Scour the lyric sheet of Julia Jacklin‘s debut album blind and you’d fancy a life lived longer, certainly, if not richer. But the Australian, in her mid-twenties [...]
Jess Williamson sits, checks the tuning of her guitar, takes a sip of her wine, and begins to sing. ‘Say It’, her stinging opener, is a blackened thing in its [...]
Folk’s gentile stereotype – witness Viz’s old cartoon The Folkie – belies the intensity it can muster in the hands of skilled practitioners. Arriving at Colston Hall, [...]
What if there was a revolution and no-one came? It happened, once. 20 years ago, it was possible to go and see Kathleen Hanna play in the upstairs room of a pub to an [...]
It’s a full 20 years since Mrs W&G last tried to see Black Grape. On that occasion, undisclosed – although easy to surmise – backstage issues meant they [...]
It needn’t be rocket science. Announce a show at 10.30am. Open the box office at midday. Ask ticket buyers to bring along a band t-shirt, record or some other item of [...]
“I have to tell you, Manchester – I’m slightly shit-faced.” That’s just four songs in: heroic by anyone’s standards. Nerina Pallot grins, shrugs, [...]
Just hours before her band play their first show in twenty years, Emma Anderson perhaps speaks for them all when she tweets her pre-gig state of mind: [...]
Like a patchwork wizard descending from on high, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry (sort of) comes home. The scene of almost Biblical floods a few months ago, the Lake [...]