The Barbican

Live Review: Aldous Harding + Vera Ellen, The Barbican, London – 31st May 2026

June 12, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0

There’s always a question over whether a gig review should spend too much time on setting the scene before the gig; the travail of travel, the pleasure (or otherwise) of the weather, the detail of the […]

Live Review: Paraorchestra and The Breath, The Barbican, London – 22nd April 2026

May 12, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0

It’s a fairly unusual thing to be attending a gig where all the background on the reasoning for the collaboration and what each of the parts of the equation, folk group The Breath and the larger […]

Live Review: Lucinda Williams + Ben De La Cour, The Barbican, London – 3rd February 2026

February 11, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0

On this, predictably, wet and sleety night The Barbican became the centre of the Americana world, as the official Number One Greatest Americana Artist was set to take the stage with her band. There was a […]

Live Review: Cat Power, The Barbican, London – 1st June 2025

June 12, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

This is a gig with a subtitle – Sings Dylan 66 – because this is Cat Power’s tribute to Dylan, drawing on the controversial 1966 tour and specifically the legendary Royal Albert Hall gig, which, of […]

Live Review: Jason Isbell, The Barbican, London – 10th February 2025

March 6, 2025 Jonathan Aird 2

Jason Isbell is, it goes without saying, one of the shining lights of Americana – if someone wants to know what Americana is then you point at the totality of his musical output and just say […]

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