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…
This record feels like Hiss Golden Messenger (the alias used by M.C Taylor) has just picked up where it left off with it’s majestic 2014 album Lateness of Dancers. This record is filled with the same wonder and magic as…
Tonight’s performance from The Divine Comedy is one of two halves or, at least, two costumes. The first outfit that Neil Hannon sports is the bowler-hatted businessman, complete with folded umbrella and starched white shirt. Consistent with the outfit Hannon…
Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker return with their fifth full-length album together (though one is just credited to Clarke) and fans of the previous efforts together will not be disappointed by this one either. To these ears, Clarke has one…
In Great Britain, Kate Rusby is nothing short of a national treasure, yet stateside she remains a largely unheard commodity. 14 albums in, her 24-year career has set an unrivaled standard for quality. Life In A Paper Boat does nothing…