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Latest podcast available now with exclusive reveal of this year’s Ramblin’ Roots line up and Jesper Lindell too!

January 23, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0
It’s two for the price of one week as Keith interviews Tristan Tipping of The Ramblin’ Roots Revue and Jesper Lindell. In an AUK exclusive, Tristan reveals the line-up for this year’s Ramblin’ Roots festival, and […]
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Podcast number 10 now featuring South Korean band Wednesdayoff is now live!

December 5, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0
A packed show this week as Keith interviews South Korean band Wednesdayoff, as well as Editor in Chief Mark Whitfield. There are tracks from Luke Tuchscherer, James Hodder, Richard Thompson, David Ford, Michael Weston King, and […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: Ramblin’ Roots Revue, Bucks University, 5th-7th April 2024

April 22, 2024 Ken Beveridge 5
The Ramblin’ Roots Revue is a small boutique festival held annually at Bucks University in High Wycombe. Its origins dwell in the history of Clubhouse Records and Tristin Tipping and ex Borderline man Noel Crompton. Their […]
Live Reviews

Live review: James Hodder, Betsey Trotwood, London – 10th February 2023

February 27, 2023 Ken Beveridge 0
You know that you are in for a musical treat when the gig that you are attending is a) – taking place in The Betsey Trotwood, and b) – it is being put on by Black […]
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The Blue Highways + James Hodder + Jamie Freeman + Howard Rose, The Betsey Trotwood, London, 18th & 19th October 2019

October 31, 2019 Claire Stones 0
Unusually for what is essentially a brand new band, The Blue Highways played two shows back to back at the Betsey Trotwood in London’s Clerkenwell to celebrate their debut EP which was released back in August. […]

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Something for the weekend: This is Lorelie “Where’s Your Love Now (Waxahatchee Version)”

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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

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Remedy Motel “Counting Sand”

Album Reviews
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Book review: Richard Houghton “Iain Matthews: A People’s History”

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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Joseph Martone

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Tracks

Something for the weekend: This is Lorelie “Where’s Your Love Now (Waxahatchee Version)”

April 17, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week. Regular readers will no doubt be sick to death now of me plugging this guy but his stuff is so good and as if any more proof was […]
Interviews

Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

April 17, 2026 0
Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
Album Reviews

Remedy Motel “Counting Sand”

April 17, 2026 0
Utah band on a roll with their second ‘comeback’ album after a 15-year hiatus. You feel as though you should showcase this band in our Feature article More People Really Should Know About..…because, despite the fact […]

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  • Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming
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  • Book review: Richard Houghton “Iain Matthews: A People’s History”
  • Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Joseph Martone
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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

April 17, 2026 0
Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
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Interview: Thomas Ådland, of Thomas & The Angry Hearts, on Language, Love and Identity

April 13, 2026 0
Two days before I heard them fill Martin’s Bar in Lillestrøm, I watched Thomas & The Angry Hearts make music in a wooden house surrounded by trees. In that studio, sound was built patiently: a harmony […]
Interviews

Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Ríoghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

April 7, 2026 0
How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]

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Alex Rex “Paradise”

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Something for the weekend: Jade Bird “White Winter Hymnal”

January 6, 2023 0
Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader – it’s been a bit quiet here at AUK Towers while we nurse our new year hangovers and various bouts of flu but a gradual easing […]
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Steve Earle & Reckless Kelly “Bad Girls” – never sad girls

July 22, 2025 0
Today’s song finds two titans of Outlaw country turning Wham on their heads and instead of boasting about their own bad boy status find that they are hankering after some of the girls (we’re thinking they […]

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