The Waterboys

The Waterboys with Steve Earle to play three big shows for late summer 2026

November 24, 2025 Richard Parkinson 1

The Waterboys will perform a series of big dates in Dublin, London and Glasgow in August and September 2026 under the banner The Fisherman’s Blues Revue. The shows will celebrate and explore the music of the […]

Video Premiere: Sugarfoot “Political Disaster (In the End)”

July 30, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0

The new single from Sugarfoot is a compelling, energetic stream of sonic joy. Originally released on 2016 album “Different Stars”, it captures a time when there were deep social and political divisions opening up and conveys […]

Apocalypse Now! Waterboys announce new album and huge UK tour

January 8, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 2

Mike Scott examines pop culture through the lens of the Easy Rider. The Waterboys’ brand new, sixteenth studio album “Life, Death And Dennis Hopper” comes out on the iconic Sun Records on April 4th. The first […]

Classic Clips: The Waterboys “Fisherman’s Blues” – The Tube, Channel 4, 1986

February 3, 2023 Andy Davidson 1

Just recently, The Americana Music Association UK (AMA-UK) awarded Mike Scott a UK Lifetime Achievement Award. Scott is the creator and front man of The Waterboys. The album ‘Fisherman’s Blues‘ was released in October 1988 and […]

UK Americana Week and Awards – 2023 nominations announced

January 13, 2023 Emily Dongray 0

During the official launch at London’s Omeara venue, the Americana Music Association UK (AMA-UK) revealed the nominations for the eight panel and member-voted categories of the UK Americana Awards 2023 and the winners of the coveted […]

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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

Jim McCulloch “When I Mean What I Say”

May 10, 2021 0

A veritable garden of delights. Fairly hot on the heels of Jim McCulloch’s last release, the wonderful update of sixties folk-rock which was Snowgoose’s second album, the Motherwell born artist mines another cultural seam, this time, […]

Album Reviews

Songdog “Mirabilla Mundi”

April 11, 2025 0

Aging successfully requires the right kind of reminiscing. Welsh songwriter Lyndon Morgans’ ninth album is back to being Songdog and returning to some familiar themes, such as the passing of time, lost love, nostalgia and death. […]

Videos

Video Premiere: Jason McNiff “Try for the Sky”

September 20, 2023 0

One of the UK’s finest singer-songwriters is long-time friend of AUK Jason McNiff. His songcraft is masterful and ‘Try for the Sky’, taken from his 2021 album ‘Dust of Yesterday’, is a great example of his […]

The Waterboys with Steve Earle to play three big shows for late summer 2026

Video Premiere: Sugarfoot “Political Disaster (In the End)”

Apocalypse Now! Waterboys announce new album and huge UK tour

Classic Clips: The Waterboys “Fisherman’s Blues” – The Tube, Channel 4, 1986

UK Americana Week and Awards – 2023 nominations announced

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”