Features
The Americana Spirit of 24: Tim Martin
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 […]
Our Man in the Field
Live Reviews
Live Review: Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk – 5th-7th July 2024
As promised, here’s part two of our Maverick Festival experience. Prior to coming over for the Maverick Festival, Jerry Joseph had played three shows in 24 hours at the High Sierra Festival in California, before driving […]
Live Reviews
Live Review: The 7 Hills Songwriters Festival, Assembly Rooms Bath, 16th March 2024
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 […]
Features
Americana UK’s Top 20 Albums of 2023: Part One, 20-11
Here at AUK Towers, like all loving families, we fight – a lot – over who has used the last of the milk, left the washing up in the sink, accidentally locked the cat in the […]
Features
2023 – Americana and me… There really is gold on the horizon
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 […]