Columns
Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 114
Trips to foreign fields – food for thought So the last week has involved two separate trips to France / Belgium. First up 96 Year 9 students exploring World War 1 in Flanders and the Somme […]
Tom Waits
Features
VERSIONS: “Ol’ 55”
Welcome back to our popular VERSIONS feature. For those of you not familiar with it, the idea is that our writers pick a great song and then as well as presenting readers with the original version, […]
News
Tom Waits’ mid-period Island catalogue to be reissued
Personally overseen by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, Waits’ spectacular middle-period albums–released on Island Records between 1983 and 1993—have been newly remastered from the original tapes and will be reissued on vinyl and CD this autumn […]
Classic Americana Albums
Classic Americana Albums: Tom Waits “Closing Time”
A drunk props himself up at one end of a seedy bar; a down-and-out stumbles across a dirty city street in search of somewhere safe in an unfriendly city; a working girl looks blankly at the […]
AUK's Chain Gang
AUK’s Chain Gang: Tom Waits “Buzz Fledderjohn”
Following on from last week’s selection of the wonderful Richard Thompson’s ‘Beeswing’, the Chain moves on to another of the great songwriters of our time, Tom Waits – but that’s not the connection. The track is […]