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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 […]
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Live Preview: Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk – 4th–6th July 2025

April 29, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0
A highlight in the Americana musical calendar is always the annual Maverick Festival in Suffolk.  The first Americana festival in the UK, Maverick has been attracting audiences to the barns of Easton Farm Park since 2008.  […]
Live Reviews

Summertyne Americana Festival – Sunday, Free Stages, The Sage – Gateshead, 23rd July 2017

August 3, 2017 Rudie Hayes 0
On the banks of the Tyne stands the silver bauble that is the Sage, its otherworldly structure home this weekend to some world class performers, surely covered elsewhere on these pages. The bit that always interests […]

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Anniversary Cheers: The Handsome Family “Singing Bones”

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Preview: Gate To Southwell Festival 2026 in July features The Proclaimers and Richard Thompson

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Live Review: Cowboy Junkies, London Palladium, London – 11th May 2026

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Anniversary Cheers

Anniversary Cheers: The Handsome Family “Singing Bones”

May 26, 2026 0
An addition to our Anniversary Cheers occasional Feature: this is The Handsome Family with a re-release, with additional outtakes and live recordings, of the excellent Singing Bones. The Handsome Family are Brett and Rennie Sparks, a […]
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Preview: Gate To Southwell Festival 2026 in July features The Proclaimers and Richard Thompson

May 26, 2026 0
With only a few weeks to go until the 19th Gate To Southwell Festival, fans are looking forward to this four-day event in rural Nottinghamshire which runs from 2nd-5th July. The festival features more than 60 […]
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Live Review: Cowboy Junkies, London Palladium, London – 11th May 2026

May 26, 2026 0
The Timmins family (and a close friend) band has reached the milestone of forty years as a band and forty years since their debut album, Whites Off Earth Now!!, and for their current tour, they have […]

  • Anniversary Cheers: The Handsome Family “Singing Bones”
  • Preview: Gate To Southwell Festival 2026 in July features The Proclaimers and Richard Thompson
  • Live Review: Cowboy Junkies, London Palladium, London – 11th May 2026
  • Various Artists “Let’s Go Dancing: Stopped a Freight Train with a Grain of Sand”
  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 231 “Raging”
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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

May 20, 2026 0
There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

May 19, 2026 2
Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]
Interviews

Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

May 18, 2026 1
At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

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Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer “Not Dark Yet” – Listen

August 2, 2017 0
Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer have revealed ‘Is It Too Much’, a song co-written by the sisters and the third track to be taken from their long-awaited collaboration album ‘Not Dark Yet’ which is out 18th […]
Tracks

Side Pony “Lucky Break” – Listen

April 29, 2021 0
“What’s a few months or a year to fix what’s really broken here ?” ask Side Pony – who are Alice Wallace and Caitlin Cannon on their new single ‘Lucky Break’, and it’s hard to see […]
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Wes Corbett “Hartford’s Bend On The Cumberland” – drift to the sea

December 3, 2025 1
Hey, Wednesday afternoon has sure rolled around fast this week, and there’s so much to do, isn’t there?  Never a moment’s peace, never any time to kick-back and take in some songs without words as you […]

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