The Railway Inn

Iconic live venue launches Crowdfunder for longterm survival

August 6, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

A breathtakingly enthusiastic outpouring of support has greeted the news that Winchester’s Railway Inn has announced a crowdfunding initiative to prevent it from closing. The explanation on the funding page lays out the position in stark […]

Support Your Local Venue: The Railway Inn, Winchester

April 28, 2020 Paul Kerr 0

We’re only two items into our occasional series on those local venues which are the heart and soul of our music and of course, this damned virus has now shut them all down. It’s a blow […]

The Song Remains: Glen Hansard (1970-2026)

August 3, 2026 0

Busker, songwriter and actor who helped keep Ireland’s culture on the world’s stage. Irish singer-songwriter and actor Glen Hansard was killed in a single-vehicle motorcycle crash in the early morning of Wednesday 29 July in West […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 247 “Careful… Now!”

August 3, 2026 0

To twist the words of Father Ted towards current politics, I’m not thinking of madness and idiocy, or indeed the faults of the Catholic church, but the call to arms this week by the current PM. […]

LeBarons “Running River” – when will the good time arrive?

August 3, 2026 0

We’ve been with Lebarons since the 2018 singles leading up to their first album, their last release was Days Are Mountains some three years back, and this is their latest single. Should we guess at a […]

Iconic live venue launches Crowdfunder for longterm survival

Support Your Local Venue: The Railway Inn, Winchester

The Song Remains: Glen Hansard (1970-2026)

Sounds from beyond the Shed 247 “Careful… Now!”

LeBarons “Running River” – when will the good time arrive?

Video Premiere: Bob Hillman “Interesting Friends”

Something for the weekend: case/lang/veirs “People Have The Power”