Whenever I interview Kate Rusby, her fear of flying crops up sooner or later. I am not well placed to offer reassurance. My earliest flights were the stuff of nightmares: rickety little plane from Blackpool (I think) to the Isle... Read more →
Show of Hands are touring some of England’s architectural treasures. That is the good news. The bad, for admirers of this duo - actually a trio these days given the welcome inclusion of Miranda Sykes - is that some dates... Read more →
Pretty much everyone who entered, or they would be if I had enough prizes to go round. Each memory or anecdote brought back my own recollections of seeing Maddy Prior when she toured with Tim Hart as a duo, the... Read more →
Picture: Tyler Cartner Chris Foster Outsiders (Green Man Productions) If Maddy Prior's new album took me back to an encounter on the fringes of a folk club, Chris Foster succeeds in dragging me inside - even if his CD is... Read more →
Salut! Live announces the return of something like a proper service..... reviews are important to a site like this, but remember always that the writer claims to be no more than a fan with a platform. First up is Maddy... Read more →
