Reviews

At Complete Ease

John Carty & Brian Rooney

Fiddler Brian Rooney first met banjoist John Carty in London in the early 1970s. At that time there was a...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

November

Annlaug

Annlaug Borsheim is a fiddler, guitarist and singer-songwriter from Norway, whose frequent journeys across the North Sea to explore and...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Hollie Cook

Hollie Cook

Music is in Hollie Cook's blood. Her father is Sex Pistols’ drummer Paul Cook. Having grown up in West London,...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Tãn

Lleuwen

Singer Lleuwen Steffan first made her mark in 2005 with Duw a Wyr (God Only Knows) an original, jazzy take...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Foxlight

larla Ó Lionáird

It's taken the County Cork-born former Afro Celts singer six years to follow up his staggeringly visceral Invisible Fields, which...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Liguriani

Liguriani

A strip of mixed people and sounds, Liguria lies in Italy's north-west, a region squeezed between rugged hill tops and...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Line-Up

Battlefield Band

Like Fairport Convention, Battle– field Band have a good four decades of music-making behind them, drawing on the rich heritage...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

How to Tune a Fish

Beoga

Just four years since the Irish band's debut A Lovely Madness comes Beoga's fourth album How to Tune a Fish...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Wayside Courtesies

Pilgrims’ Way

Formed in a pub under the Stockport viaduct, this rough and ready young trio interpret classics of the English folk...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Kalakan

Kalakan

In the Basque country, cider drinking is never so exciting as when the call to celebrate the new pressing is...

Reviewed in issue October/2011