In December 1968, the former Jefferson Airplane drummer and Moby Grape guitarist, Skip Spence, checked himself out of a mental institution and motorcycled to Nashville to record his solo album, Oar, in four days, before disappearing back into pharmaceutical oblivion. In 1972, the manic depressive English folk rocker Nick Drake silently abandoned the master tapes…
‘Forget house music, the truly hip have moved on…to folk,” predicted the style magazines a year or so ago, probably as an excuse to run some shots of heroin-addled waifs dressed up as Morris dancers. The folk revival never happened, of course, but Eliza Carthy, at 22 the youngest recording artist of the venerable Waterson-Carthy…
Guitarist Billy Jenkins’s new release, True Love Collection, a set of seven 1970s pop standards, has more in common with Vic Reeves’snovelty cash-in record I Will Cure You than with any of the innovative music he’s made in the past two decades. “Well, I’m getting older and trying to cross over a bit more to…
‘Since 1992 it has again been possible to discuss without whispering the music of 1969-1976,” writes King Crimson’s Robert Fripp in the sleeve notes to the recently issued early-1970s live collection The Night Watch. “But I offer no apology for the transparently pratty music played by young dopes wearing satin.” Who does he mean, exactly?…
There is a new wave of young American “alternative country” bands daring to re-evaluate their national music heritage. Nashville pedal steel guitars now sit easily in the kind of independently minded acts that would once have considered them heresy. They draw in fans old enough to remember country rock’s first wave of the Byrds and…
Late last month, Cecil Sharp House, the English Folk song Society HQ in Regent’s Park, hosted the UK debut for Rex and Rachel’s, twin leading lights of a hardy hybrid strain of American post-rock dynamics and folk classical sensibilities. A 500-strong crowd on plastic seating saw Rachel’s showcase last year’s essential Sea & the Bells…
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Len Firewood, Twitter
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Liam Travitt, Twitter
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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Aiden Hearn, Twitter
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Anon, westhamonline.com
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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Peter Fears, Twitter
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Dave Wilson, Chortle.com
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Cabluigi, Guardian.co.uk
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Wharto15, Twitter
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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Meninblack, Twitter
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Emilyistrendy, Youtube
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John Robins, Comedian
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Lucinda Locketts, Twitter
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Neolab, Guardian.co.uk
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Pirate Crocodile, Twitter
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Tres Ryan, Twitter
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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Sam Rooney, Youtube
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Ishamayura Byrd, Twitter
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Lents, redandwhitekop.com
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Slothy Matt, Twitter
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Alwyn, Digiguide.tv
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