Live Reviews

Live Review: First Aid Kit @ London, Bush Hall

by Michael Farrant 14 December 2011 Features

Michael Farrant caught First Aid Kit at London’s Bush Hall last week. The noise of the audience reached ear-splitting volume as the sisters took to the stage…

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Live Review: Scots Trad Music Awards 2011

by Findlay Napier 8 December 2011 Live Reviews

Findlay Napier gives us a behind the scenes account of Scots Trad Music Awards 2011, the nearest thing Scottish folkies have to the office Christmas party!

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Live Review: Catherine MacLellan @ CCA, Glasgow

by Rachel Devine 21 November 2011 Live Reviews

Catherine MacLellan, one the finest voices in North American folk music, makes her first performance in Scotland. Rachel Devine was there for the prestigious gig.

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Anna Calvi @ Shepherd’s Bush Empire

by Melanie McGovern 9 November 2011 Live Reviews

Melanie Mcovern managed to catch Mercury nominee Anna Calvi at her sell out show at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire earlier this month.

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Yann Tiersen @ The Roundhouse

by Melanie McGovern 25 October 2011 Live Reviews

Melanie McGovern heads to the unique space at Camden’s Roundhouse for a performance by Yann Tiersen.

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Live Review: Sarah MacDougall

by Michael Farrant 21 October 2011 Live Reviews

Michael Farrant caught Sarah MacDougall on her album launch tour for ‘The Greatest Ones Alive’ in Norwich’s Tombland.

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Wilderness of Manitoba @ The Slaughtered Lamb

by Melanie McGovern 11 October 2011 Live Reviews

Melanie heads to the Slaughtered Lamb to catch Canada’s ‘Wilderness of Manitoba’ who put on a great show!

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Joseph Topping - Glenfarg Village Folk Club

Joseph Topping at Glenfarg Village Folk Club

by Neil McFadyen 7 October 2011 Live Reviews

Joseph Topping calls into the award winning Glenfarg Village Folk Club for a solo performance.

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Festival Review: End of the Road Festival 2011

Festival Review: End of the Road 2011

by Melanie McGovern 9 September 2011 Live Reviews

End of the Road festival yet again evaded the wet weather bookending it, and returned to the Larmer Tree gardens in Salisbury with a new layout, new ‘The Woods’ stage and perhaps its most varied line up yet.

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Live Review: Tasseomancy – C.A.M.P Basement

by Melanie McGovern 8 September 2011 Live Reviews

Last week’s Tasseomancy album release show at London venue CAMP exposed a short yet evocative set illuminating their talents as songwriters and songmakers, but more so as mood makers.

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Devon Sproule – Live at The Tabernacle

by Melanie McGovern 6 July 2011 Live Reviews

Devon Sproule’s latest recording ‘I Love You, Go Easy’ fleshes out the contemplative jazzy folk of this Ontario born and Virginia based musician, and her live performance at Notting Hill’s The Tabernacle, the perfect setting for these crisp, new arrangements and their personable lyricisms and vocals to take shape.

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Live Review: The Tallest Man on Earth – Cologne

by Judith Wiemers 26 May 2011 Live Reviews

Read Judith’s live Cologne review of The Tallest Man on Earth: The set features intense and assertive moments as much as reserved and tender ones, always reassuring the spectator that they are part of a wonderful evening that will stick with them.

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Live Review: Alela Diane @ Scala

by Melanie McGovern 25 May 2011 Live Reviews

Alela Diane has proven herself capable of a somewhat reinvention whilst never shedding her roots, and while her voice dazzled in its powerful country twangs and intonations, it was often the softer spoken plaintive tones that resonated more deeply.

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Josh T Pearson @ Union Chapel

by Melanie McGovern 18 May 2011 Live Reviews

Given the paralysing despair of his debut solo recording Last of the Country Gentlemen, Josh T Pearson’s live persona is a pretty chirpy guy in contrast to his recorded portrait of a lonesome folk troubadour.

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Bill Callahan live @ The Barbican

by Melanie McGovern 11 May 2011 Live Reviews

In contrast to a career spanning two decades and over a dozen recorded albums – including those as his earlier moniker Smog – to his name, Bill Callahan is a man of surprising few words onstage. It’s forgivable however, as captured in his dry wit and deep seated vocal wisdom are enough tales of surrealist simplicity to make up.

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Dan Haywood’s New Hawks & A Hawk and a Hacksaw live at XOYO

by Melanie McGovern 3 May 2011 Live Reviews

Dan Haywood’s New Hawks set comprised of songs which flitted between folky laments, coupled with intricate Celtic fiddle from two onstage violinists, to more bizarre and lightly psychedelic flirtations which would see Haywood stand nicely (though perhaps uneasily) beside David Thomas Broughton’s spontaneous, alternative folk performances.

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