Having teased us with the release of three EPs over the last few years, London-based Mersey-born folk artist Robin Elliott finally drops his long-awaited debut album ‘There Is A Land’ later this month. Produced by renowned folk artist Ben Walker,…
All is calm and all is bright backstage at St Pancras Old Church as Izzie Yardley lays her guitar in its case and sits. “Matt’s audience is lovely,” she says, smiling. Inside the chapel, we can hear the buoyant mood…
Rating: After much deliberation – and while eschewing the stylings and mindless attitudinising of the pop mainstream – the identical twin brothers from Auchtermuchty, The Proclaimers, have returned with fife and drum to further their own brand of Scottish folk-rock….
If there is one avatar that has managed to lodge itself in our collective consciousness in the post-war decades, it is that of the lone troubadour, a guitar slung across his midriff, his neck craned, leaning into the microphone, alone…
Southend-based songwriter Davey Hal has released his debut album Materials Logic; and it’s an experimental, unusual, but beautiful first offering. Not many records can fuse Jazz, Folk, and alternative concepts together effectively; but on Materials Logic Davey seems to have found a…
For over a decade now a diverse spectrum of topics have been chosen to form the backbone of Frank Turner songs. From sailors to tattoos, from rivers to Shakespeare, Frank has tackled it all. This set at Warrington’s Parr Hall…
It’s been over four years since we last caught up with The Low Anthem in Liverpool. In stunning, understated fashion they put on one of the most memorable shows we’d witnessed at The Kazimier. Yet frontman Ben Knox Miller dejectedly…
Ever look at your favourite musician in complete awe and just wonder WHERE that voice comes from? Enter extremely modest Australian singer-songwriter Matt Corby: a man of few words in-between songs in a very, very warm Village Underground in Shoreditch. But an absolute…
Rating: Lou Rhodes‘ amused, gimlet eyes are the giveaway. She’s on to something, they impute, lifting up and away from the promotional photography, fixing you with a keenness to tell that she is no ordinary chanteuse in pursuit of her fifteen…
Irish singer-songwriter Maria Kelly has spent many years perfecting her delicate folk sound. Having been writing music since the age of ten, Kelly has now been receiving acclaim after playing gigs with the likes of Wyvern Lingo and Gigslutz favourites,…