How thrilling it must be to find treasure when you’re not looking for it. To throw a stone into a...
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Gavin McNamara is an English teacher that loves writing about music. Or a music writer that loves teaching English. Definitely one of those. Over the years he's written for lots of people, from the Big Issue (SW) to Metal Hammer and, before teaching, worked in independent music distribution for too many years.
Tribute albums are tricky things, aren’t they? For every Famous Blue Raincoat, there’s a hideous Beatles-sung-by-dogs album, for every Dinah...
If there is one thing that we know for certain around these parts it is that, ironically, traditions have to...
Do people still send postcards? Do people still send a tiny, scribbled thought out to the ones they love? Do...
As we take that headlong plunge through the late parts of the year, things can get a bit depressing. Going...
Last week, we brought you the inside track on the making of In Winter, the new seasonal album The Unthanks....
In this season of gaudy whizz-bangs and empty explosions in the sky, how good is it to find something that...
The way that Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, squeezebox player with Granny’s Attic, tells it, his interest in the crossover between English folk...
It’s been four years since Anna and Rowan Rheingans last released an album, 2020’s brilliant Receiver, and in that time...
Jon Doran is back with a new EP and a new line up as Jon Doran and the Northern Assembley.
Frankie Archer is not just the most exciting thing to happen to folk music for years, she is one of the most exciting artists in any genre right now.
Originally released in the early part of this year as a Bandcamp-only download, Angeline Morrison’s third solo album, Ophelia, gets...
