On the 25th November 2013, London-based record label and gig promoter Communion put on a gig in the basement of the Slaughtered Lamb pub, Clerkenwell. Headlining for the first time was a young man called James Bay. Tonight, three years…
The last time I saw Nathaniel Rateliff it was February the 1st 2014, at the Louisiana. He was touring in support of what would turn out to be his final full length solo release (for now at least) Falling Faster…
I first came across Rachael Yamagata a few years ago, through a Noisetrade sampler. I was into American girls with guitars at the time, so I downloaded. I listened. I deleted. “Vanilla,” I thought – there was nothing there to…
There’s a gentle revolution brewing and Will Varley is at the heart of it. With little more than a guitar and a song he’s changing the game and recreating a vocabulary that was going out of style. Kingsdown Sundown is…
The stage is crowded like a primary school nativity play where every kid has necessarily been given a role. It’s the culmination of a celebratory night of revolving cast members and cameos, with This Is The Kit beginning their final…
Folk royalty, that’s what Loudon Wainwright III is. As the father of musicians Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche and former husband of the late folksinger Kate McGarrigle, he has musical pedigree. Like Red Rum with a banjo.…
In that special late October lull when the days gather a brooding scowl, the evenings swell and the landscape outside of town waits with electric expectation for the spectral touch of Halloween, a cold breeze skits the fallen leaves and…
On Monday 24 October, the Islington Assembly Hall welcomed Lisa Hannigan and her band, touring to promote her long-awaited new album At Swim. By 8pm, the hall was already filling up. First on stage was Portland singer/songwriter Heather Woods Broderick,…
Space, place, and time clearly matter to Tom Brosseau. That is why the Albion Beatnik was a fitting space for his thoughtful and gentle performance on the 22nd of October. The Oxford bookstore describes itself as “enthusiastic” and “eclectic”, and…
Tanner Porter is an artist who can capture the listener’s attention with ease. Her voice can reach far and wide and The Summer Sinks… is a good representation of her abilities and potential to grow and blossom. It isn’t perfect…