Andrew Curry writes: I like Oysterband well enough. I think I first heard them playing Liberty Hall on a compilation called Square Roots, from Folk Roots magazine, which I bought from Rough Trade in around 1987, when they were still... Read more →
June 2024 update Bill made Greg Quill his Artist of the Week at the Salut! Live Facebook group ... Join the Salut! Live Facebook group. Visit this link now Prepare to meet a bar with as bad a name as... Read more →
On St Patrick’s night, I was privileged to be present (as Gerry Logue's guest) at an excellent and enthusiastically received performance by Three Men and a Dog at the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith, west London. There is more on... Read more →
Andrew Curry is a neglectful music website editor's dream. He comes up with ideas for which gigs he should review, pays his own way there and into the venue and files his articles as promptly, cleanly and engagingly as if... Read more →
To reach the little music venue I love most of all from, say, Piccadilly Circus, there’s a choice to be made. It’s a short walk but this part of central London is invariably busy. Accept that reality and just weave... Read more →
A few days before the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, we took our 13-year-old granddaughter, Maya, to Windsor. In truth, the castle, flags, bunting and stately emblems left her cold until we chanced on a Reuters broadcast crew interviewing a suitably costumed... Read more →
