Columns
Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 116
Half term beckons and I’m not at all stressed… …until the wonderful Mrs H told me we were spending 5 days in a house with all the children and grandchildren – 14 of us altogether. I […]
The Sadies
Interviews
Interview: The Delines’ Willy Vlautin on their 2022 Americana UK poll success
The Delines, a ballad band with a jazz keyboardist, a jazz drummer, and an R&B bassist. The Delines won the Americana UK Album Of The Year 2022 and were runners-up in our readers’ Album Of The […]
Live Reviews
Live Review: UK Americana Music Week. AMAUK UK Showcases, Hackney Venues, 24th & 25th January 2023
The annual AmericanaFest Showcases organised by the AMA-UK as part of their festival is a highlight of the year. With six venues (Moth Club, Paper Dress Vintage, Night Tales, Oslo, Hackney Social and Hackney Church Brew […]
Live Reviews
Live Review: UK Americana Music Week, Loose Music Takeover @The AMAUK Showcase, Paper Dress Vintage, Hackney, London – 24th January 2023
Remember live indoor music festivals, the ones that get held in the winter, when it’s raining or snowing outside? January ‘21 and ’22 put paid to these. They got replaced by the online “live” performances that […]
Videos
Video: The Sadies “More Alone”
With close harmonies, lead guitar that could be straight from a Morricone soundtrack and a wizard walking through an ancient forest, The Sadies blaze a black and white bonfire of a track with the video for […]