What Are You Miscreants up to This Weekend, Then?

So, plans, people, plans.  What are they, what’s going on, what am I missing out on?  Tonight, despite the blazing sunshine and hugely inviting back garden I shall be indoors, with the shutters and the curtains firmly closed, recording the guitar bits for what is probably going to be the next release on Song, by [...]

Joe Pug - Nation of Heat

Well there’s not much to say about this.  It’s not different, it’s not wildly innovative, it’s not… well never mind that.  It’s pointless listing what it isn’t, better focus on what it is.
Well it is acoustic, bluesy singer-songwriting delivered in one of those rough, slightly nasal voices that have been pretty much de rigeur in [...]

Modernaire & the Culture of Ownership

I got an email a couple of days ago from Ruth. You may not think you know who Ruth is, but I bet you do really: she is in two of my favourite recent discoveries, The Moulettes and Modernaire. In fact, the only reason I know about Modernaire in the first place is [...]