Logan Richard – Kissing My Love: Single Review
Live-in-the-studio cover of a Bill Withers classic from Prince Edward Island singer-songwriter Logan Richard.
John Barlass
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.
Fairport Convention, Autumn Tour – Medina Theatre, Newport, Isle of Wight: Live!
And the bus just keeps rolling along – this time with the aid of the Portsmouth-Fishbourne car ferry. It’s Saturday 25th October and Fairport are paying their first visit to the Isle of Wight in nine years. At The Barrier was there to help welcome the Folk/Rock World Champions back to Vectis.
Waylon Jennings – Songbird: Album Review
Shooter Jennings, son of Waylon, unearths a treasure trove of his father’s unreleased songs, polishes and presents them. Result: the first ‘new’ Waylon Jennings album in many a year. And it’s a scorcher!
August Gilde – The First Of August: Album Review
Yorkshire-based singer-songwriter August Gilde returns with another set of his signature warm, unguarded songs on an album to savour and reflect upon.
Beauty Sleep – The Whole Damn Cake: Album Review
Belfast dream-pop duo Beauty Sleep are in a defiant mood as they express their commitment to Radical Happiness on their second album.
Mishra & Deepa Shakthi – Turn O Spinning Wheel: Album Review
Mishra take the concept of cross-cultural music to a new level when joined by international fusion vocalist Deepa Shakthi.
Novelty Island – Jigsaw Causeway: Album Review
“Stitched together like the fragments of a dream.” Liverpool songwriter Tom O’Connell -aka Novelty Island – presents a painstakingly-assembled collage of sounds.
Dollpile – Stoplights: Single Review
Second single to preview the forthcoming album, Someone Else’s Heaven. Stoplights is another alluring chunk of Fuzz Folk from Denver. Colorado outfit. Dollpile.
George Mann & Mick Coates – Ghosts Of The Old West: Album Review
The talents of Ithica, NY polemicist George Mann and Aussie folky Mick Coates fit together very well as Ghosts Of The Old West demonstrates.
Katherine Priddy – Matches: Single Review
First foretaste of These Frightening Machines, the forthcoming third album from wavemaker Katherine Priddy.
Frankie Archer – The Demon Lover: Single Review
The Demon Lover single from Frankie Archer, where tables get turned, light becomes dark and morals get rewritten.
Brown Boots Boogie Band – Dancing Boots: Album Review
The debut album from all-guns-blazing Brown Boots Boogie Band is poised to set the nation a-jigging, a-polkering and a-reeling.
N’Faly Kouyaté – Finishing: Album Review
The traditional sounds of West Africa blend seamlessly with vibrant electronica on Finishing. The new album from Guinean ‘Avant-Garde Griot,’ N’Faly Kouyaté is a masterpiece of Afrotronix
Barbara w/ Jim Danby – Masham Town Hall: Live Review
At The Barrier favourites Barbara ride into Masham on a wet and windy Friday, accompanied by a large posse of eager Barbarettes. And if that isn’t a cue for an evening of fun, frolics and phantasmagoria then, quite frankly, I don’t know what is! And, this time around, they’ve got an album to promote…
Nirvana – The Show Must Go On: Boxset Review
The complete works of the first incarnation of the British Nirvana, plus a plethora of outtakes, rarities and later works on a mammoth 12-CD set.