May 20BILLIE EILISH – HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: REVIEWBILLIE EILISH Hit Me Hard And Soft (Interscope/Universal) OH I SAY, that’s a bit bold. This is turning into a very fine year for pop...
May 19STRANGE IS MY MIDDLE NAME: A PLAYLISTBorn under a bad sign, grown under a killing moon, lived through stormy weather. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN MORE! Look for omens, oddities and...
May 16BETH GIBBONS – LIVES OUTGROWN: REVIEWBETH GIBBONS Lives Outgrown (Domino) IN FILM NOIR AND BETH GIBBONS, who once seemed the quintessential soundtrack of the genre, it was...
May 15SINS, STRINGS AND STOIC WINS – A VILLAGERS STORY part two“HOW CAN YOU HAVE aspirational ideas about yourself and the world around you, whilst being confronted with a harsh, cold reality? The...
May 14DIDO DO OVER? DON’T DEPEND ON WIND BACK WEDNESDAYIt may seem perverse, after a few days in town where Martha Wainwright and Angie McMahon were powerful and brilliant and in no way...
May 14ANGIE MCMAHON – LIVE: REVIEWANGIE MCMAHON Sydney Opera House, May 12 WHO? HERE? HOW? It may be surprising to some that Angie McMahon has almost surreptitiously...
May 13MARTHA WAINWRIGHT – LIVE: REVIEWMARTHA WAINWRIGHT City Recital Hall, May 10 Martha Wainwright lied. Straight out lied to our faces. She was, she said, not at her best...
May 12LET NO MAN STEAL YOUR THYME: A PLAYLISTNor indeed any of your herbs, spices and other fruits of the land. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN Harvest more natural gifts of playlists like this...
May 9FOR VILLAGERS IT’S GOODBYE TECH, HELLO PRETTY BOY FLOYDCONOR O’BRIEN GREETS ME in bright sunlight, slightly hunched in his chair and haloed by the Dublin sun. “It is a strangely warm Irish...