Willie Nelson is the last gun in town and the outlaw country he built up with his bloody-fisted, tender-hearted cowboy friends is nothing more than a ghost town these days. Ryan Adams and alt-country took what they could and packed up their horses a couple of years back and Nashville…. […]

Over the past few years, there has been a move by some Brits to try out some of the foreign festivals on offer, and why not? Rather than traipse through muddy quagmires just to get to your mates’ tent, destroying various items of clothing (not to mention dignity) in the […]

‘Boys and Girls’ is a summer night spent battling a hard difficult heat with too much bourbon and not enough ice; it’s the slow romance of a Southern sunset with all the sweetness and sadness darkness brings and it burns in the way a goodbye kiss does.  Lead singer Brittany Howard croons to us […]

The annual music festival held in England, V Festival, sponsored by Virgin Media, is back this summer for its seventeenth year with legendary rock icons to perform on stage. The Mancunian band, the Stone Roses, are to headline on Saturday August 18th at Hylands Park, Chemsford, and Sunday August 19th […]

“What are you listening to right now?” The following list is my way of answering. I like to take a quick look back at the best songs released so far. Music comes at us so fast and furious that it can be hard to keep up, but these are the […]

Being as cynical as the next man, it’s taken me a long time to come to the conclusion that Britain’s Got Talent is a massive money making vehicle for Simon Cowell, with so little attention paid to the talent that it’s almost painful. The only glimpse of the talent we really […]

I am completely obsessed with Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant. In particular Audrey. I wake up every morning desperately hoping that I have transformed in the night, so that I look just like her, with her delicate features and cropped hair, but alas, it’s my face looking back at me. They both had […]

Ask the majority of people and you’ll hear them reply that music is an important part in their life and it normally will be true. However, has the importance been molded over the past two decades into something different from what it was in the 19th and early 20th centuries? […]