Swilkie – Iona Lane: Album Review
Island life, ornithology, botany and ecology combine to make any education a treat and a privilege.
Seuras Og
"Well, what sort of music do you like, Seuras?" Ever since that question was first aired by his mother a decade or six back he has struggled with the answer. And struggles still now. Call him a folkie, a country dude, a bluesman and he'll be happy, but don't forget the whiff of jazz, electronica and more. Not so keen on the charts, mind.
40 Years of Rum, Sodomy & the Lash, The Pogues : Live Review
We’re in Brum with the mighty and magnificent Pogues (and Stick In The Wheel).
Track Dogs – Tracks Laid, Tracks Covered: Album Review
A required retrospective of the adopted Madridēnos, the track record of these dogs with a few newies thrown in for better than good measure.
Jess Silk – Old, Broken Isle: EP Review
Give a girl a guitar and she’ll gallop: more broadsheets from the Jess Silk barricades!
TRIP – In Terra’s Keep: Album Review
Few slips twixt cup and TRIP here, as the pan-celts odyssey continues.
The Million Dollar Bash – Ashley Hutchings 80th Birthday Celebration Concert: Live Review
Ashley Hutchings, the Godfather of folk rock, celebrates a huge milestone with a star studded show at Birmingham Town Hall.
Dr. Strangely Strange – Anti-Inflammatory: Album Review
As normally odd as ever, this shows the Strangelies of Dr Strangely Strange to have become comfortably quirky in their eighties.
Tern – Flyway: Album Review
A band for or every season, featuring several cultures, Tern, Tern, Tern. Flyway is a captivating debut.
Danny Wilson – Complete Danny Wilson: Boxset Review
Danny Wilson, the Dundee Dan, as beguiling and even more bemusing than their memory.
Brown Horse – All The Right Weaknesses: Album Review
If these are their weaknesses, God help us when we see the strengths of Brown Horse!
Gigspanner Big Band – Turnstone: Album Review
Q: What’s big and bandy, and full of gigs? Clue: Turnstone is their new touchstone. A: Gigspanner Big Band!
Paul Brady – The Archive: Boxset Review
Brady unpacks his backpack of the obscure and arcane, off-cuts and live, for a pick and mix of myriad delights.
Flook – Sanju: Album Review
Flook fly back in a flurry of flirtatious flutery.
Rachael McShane & The Cartographers – Uncharted: Album Review
Rachael McShane and her cartographer friends show the way and have made another fine map.
Manchester Folk Festival: Live Review
We’re at Manchester Folk festival in the city’s Northern Quarter for a feast of folk and more…