After making their international debut at the Cambridge Folk Festival last summer, Darlingside have now played in England more times than anywhere else in the past year, including their hometown of Boston, Massachusetts. This summer’s tour included a quick stop…
In advance of the release of his second EP Bathing Beach, Novo Amor returned to London’s beautiful Hoxton Hall. Opening the evening was singer-songwriter Blanco White, who wowed the audience with his delicately constructed songs. Having studied the Spanish guitar…
For someone who has been on the same tour since 1988, it seems strange that the London Palladium is a venue that Bob Dylan had never played before these three shows. Even in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Dylan said…
If Keston Cobblers Club are a name you are unfamiliar with, I strongly advise you to remedy this. One of the best unheralded acts in the UK in 2017, the 5 Kent based 5 piece (Matthew and Julia Lowe, Bethan…
Some going out ideas for the next 4 weeks. Michael Baker Thu 18 May The Plenty Brighton, England Sat 20 May Jubilee Gardens Brighton, England Pokey LaFarge Fri 5 May The Courtyard Theatre London…
Emerging from the darkness, Loudon Wainwright III walks on stage strumming his guitar in the darkness. Lights come up on a stage set with a chair and a circular table with three water glasses. Behind is a video screen. A…
Hannah Trigwell is a singer-songwriter who has garnered much popularity through YouTube and other social media. Starting out busking on the streets of her home town of Leeds, she began recording cover songs for YouTube and eventually releasing her own…
“I had no identity… I was socially bankrupt,” said Laura Marling in a recent interview. The question of identity is an intriguing one in the case of the chameleonic Marling, who has recently released her sixth studio album, Semper Femina,…
Following the successful release of his debut album, Last Smoke Before the Snowstorm, five years ago, Benjamin Francis Leftwich unexpectedly vacated the spotlight. His sudden departure in 2013 to grieve the devastating loss of his father lasted three tumultuous years.…
The idea of reviewing of Stornoway’s last gig of their farewell tour, in the town where they built their career strikes me as inappropriate. It’s like trying to review any sort of local, natural, beautiful, beloved phenomenon in Oxford. One…