Following the release of last year’s Easy Fantastic, Tom Williams moored The Boat for a pair of solo ventures. New Guitar was released in March, and New House will follow on October 23rd, along with a deluxe version combining both…
It’s hard to mention Hansard without talking about his greatest moment to date - the film Once. It was a stunning film, a modern cult classic, and a perfect platform for Hansard and Marketa Irglova’s to display their musical and…
Gone are the loud guitars and feedback squalls of Hawley’s last album Standing At The Sky’s Edge and back is Hawley’s classic sound. His voice is ageing, beautifully – smoking may be taking its toll but somehow the damage done…
When I first heard The Lake Poets, otherwise known as the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Martin Longstaff, he was playing his guitar onstage at one of Newcastle’s best venues (in my humble opinion), the Cluny. The demo of ‘Windowsill’, which…
Having toured for much of the summer in support of their album Bonxie, released in April, Stornoway provide a matching bookend to close their travelling schedule by releasing a six-track acoustic companion piece shorn of the denser instrumentation and frequent…
Dear readers, We Come Alive has been on sabbatical this summer since our last cracking show in June. We have been on tour in Italy, at four music festivals, and a snuck in a holiday too. Now we are ready…