Audrey Spillman - Neon Dream | Self Release Neon Dream is the second full length solo album by the Nashville-based singer-songwriter Audrey Spillman, the title of which appears in a lyric less than a minute into the lead song “Austin Motel”, a song that recalls an important and special time in the singer’s burgeoning relationship … Continue reading Issue 13

Martha Wainwright - Love Will Be Reborn | Cooking Vinyl There’s nothing quite like the subject of love to get one’s creative juices flowing, yet strangely enough, the subject of divorce, the other end of the emotional pole, equally engages the pen in terms of art, poetry and songwriting.  Martha Wainwright’s latest album, her fifth … Continue reading Issue 12

Joe Troop - Borrowed Time | Free Dirt Records There are just two letters of difference between the surname of ‘Troop’ and that of Joe’s chief adversary, yet the two men are world’s apart in terms of ideology and personality.  Joe Troop has spent a good deal of the last couple of years campaigning for … Continue reading Issue 11

Josienne Clarke - A Small Unknowable Thing | Corduroy Punk A few years ago I was tasked once again with the job of introducing several acts at the Wath Festival, the long running music event tucked away in the Dearne Valley.  One of the eagerly awaited acts to appear over the weekend was a popular … Continue reading Issue 10

Chris Cleverley - Live From the Glass Isle | Self Release It really can’t be overstated just how difficult it has been over the last fifteen months or so for singers and musicians around the globe, whose lives (and livelihoods) have been deeply affected, when standing in front of audiences was almost always something they … Continue reading Issue 9

Lady Nade - Willing | Self Release It seems that every once in a while a voice comes along to stop us in our tracks, a voice that manages to convey just the right emotion for each of the songs; one moment deep and soulful, the next breathy and wistful. The third album by the … Continue reading Issue 8

Rachel Baiman - Cycles | Signature Sounds Recordings It may well have been two events that marked the beginning of Rachel Baiman’s latest album release Cycles, the birth of a nephew and the loss of a grandmother.  Birth and death are two highly personal moments in anyone’s life, something most of us are all too … Continue reading Issue 7

Martin Simpson | Live Feature | The Live Room, Caroline Street Social Club, Saltaire West Yorkshire | Words and Photos by Keith Belcher “I cannot tell you how much it means to me to stand on a stage and remind myself of who I am...” so said Martin Simpson just before the encore to his … Continue reading Issue 6

Eli West - Tapered Point of Stone | Self Release Eli West is perhaps best known for his work as part of a successful duo with Cahalen Morrison, whose fine dove-tailed musical empathy has impressed many an audience over the past few years and for good reason.  Here though, West goes it alone, albeit with … Continue reading Issue 5

Christina Alden and Alex Patterson - Hunter | Self Release The debut album by Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, a fine duo from the heart of Norwich, is probably even better than I initially expected it to be.  I fully expected it to be good, but perhaps not quite this good.  The unique sound that … Continue reading Issue 4