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Live Review: Ian Prowse, The Waterfront, Norwich, 28th March 2025

April 4, 2025 Daisy Innes 2

In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the classic Amsterdam hit, ‘Does This Train Stop At Merseyside?’, Ian Prowse is riding the rails across the UK. The fifth stop of an extensive tour saw him stopping […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Ian Prowse celebrates 20 years of ‘Does This Train Stop On Merseyside’

December 3, 2024 Martin Johnson 2

Experiencing your greatest musical success when you are 60. The old adage “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” could have been written for Liverpool’s own Ian Prowse. The singer-songwriter has been in two […]

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Interview: Only Child Alan O’Hare on emotion, humanity and “Straight Lines”

March 11, 2022 Martin Johnson 2

How watching his Mum getting ready to go out dancing inspired the musical career of Only Child. It is a long time since the heyday of Merseybeat and the Beatles, but Liverpool still has a vibrant […]

Album Reviews

Ian Prowse “One Hand On The Starry Plough”

February 14, 2022 Lyndon Bolton 0

An uncompromisingly bleak take on today’s world but not without hope. In an interview with AUK last November, the ‘Scouse Springsteen/Strummer’ Ian Prowse revealed how lockdown had re-energised his musical career. The evidence is there for […]

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Live Review: Ian Prowse, West Hampstead Arts and Social Club, 5th November 2021

November 16, 2021 David Chalfen 0

Having kicked off the AUK columns for November with a 4000+ word interview, it’s fair to say that this website clearly has plenty of time for Ian Prowse, and indeed vice versa. Pitching up in North […]

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Buck Owens And His Buckaroos “Adios, Farewell, Goodbye, Good Luck, So Long: On Stage 1964-1974”

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Jolie Holland to release Michael Hurley tribute with Max Knause

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Matt Hill “Save Your Pity” – a life lived without regrets

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  • Buck Owens And His Buckaroos “Adios, Farewell, Goodbye, Good Luck, So Long: On Stage 1964-1974”
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  • Ead Wood “Cash Mountain”
  • Matt Hill “Save Your Pity” – a life lived without regrets
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Interview: Michelle Billingsley on honky-tonkin’ and two-steppin’

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It was a windy, wintry January day in Chicago when June, Michelle Billingsley’s 50-pound Australian Shepherd, jumped up beside her on the couch. “Yeah, she saw me putting on my makeup, which usually means I’m going […]

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Interview: Swarme of Beese finds more poetry in darkness than in light

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The term mutant folk seems to fit. In the band’s early days, before The Victor Mourning emerged from the pupa into an adult Swarme of Beese, their songs elicited unusual receptions. Co-songwriter Lynne Adele recalls performing […]

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Interview: Sean McConnell on taking a journey underneath the skin

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Looking at the cover artwork for Sean McConnell’s latest album “Skin” (Silent Desert Music, 2025), you might think he has a fixation on tattoos, what with the drawing of a hand covered in ink art from […]

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