 18th October 2024

October 24, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

Early in his set at the Sudbury Arts Centre, Sam Chase looked around him, at the dramatic interior of the converted church, and said, “I feel like we should be whispering right now…I worship the arts. […]

Live Review: Ella Spencer, Basement at the Green Note, London – 3rd October 2024

October 18, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

It’s a real privilege to be around when a talented artist is just beginning their musical journey, watching them grow and develop both as a writer and performer. I’ve seen Ella Spencer, a gifted multi-instrumentalist, on […]

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