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Robbie Boyd : Bush Hall

23/07/2013

Odes of a life unmarred by complication or dissonance. Robbie Boyd live....

Jack Cheshire : Interview

05/07/2013

'I've always found it difficult to describe my music to people, but psychedelic is definitely something I aspire to.' Jack Cheshire talks to Trebuchet....

Henry Diltz Interview [Part 2]

21/06/2013

It was all peace and love; let the universe decide, do it the right way. That’s the way life should be and maybe it will....

Silent Old Mtns : Naked Raccoon [Interview]

19/06/2013

I don't think anyone has heard these tracks outside of the band, except maybe my Dad...

Henry Diltz, Music Photographer [Interview]

14/06/2013

I photograph t-shirts and I photograph tattoos and I photograph graffiti and people giving the peace sign and people giving the finger. David Crosby was always giving me the finger....

Tubular Bells for Two

14/05/2013

Their idea, conceived round a fire with a few glasses of wine, was to reproduce Tubular Bells on two guitars...

Apples & Eve [Live]

03/04/2013

Apples & Eve :close your eyes and they could be opening for Edith Piaf framed by a velvet curtain while the audience drink pink champagne and blow smoke rings...

Aidan Baker : Already Drowning

28/03/2013

seven portraits of acoustic melancholy, distorted love and gothic eroticism...

Loitered Lens : Apples & Eve

24/03/2013

Sweeping folk, wheezing accordion, and grand chanson stage theatrics. Apples & Eve at the Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen. Photos....

Benoit Pioulard : Hymnal

14/03/2013

Mechanisms for the reordering of memory and forward living. Benoit Pioulard : Hymnal. Released 4th March on Kranky ...

The Jar Family : Interview

07/03/2013

'it's only really folk inasmuch as The Jar Family is music for the common man by the common man - and we are quite common'...

Free Song : Anna Lena

27/02/2013

Anna Lena & the Orchids will release her self-titled, debut EP on March 21st 2013....

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds : Her Majesty’s Theatre

13/02/2013

Review: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Performing Push the Sky Away. Her Majesty’s Theatre, London. Feb 10th 2013...

Brythonic Gyrations

13/02/2013

I see Breton dances as a kind of bhajan. They are about losing yourself to something greater. We forget the Dionysian at our peril....

Evolution of a Classic [Folk Music]

23/01/2013

The sipsi is a small reedpipe, played using circular breathing, with a wild and thrilling sound. I was immediately captivated by the lumpy nine-time rhythms and mind-boggling technique....

Steve Harley: HMV Forum [Live]

02/01/2013

His songs were moderately touching but not heart stopping. The middle-aged faithful in the all-seated audience appreciated the old songs and were quietly appreciative rather than dancing in the...

Apples & Eve: Dionysus

23/11/2012

Genre-adjectives for the four-track will congregate around the word 'folk', mostly because there's a violin in there. Or a fiddle. Call it what you will. ...

The Tribes of Britain

21/11/2012

To be an activist is to suffer defeat after defeat after defeat. Without spirituality to recharge and revive us the danger is we fall into bitterness or despair or worse, self-righteousness. ...

Into the Appalachians [Tour Diary]

20/11/2012

'A single lane road etched through this land that’s not the north, or south, that's forgotten by the east but far from the west. If you pointed a rifle at the vast nothing that encompasses the...

Ben Caplan [Live]

19/11/2012

Ben Caplan would help me get over these prejudices, or at least not think about them too much. Partly because he has a beard you could catch a badger in, but most importantly, because he’s...

Perhaps Contraption:Interview

16/11/2012

When I play music, and connect with other musicians, I want to be transported away from the tripe the world churns up....

Trouble at t’Mill: Radio 2 Axe Mike Harding

31/10/2012

Folk. An English lower middle-class museum music. Ouch....

Col. Jon’s Cherokee Corn Pone

30/10/2012

It’s another favourite snack in these parts and something that I like to have the little woman cook up for me whilst I hang up the goat on Hallowe’en. Up until now this has been a very closely...

JKutchma: Interview

24/10/2012

He held himself like a man of another era. Like he had a shed full of tools and knew how to use them....

Bruce Cockburn: Bush Hall

17/10/2012

Back in Bush Hall, Cockburn preceded one song by saying, “the way to avoid dashed expectations is not to have any.” It was however clear that expectations were high as he took the stage...

One Mile an Hour [Album]

04/10/2012

Perhaps the music should be taken in the context of entertainment to fill six months of darkness with little more than cod heads, limpets and puffin broth for sensual pleasures. ...

Loitered Lens: Howlin’ Rain

01/10/2012

They started firing shots from the guitar like armour piercing rounds, and with that you just knew this was going be jaw-droppingly brilliant. ...

Loitered Lens: Van Susans

23/09/2012

Strong vocals and elaborate melodies resulted from the groups' ingenious use of electric and acoustic guitars, with a touch of violin played by Holly McLatchie. Olly Andrews carries the whole...

Challenging, Redrails most certainly is. Rewarding, in equal measure. Intriguing, and destined to be the source of many hours spent, headphones on, grasping to find the mental setting in which it all...

Listener [Live]

10/09/2012

Performing a set covering both old and newer material, Listener create an electric, vacuous atmosphere of mystification and strike the crowd near-dumb. The usual glazed, blank looks at the back of...

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