I’ve listened to a lot of music this year, as every year. A year ago on Dec 23rd I was halfway across the world en route to spending Christmas and New Year in New Zealand, I wote this from a Best Western in Stoke-on-Trent about to attend a Christmas wedding on the edge of the ...

Had I known Andy Stock was opening up I’d have arrived twenty minutes earlier. If anyone deserves support at the moment, it’s him. Not only that, but the man has the most glorious, soulful voice which I was gutted to only hear three minutes of. Clearly, the vast majority of the one hundred or more ...

Since first witnessing Acoustic Ladyland at a CuRioSiTy night at Kyps a couple of years back, and subsequently putting them on in front of a packed and particularly excited Gander crowd, I can’t remember another band who have impressed me more on a local live stage. The fact that their first (and only) date in ...