I caught Jonny & The Baptists’ show last year at the Edinburgh Fringe when I was on the panel of the Amused Moose Comedy Awards. It was, deservedly, on the short-list. Back then you could see the potential for some of...
Read MoreToday I came across an extraordinary song written by a musician from Newfoundland called Wince Coles. Aunt Daisy’s Pussy Cat is ostensibly about a pensioner who owns 19 cats but, a verse or two in, it becomes blindingly...
Read MoreThey have been described as ‘Elbow for seafarers and ramblers’ and have made a name for themselves as electro-folk storytellers. Ahead of their new album, All Life is Here, Ramsbottom-based Harp and a Monkey talk to...
Read MoreSpeaking over the phone from her home in Cornwall, Martha Tilston commences the interview by ushering her two small daughters away. Music is marbled right through Tilston’s family. Her father, Steve Tilston, is himself a...
Read MoreMark Radcliffe’s self-confessed career highlight came in 2006 when he won Celebrity Stars In Their Eyes with a suspiciously Cornish-sounding Shane MacGowan. It’s not a bad claim to fame for a Bolton-born DJ,...
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