John has been a music obsessive since he first heard 'Love Me Do' seeping out of the family radio in 1962. he spent a career in the rail industry before turning back to his first love of music. He plays bass guitar and melodeon, loves folk/rock and lives in Warwick.
We’ve hopped it down to Kent to catch up with Fairport Convention and their guest Jenn Butterworth as the band’s Spring Tour 2026 continues to weave its way around the country. And, as the spring sun makes an appearance, thoughts of Cropredy start to germinate…
New wave, psychedelic, jazz and folk rock influences join forces behind Pete Gioconda’s outlandish, poetic, lyrics for Up You – unlike anything else you’ll hear this year!
That 1975 landmark Stockholm show in all its full-length glory! Chrysalis Records and Robin Trower celebrate the 50th anniversary of a great live album by revealing the same concert in its full magnificence.
Fourth album from Bath-based Owl In The Sun takes a soothing journey away from the dark times and into the warmth and fizz of a French Café.
Doctor Nativo takes cumbia, reggae, mariachi, Afro-native rhythms and Mesoamerican oral traditions and blends them like they ain’t never been blended before!
Fairport Convention share a few highlights of their Wintour 2025 show on Roadworks, a new live album…only available during the current Spring Tour, or at Cropredy…
Third album from Newbury-based singer-songwriter Joe Hicks. Before It Gets Dark is a cathartic set of songs, written as Joe came to terms with breakup and the death of his father.
A dose of Californian sunshine – all way from Aberdeen. Our old friend Kevin Robertson is back and his new band is ready to jangle…
Welcome to Issue 2 of Singles Selection, featuring singles from Abigail Lapell, Teddy Thompson, Truthpaste, Josienne Clarke, Sons of Town Hall and HeKz.
The new album from the Invisible System collective is a masterful and fascinating fusion of the music of East and West Africa and the Caribbean
Edinburgh musician/poet/novelist Andrew Ferguson returns, with a new issue to discuss. This time around, his chosen subject is First World Problems
Sean Cooney and friends tell the harrowing story of The Peterloo Massacre of 1819 – with gory details all included. It’s the tale of an event that must never be forgotten and, in the capable hands of Sean & Co, the story of Peter’s Field is a folk epic.
In our 14th March 2026 edition of Singles Selection we feature singles from Pete Gioconda, Luke James Williams, Eugene McGuinness, Ella Clayton, Annie Dressner and When Rivers Meet.
Moya Sweeney and Archie Churchill-Moss pool resources to explore the expressive possibilities of the diatonic button accordion.
In Spring 1975, estranged friends – Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart set out on a historic tour. The full story of that reunion is told on this deluxe reissue of their 1975 Bongo Fury album
