Heaven 17 – O2 Institute, Birmingham: Live Review
Heaven 17 finally make it to Birmingham again after the now obligatory postponements. I think the phrase ‘better late than never’ is extremely apt.
Heaven 17 finally make it to Birmingham again after the now obligatory postponements. I think the phrase ‘better late than never’ is extremely apt.
70s janglemasters, Starry Eyed & Laughing, take flight a full forty six years, and counting, since their last Byrds infused outing. Has the wait been worth it?
Jazz ambient bagpipe fusion from Fraser Fifield: approach with inquisitiveness and be somewhat surprised.
Zesty debut from Utah folkie turned Nashville country rocker. Alicia Stockman releases These Four Walls.
Close knit sibling harmonies from the antipodean sisters weave more ethereal magic on the third offering from Charm Of Finches
Sunshiny jangle pop awash with Rickenbacker melodies and harmonic charm from Ian M. Bailey.
Debut release from polished newcomer Margo Cilker; retro Americana hues in a new light, looking both backward and forward. A name to watch and remember.
The ever evolving MÃ nran continue to deliver their solid wedges of rock infused trad. hues.
The Hello Darlins deliver a classy and sophisticated wash of Canadian country-pop, with echoes of Alison Krauss guesting with Fleetwood Mac.
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis tour their joint recording, Carnage, invoking the spirits at a prayer meeting in all seven stations of Hell. Praise be!
Multinational retro-blues-rockers with a modernist twist present their scorching studio debut. Here’s Wanted by Five Points Gang.
Country contrarians from the Catskills, the Felice Brothers, keep ’em coming, still like nothing or nobody else out there. Like that’s a good thing, and, unmistakably, it is.
Timeless, feelgood music from The Bean Pickers Union that embraces, with rapture, as many styles of American country infused rock as you can shake a leg at. And probably will.
Our man in a sleeping bag corrals up in East Anglia, finding it all a bit better than OK. Seuras Og takes us to the 2021 iteration of the Maverick Festival.
Considered and insightful thoughts on the state of his nation, by the master of folk-blues, Eric Bibb, managing to counter the sometime bleakness of vision by embracing a number of styles.