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Mid-Sussex Music and Ale Festival

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Live Review: Mid Sussex Music & Ale Festival, The Hassocks, Saturday 24th August 2024

September 10, 2024 Ken Beveridge 0

Brighthelmstone Promotions have been putting on this little festival since 2017. It takes place in the picturesque village of Hassocks, just north of Brighton. The venue is, strangely enough, a village pub, The Hassocks, handily situated […]

Previews

Preview: Mid Sussex Music & Ale Festival, Sat 26th – Sun 27th August 2023

August 23, 2023 Paul Kerr 0

With the August bank holiday weekend coming up then that means that the ever popular showcase for UK based Americana acts, the Mid Sussex Music & Ale Festival is about to take place again at The […]

Interviews

Interview: Talking the post pandemic festival blues with Brighthelmstone’s Jim Walker

August 22, 2022 Paul Kerr 0

Real post lockdown challenges being faced by Mid Sussex Music and Ale Festival. Back in August 2019 AUK spoke with Jim Walker, managing director of Brighton based Brighthelmstone Promotions, about his third annual Mid-Sussex Music and […]

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Interviews

Interview: Tim O’Brien and Jan Fabricius on picking paper flowers

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Writing songs with Tom Paxton was like going fishing with a friend. Paper flowers generally symbolise enduring love, remembrance, and creativity. Unlike fresh flowers, they don’t fade or die, memorialising a love that lasts or a […]

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Behind the Songs: Chris Stamey “Anything Is Possible”

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North Carolina singer-songwriter and producer Chris Stamey is an indie rock icon with a long and illustrious history, starting in the mid-70s with Mitch Easter in the band Sneakers, then co-founding the avant-pop band The dBs […]

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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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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

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As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

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Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

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Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

Obituaries

The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

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I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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