That's it Folks
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The journey complete. Destination reached. Mission accomplished. Around 1000 reviews since 2012 and a race now run. Pastures new ahead, with music still to the core, albeit a different focus. Archives intact until Google decide to crash this platform. Farewell, so long and keep it real, authentic and live. We will never know whether it was the journey or the destination. However, two things are certain, there are more than three chords, but the truth is always singular ..read more
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2019: KEEPING MUSIC LIVE (Top 20 Favourite Gigs)
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It's been a tradition since 2012. So that annual trawl through the gig diary to add a quantitative aspect to the live music experience continues for another year. Also the ritual of honouring those who take gig-going to extraordinary levels is upheld and their presence does as much as any insider to keep the wheels of live music active away from the realms of the public eye. Anyway, from a list that fluctuates from year to year, here are the twenty shows that rose to the fore to shape the gig year of 2019. 1. Lucinda Williams - Birmingham Town Hall 2. The Delines - St.John the Evangelist ..read more
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2019: THE SOUNDTRACK (Top 20 Favourite albums)
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If you are anti end of year lists then feel free to move on (but cheers for the curiosity click). To get this far there must be some minuscule of interest to what albums came from an exhaustive pile to create most interest and ultimate enjoyment throughout the year. Maybe art should not be a contest, but rules of the game suggest otherwise each December in these pages. So here goes, the favourite albums (please do not use the term 'best' until you have listened to every single release) of 2019 1. Miranda Lambert - Wildcard 2. The Highwomen - The Highwomen 3. Yola - Walk Through Fire 4. The ..read more
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GIG REVEIW: My Darling Clementine - Kitchen Garden, Kings Heath, Birmingham. Sunday 22nd December 2019
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It's fitting that the final review to appear on these pages is a previous recipient of the prestigious 'Favourite Gig of the Year' award. My Darling Clementine took the honours in 2013, and have since become regular review subjects with successive albums and a handful of other shows. It is also fitting that the final review is from the Kitchen Garden, a venue the scene of gigs well into three figures since the first published piece back in 2012. Not all gig reviews have come from sold out shows (that is not always a prime driver for a successful night), but it is nice to see the 'house full ..read more
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GIG REVIEW: Danni Nicholls - Kitchen Garden, Kings Heath, Birmingham. Tuesday 10th December 2019
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Danni Nicholls crowned a successful year with a second visit to Birmingham and a third set seen when you throw her Long Road festival appearance into the mix. This is in addition to the release of her latest album THE MELTED MORNING, which has been rapturously received in ever expanding horizons. The Kitchen Garden has been a regular dropping off haunt for Danni since first discovering it a few years ago and this evening's show saw her at her usual best, filling the gaps between the excellent songs with much valued insight into their inception, collaboration and inspiration. As the decade d ..read more
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GIG REVIEW: The Small Glories - Kitchen Garden, Kings Heath, Birmingham. Tuesday 3rd December 2019
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Cara Luft has built a loyal UK fan network, following the many tours she had undertaken over the years. On one of her several visits to Birmingham a few years back she introduced a new touring partner in the guise of fellow Canadian JD Edwards, which in effect was the embryonic stages of a brand new duo being born. Since that January evening at the Kitchen Garden in 2014, The Small Glories have gone from strength to strength on the back of a couple of album releases, signing to a US label and continual touring around the world including a successful stint in Australia. Perhaps it is the latte ..read more
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GIG REVIEW: Bella Hardy - Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham. Saturday 16th November 2019
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2019 is an active yet reflective year for Bella Hardy. The acclaimed English folk singer-songwriter has been in a non-stop cycle of music making, tours, album releases and innovative projects for close on twenty years. Maybe the time to take stock, and reflect on a back catalogue of an album count nearly in double figures and a recording song catalogue pushing three figures. It is certainly prolific output for a artist only in their mid thirties While not ready to step away from the limelight, she has taken a carefully selected twenty five songs from the catalogue, added a couple of news ones ..read more
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GIG REVIEW: The Remedy Club + Hope in High Water - Kitchen Garden, Kings Heath, Birmingham. Monday 11th November 2019
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The Remedy Club A quick check in the gig archives revealed it was only February and April last year when Hope in High Water and The Remedy Club respectively made their last visits to the Kitchen Garden. Maybe the crazy amount of gigs in the intervening period made these shows feel a lot longer ago. Roughly eighteen months since both duos last dropped into Kings Heath has seen developments move quickly to the point where one has a new album, and the other will not be too far behind on the evidence revealed during this appearance. This gig was part of a run of dates arranged in liaison with the ..read more
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GIG REVIEW: The Delines - St.John the Evangelist, Oxford. Saturday 9th November 2019
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Three assertions from this evening: Willy Vlautin and Amy Boone are exclusively compatible vehicles for each others art; the sedative-induced brass element gives the sound a more jazz than soulful feel, and The Delines are immense at magnifying a heavily curated album style in a live setting. Every column inch and word of mouth praise accrued in 2019 on the back of releasing THE IMPERIAL at the beginning of the year came to fruition at this sold out Oxford gig. Sheer class oozed from the stage as we were firmly reminded that it may be late in the calender year but pure polished gems can appea ..read more
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ALBUM REVIEW: Ags Connolly - Wrong Again
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Don’t judge art by the cover, the saying intimates, but maybe in this instance the image goes a long way to dictating the outcome of the latest album from Ags Connolly. The simplicity is striking from the front and back poses of our esteemed country troubadour sitting proudly and independently in the homely confines of his local. Exqusiitely profound and without a single air of pretence, WRONG AGAIN comes across as a singular aim of pursuing the holy grail of making music as close to an ideal as is possible. This album tramples over borders and any bow to consensus or evolution. Ags Connolly ..read more
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