Ian Prowse

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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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 […]

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

March 23, 2026 0

An ambitious debut album that bravely tackles some very British subjects with an americana-folk twang. The genre may be americana – and America is most certainly struggling with its own set of problems right now – […]

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 […]

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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

Track Premiere: Izzie Walsh “Haunted”

September 16, 2021 0

‘Haunted‘ is a new release from Manchester’s Izzie Walsh, taken from her latest EP ‘Ideals‘ which is out on Friday. It’s one of her more rocky songs – dare we suggest there’s a hint of both […]

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Father John Misty “The Old Law” – going back to basics

January 15, 2026 1

Crunching guitars are the introduction to the new single from Father John Misty which steers off in an egg-man’s direction (goo-goo g’joob, g’goo goo g’joob), and that’s maybe not too surprising as whilst the song was […]

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

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

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

Ian Prowse “One Hand On The Starry Plough”

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

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For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

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