Folk
News: Myles Kennedy announces solo UK headline dates
Myles Kennedy has announced his first ever headline UK dates as a solo artist to coincide with the release of his first solo album in March. Presales will begin at 9am on Wednesday 16th January with O2, and 9am on Thursday 17th January at 9am with Livenation, before general sale begins at 9am on Friday …
News: The Low Anthem reveal new concept album, watch album trailer
The eminent classical avant garde composer John Cage visited the music college I attended in my youth. Little did he expect, I’m sure, after a detailed explanation of his chance music and various prepared piano experiments to be asked questions which included ‘Do you like fish and chips?’ and ‘Do you want to come with …
Not Forgotten: Bob Dylan – John Wesley Harding
Music changed forever in 1967, primarily because in the wake of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, it was firmly established that the long player had finally wrestled the mantle of definitive medium for rock and roll statements from the single format. Sure, it was already in the pipeline anyway, as acts like Pink Floyd …
Live Review: Ryan Keen / Corey Harper, The Islington, London, 30/11/17
Totnes-born singer-songwriter Ryan Keen has graced the same stages as megastars like Ed Sheeran and X Factor champion Leona Lewis playing support slots on huge national and indeed world tours, but if he has been changed by these massive brushes with success, you’d never know. He has also toured with some of the most interesting …
See: Panteon reveals new video for debut single White Jaguar
Travelling the world might well provide inspiration for songwriting, but its not often that that inspiration comes in the shape of the indigenous civilisation of the the Kogi in Columbia, still living like they did some 400 years ago. Well, not many people are Yvonne Ambrée, aka Panteon. She’s used the tribe, who are apparently …
See: Holy Moly & The Crackers release new video for ‘Let Go’, plus November tour dates
‘Let Go’ is the new single off Holy Moly & The Crackers’ recently release album, Salem. ‘Let Go’. The North East gypsy folk outfit go in heavy on the record with some full on soulful vocals from Ruth Patterson, and its supported by crunchy guitar chords, fiddles, accordians and percussion building the tension and expectation …
Album Review: Pale Bird – Ten Things Which Aren’t Love
Pale Bird, aka Martin Austwick, or the artist formerly known as the Sound of the Ladies possesses an instantly identifiable folkish indie sound. Part of this is down to Austwick’s oddly soothing voice, his guitar work, or the feeling of space his production techniques provide between each instrument. It acts as an audible thread connecting …
Live Review: Richard Thompson / Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker Sheffield City Hall, 25.10.2017
Opening for an act like Richard Thompson, a man who has been at the forefront of the folk rock movement for five decades now, could easily overwhelm the unprepared. Luckily, with five albums already under their belt, and a wealth of good (and bad!) touring experience, Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker know what they are …
News: Celtic Connections Launch 25th Festival Programme
The Celtic Connections festival celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2018 with a line-up that links the past, present and future of Scotland’s music scene with musicians from all over the world. The festival will run from Thursday 18 January to Sunday 4 February 2018 in venues across Glasgow and will feature a mixture of intimate …
Album Review: Richard Thompson – Acoustic Rarities
The new Richard Thompson album, Acoustic Rarities, arrives barely two short months after the release of its sibling, Acoustic Classics Vol II, and is released both separately, and as a bonus disc to its predecessor. Where Acoustic Classics Vol II revisited well loved numbers from Thompson’s songbook, Acoustic Rarities takes the opportunity to compliment and …