Matt Owens

Live Review: Our Man In The Field + Matt Owens and the Delusional Vanity Project, Nightjar at Bath Pizza Co, Bath – 17th January 2025

January 22, 2025 Tim Martin 0

This was the first of Matt Owens’ Nightjar sessions, which aims to pair a touring act with a local Bath band. Our Man In The Field was the chosen band to open their touring year. Despite […]

The Americana Spirit of 24: Tim Martin

December 11, 2024 Tim Martin 0

From genre stretching to jangle, by way of Portsmouth, AUK’s Books Editor Tim Martin shared his pick of the Americana crop for 2024. I read back over my 2023 review of the year to remind myself […]

Live Review: The 7 Hills Songwriters Festival, Assembly Rooms Bath, 16th March 2024

March 28, 2024 Tim Martin 0

The Assembly Rooms in Bath were the heart of fashionable society in 18th Century Bath. The Octagon Room, home to the main event today, gets a mention in Jane Austen and Charles Dickens and is one […]

Video Review of the Year 2023

December 22, 2023 Andrew Frolish 1

Is it really that time of year already? Oh, yes it is. It’s time to prepare for some festive, frolicking fun and to look forward to whatever madness 2024 will bring. First, though, we need to […]

2023 – Americana and me… There really is gold on the horizon

December 13, 2023 Tim Martin 0

Looking back at my review of 2022 this year’s theme is much the same. Lots of great music but an ongoing concern about the future, especially that of live music. Moles Club in Bath closed the […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers