Frank Turner

Video: Frank Turner “Nashville Tennessee Live 2006” – I was raised in Middle England

March 12, 2026 Andrew Frolish 0

If you’ve been following Frank Turner’s solo career for the last couple of decades, then this is a real treat and a surefire sign that we’ve all got a little older. Unbelievably, it is the 20th […]

Back with a bang! A bigger and more diverse Cambridge Folk Festival returns with the first acts announcement

November 28, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

One of the most celebrated events in the UK summer calendar, Cambridge Folk Festival returns in 2026 with multi-venue, city-wide events, culminating in a 2-day Festival on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 August, at the festival’s […]

Iconic live venue launches Crowdfunder for longterm survival

August 6, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

A breathtakingly enthusiastic outpouring of support has greeted the news that Winchester’s Railway Inn has announced a crowdfunding initiative to prevent it from closing. The explanation on the funding page lays out the position in stark […]

Live Review: Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls + Lucy Grubb + Amigo The Devil, UEA, Norwich – 12th April 2025

April 23, 2025 Andrew Frolish 1

Few acts can command the fervent live following that Frank Turner can. With a relentless touring schedule that recently saw Turner celebrate his 3,000th solo gig, he has steadily grown a huge and passionate fan-base, many […]

Video Review of the Year 2024

December 12, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

Here we are again, hurtling towards another Christmas and another year. Time flies when we’re having fun, so 2024 must have been a good one. An election in the UK gave me some hope. An election […]

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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

Erika Severyns “Ireland” – is it a dream?

December 15, 2023 0

‘Ireland‘ is the new release from Erika Severyns debut album ‘Places We Stay’, which was produced and mixed by Gareth Quinn Redmond, who has previously worked with Junior Brother, Ye Vagabonds, and Glen Hansard. It was […]

News

Black Deer Full Line up announced – Friday headliner revealed!

April 25, 2022 0

Black Deer Festival organisers have announced the final lineup for this year’s weekend of Americana. The big reveal is the addition of James to headline slots on the Friday. They will be joining the big names […]

Videos

Video: Patterson Hood “The Forks of Cypress” (ft. Waxahatchee)

March 5, 2025 0

The latest single from Drive By Truckers co-founder Patterson Hood is the beautifully-written, arranged and produced “The Forks of Cypress”. The song, already epic-sounding, is enhanced by vocal accompaniment from the outstanding Waxahatchee (Katie Crutchfield); their […]

Video: Frank Turner “Nashville Tennessee Live 2006” – I was raised in Middle England

Back with a bang! A bigger and more diverse Cambridge Folk Festival returns with the first acts announcement

Iconic live venue launches Crowdfunder for longterm survival

Live Review: Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls + Lucy Grubb + Amigo The Devil, UEA, Norwich – 12th April 2025

Video Review of the Year 2024

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”