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Live Review: Lush Fest with Essence Martins, Beans on Toast & Clara Pople, Lush Spa Oxford Street, London – 7th October 2026

October 16, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0
Well, this is a bit different from the usual gig experience, and definitely a new venue: the launch of the latest LUSH album, Best Day Of All Time, was at its Oxford Street premiere store, with […]

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Live Review: Lush Fest with Essence Martins, Beans on Toast & Clara Pople, Lush Spa Oxford Street, London – 7th October 2026

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The latest Americana UK podcast now available featuring Steve Wynn and Small Town Jones

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Danny Malone “Burning Hills” – making a pathway to the future

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Video: JP Harris “Hang Me” – “Old-time music has been a baseline for me”

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AUK Shortcuts: Scott Cook, The Mighty Bosscats, Leslie Waugh, Nick Brown, Wilder Adkins, Copperline, Rose Gerber, Admiral Radio, Uncle Lucius, and Big Bob in the Sky

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Live Reviews

Live Review: Lush Fest with Essence Martins, Beans on Toast & Clara Pople, Lush Spa Oxford Street, London – 7th October 2026

October 16, 2026 0
Well, this is a bit different from the usual gig experience, and definitely a new venue: the launch of the latest LUSH album, Best Day Of All Time, was at its Oxford Street premiere store, with […]
News

The latest Americana UK podcast now available featuring Steve Wynn and Small Town Jones

October 16, 2026 0
Keith’s back from down under with the podcast firing with both barrels, featuring, as it does two interviews with artists taking part in Americana 25. First up, the wonderful Steve Wynn, talking about new stuff and […]
Tracks

Danny Malone “Burning Hills” – making a pathway to the future

October 16, 2026 0
Burning Hills is the first release by Danny Malone in over a decade; it marks a return to music that has been, by any measure, not an easy one. In the early 2010s, his star was […]

  • Live Review: Lush Fest with Essence Martins, Beans on Toast & Clara Pople, Lush Spa Oxford Street, London – 7th October 2026
  • The latest Americana UK podcast now available featuring Steve Wynn and Small Town Jones
  • Danny Malone “Burning Hills” – making a pathway to the future
  • Video: JP Harris “Hang Me” – “Old-time music has been a baseline for me”
  • AUK Shortcuts: Scott Cook, The Mighty Bosscats, Leslie Waugh, Nick Brown, Wilder Adkins, Copperline, Rose Gerber, Admiral Radio, Uncle Lucius, and Big Bob in the Sky
  • Very Old Morris “Boogedy Boogedy Boogedy Shoop”
  • Solo debut from New Jersey singer-songwriter Sheila Vee out in November
  • Live Review: Lauren Housley, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 9th October 2026
  • The Talking Hearts “Memory Lane”
  • Katie Pruitt “Fools for the Fleeting”
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Interview: Wesley Stace “I’m never satisfied with my artistic output”

October 13, 2026 0
Since his birth in Sussex in 1965, Wesley Stace has become a man of all colours, releasing 21 albums (17 under the nom de auteur-interprète John Wesley Harding), writing four books, organising the Cabinet of Wonders […]
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Interview: Fischer-Z’s John Watts reminisces on 50 years of making heartfelt music

October 1, 2026 0
The songs of John Watts, whether in his band Fischer-Z, in his other bands or as a solo artist, aren’t technically Americana, but everything in their construction and recording has the feel of exactly what Americana […]
Interviews

Interview: Shawn Colvin, celebrating 30 years of “A Few Small Repairs”

September 29, 2026 2
Shawn Colvin has long established herself as one of the most captivating of singer-songwriters. She’s an accomplished guitar player, possessed of a fine voice, and she’s a storyteller of great talent. Her first album, Steady On, […]

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Buffalo Road “Whole New Silence” (Backwater Records, 2017)

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Buffalo Road’s third record “Whole New Silence” is described as something of a “lost album” by their record company, having first been completed in 2016 while only seeing the light of day last November. Meanwhile, the band are […]
Videos

Video: Prosecco Socialist “This Dog’s Just For Christmas (Not For Life)

December 13, 2017 0
Now this is AUK’s idea of a good Christmas song.  Prosecco Socialist are the new outfit formed by Dave Rotheray (ex-Beautiful South) and features Eleanor McEvoy and Hull legend Mike Greaves.  Don’t be confused by the […]
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Track Premiere: Jesse Terry “Headlines”

October 1, 2024 0
Jesse Terry’s new album ‘Arcadia‘ – his seventh original album release –  is out on October 4th, and features a shift in the kind of straight ahead roots-rock that we’ve come to expect from him into […]

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