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Yellowcard’s William Ryan Key and Swedish alt-rockers Normandie rocked London’s Boston Music Room last week. 20 years ago Yellowcard formed in Jacksonville, Florida and traded their Southern homes for the big city of Los Angeles in 2000 after they made it big with hits like Ocean Avenue and Lights and Sounds. This year the band’s vocalist William Ryan…
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Country To Country Festival 2018 just got a little bit bigger as Sugarland join the bill. CMA and Grammy award winners Sugarland are the latest band confirmed for next year’s country music festival C2C set to take place in London and Glasgow 9 until 11 March 2018. The set will mark the band’s first full-band…
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With their self-titled debut out now via Snakefarm Records, the quartet bring the party to London. Broken Witt Rebels stopped by Boston Music Room in Tufnell Park last week to play us a few tracks and bath us in their extremely catchy hooks. The band’s heavy tinge of Americana and Southern-style-infused rock sound in tunes…
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Lucie Silvas invited Charlie Worsham out on tour with her and it was a sound for sore ears (see what I did there!). Things I love about the UK country/folk/Americana scene is people discover new organically, hence audiences at smaller country shows are there because they genuinely enjoy the music and the artist rather than…
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English alt-rockers Deaf Havana have been touring the UK with a run of small shows, including a night at Cambridge Junction on Sunday. Earlier this month, Deaf Havana released an album of reworked tracks of their new record All These Countless Nights which featured more stripped back arrangements of the songs. On this Sunday night in Cambridge,…
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Hailing from the German capital, Beatsteaks blew the roof off of KOKO with their show on Friday night. Dear British punk fans – if you haven’t checked out Beatsteaks yet, I strongly urge you to do so. Their London show last week proved once again why they are so loved back home. A 24-track set…
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When London-based indie-folk duo Worry Dolls took over the Borderline it was smiles all around as with this much talent you can’t help but be happy. It is thoroughly enjoyable to see how many young, new folk and country bands have come out of the UK in the last few years. Worry Dolls are no…
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St.-John-at-Hackney provided a beautiful backdrop for Amy Macdonald’s London show this week. For her current tour, Glasgow singer-songwriter Amy Macdonald stripped back her songs to acoustic versions and delivered an absolute stunner of a show at a church in Shoreditch. “This is the real hipster London, you can’t just do a gig at a normal…
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On Sunday night, Chicago punk rockers Rise Against took over London’s O2 Academy Brixton with support from Sleeping With Sirens and PEARS. Kicking things off are hardcore punks PEARS from Louisiana with their loud and old school hardcore punk, providing a class A first support act that gets the crowd all riled-up for the night.…
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With special guest Charlie Worsham who’ll be touring the UK next week with Lucie Silvas. On Thursday evening, UK alt-country duo Two Ways Home hosted their monthly Round Up, a songwriters round at Gail’s Kitchen in central London. This edition featured Claydon Connor, Laura Evans and Alex Maile, Charlie Worsham and a pop-in from Zane…
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