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The Burning Hell “Ghost Palace”

April 8, 2025 Darren Lumbroso 0

Funny, thoughtful and tuneful album about a post-people planet. Who would have thought that the end of the world could be this joyful, quirky and funny? The Burning Hell claim to have been writing party anthems […]

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Finally! The Covid delayed “Never Work” by Ariel Sharatt & Mathias Kom makes it to UK shores

February 23, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Working hard or hardly working? The last few years have been a bit of both. In the spring of 2020 Ariel Sharratt & Mathias Kom released an album of contemporary labour songs and were just getting […]

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The Burning Hell hit the UK for (more) dates

May 23, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

The Burning Hell is the ongoing musical project of songwriter Mathias Kom and multi-instrumentalists Ariel Sharratt and Jake Nicoll, along with other sometime comrades and collaborators, a band for which we have a soft spot here […]

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The Burning Hell “Garbage Island”

July 22, 2022 Cam Fraser 0

The Burning Hell return with an album of infectiously joyful music and trademark razor-sharp, droll but insightfully devastating lyrics. Canadian trio, The Burning Hell, are back with their ninth album, ‘Garbage Island.’ Based around songwriter Mathias […]

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Video: The Burning Hell “Birdwatching”

March 7, 2022 Ed Donnelly 0

Rapid-fire, literate, irreverent, surreal.  A cascade of lyrics spills from singer Mathais Kom’s mouth as The Burning Hell blaze through their new single, ‘Birdwatching’.  A jubilant indictment of the hustle, the side-hustle, and all the personal […]

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  • Matt Hill “Save Your Pity” – a life lived without regrets
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Interview: Michelle Billingsley on honky-tonkin’ and two-steppin’

July 2, 2025 0

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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Interview: Swarme of Beese finds more poetry in darkness than in light

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The term mutant folk seems to fit. In the band’s early days, before The Victor Mourning emerged from the pupa into an adult Swarme of Beese, their songs elicited unusual receptions. Co-songwriter Lynne Adele recalls performing […]

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Interview: Sean McConnell on taking a journey underneath the skin

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Looking at the cover artwork for Sean McConnell’s latest album “Skin” (Silent Desert Music, 2025), you might think he has a fixation on tattoos, what with the drawing of a hand covered in ink art from […]

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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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