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Andy & Marianne Watkins, live at Nettleham Village Hall, Lincoln - 17th May 2025

Live Review: Andy Watkins’ Day Of Folk, Celebrating 50 Years As A Promoter, Nettleham Village Hall, Lincoln – 17th May 2025

May 27, 2025 Graeme Tait 2

The role of a promoter is to market and promote live events which all sounds simple enough. So simple that at times we can all be a little guilty of taking their tireless work and endeavours […]

The Rye Sisters, live at Newbald Village Hall, North Newbald, Yorkshire, - 23rd March 2025

Live Review: The Rye Sisters, Newbald Village Hall, North Newbald, Yorkshire – 23rd March 2025

April 2, 2025 Graeme Tait 0

This evening’s show saw your reviewer return to the Newbald Village Hall for the second of this year’s early evening concert event, which, despite the start time of 4.30 pm being well advertised, still managed to […]

artwork for The Rye Sisters album "Distant Light"

The Rye Sisters “Distant Light”

January 19, 2024 Graeme Tait 3

A Joyous sophomore album guaranteed to banish the Mid-Winter blues. The Rye Sisters are a duo from Lincolnshire comprising of Sue Pomeroy guitar and vocals and Ishani Siriwardena violin and vocals who first joined forces back […]

The Rye Sisters, Live at St Mary's Guildhall, Lincoln (Album Launch Party). - 15th December, 2023

Live Review: The Rye Sisters, Album Launch Party, St Mary’s Guildhall, Lincoln – 15th December 2023

January 8, 2024 Graeme Tait 0

Just a mere six years after the release of their debut album ‘Brave Unbeaten Paths’ The Rye Sisters finally deliver the perfect Christmas present for their ever increasing fan base with the news of the imminent […]

Mike & Ruthy live at The Town Hall, Kirton In Lindsey. 7th April 2023

Live Review: The Mammals + The Rye Sisters, The Town Hall, Kirton In Lindsey – 7th April 2023

April 17, 2023 Graeme Tait 2

Throughout the years I have been privileged to witness some of the worlds finest acts, encompassing the full range in performance and entertainment levels, from the average and disappointing all the way to the breathtakingly brilliant. […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Album Reviews

Aerial East “Try Harder”

April 9, 2021 0

Strange yet familiar, dreamlike yet tangible; a beautiful and intimate record. Aerial East’s ‘Try Harder‘ is a coming of age record about what it means to be a woman in America. At once strange and familiar, […]

Tracks

Freightliner “Up All Night” – we can certainly relate

July 24, 2025 0

There’s certainly something in the lyrics of the new single from Canadian band Freightliner that rings painfully true here at Americana UK Towers: “I’m up all night playing these songs/…/ ’til the dawn then I’m back […]

Tracks

Track Premiere – Lonesome Shack “New Dream”

February 18, 2019 0

Where do dreams come from ? In the case of Lonesome Shack’s ‘New Dream‘ which we premiere here, the simple answer is from singer and guitar finger-picker Ben Todd. Digging a little deeper and the rich […]

Live Review: Andy Watkins’ Day Of Folk, Celebrating 50 Years As A Promoter, Nettleham Village Hall, Lincoln – 17th May 2025

Live Review: The Rye Sisters, Newbald Village Hall, North Newbald, Yorkshire – 23rd March 2025

The Rye Sisters “Distant Light”

Live Review: The Rye Sisters, Album Launch Party, St Mary’s Guildhall, Lincoln – 15th December 2023

Live Review: The Mammals + The Rye Sisters, The Town Hall, Kirton In Lindsey – 7th April 2023

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”