The brilliant Patch & the Giant are blogging for us at the moment. They’re a London-based 7-piece who play raucous, jubilant folk and the band host a show at the Boogaloo every month. In their show they tell us about…
Light the Boats, released September of this year, is Gill Sandell’s second album since her well received 2010 debut Tarry Awhile. If Sandell hadn’t already established herself as one hell of a singer/songwriter, Light the Boats certainly sets it in…
There are certain songs that catch you at just the right time and shape the way you experience and appreciate music forever. Elliott Smith’s Waltz #2 (XO) is a song that did that to a host of impressionable music lovers…
Patch and the Giant are a harmonising, foot-stomping, roof-raising seven piece folk band based in London. They run monthly shows at the Boogaloo in Highgate, North London, which always have fabulous line-ups. In this, her second installment, we’ve asked Angie…
Well this is not the song we meant to bring you. We’ve spent today trawling the internet for a recording of ‘If God Did Give Me The Choice’ by this same band. And while we’re pretty impressed by this cover…
The first thing that usually springs to mind when we think of Brazilian music is the hedonistic party vibe of the Samba tunes which soundtrack Rio’s Carnival. But evincing an altogether gentler, sweeter, more introspective side of the country’s musical…