Reading time: 3 minutesReaders might recall that for quite some time I have been championing a brand new venue in Oldham, Greater Manchester – ‘The Loom’ – as
Reading time: 2 minutesSlagger Lund opened his public relations message concerning his new single, ‘Whiskas in the Jar (til en ven)’ [translation: ‘for a friend] with the observation
Reading time: 2 minutesWe often talk in this business of ‘atmosphere’ and of those who excel at creating it. High up in that particular pantheon is Denmark’s peripatetic
Reading time: 2 minutesWhen I was a kid, whenever we returned to school after the summer break we’d be required to write an essay on “what we did
Reading time: 2 minutesIt’s almost two years ago now that Mari Boine last featured in these pages, with a song, ‘Lean dás’, which we described as “sort of
Reading time: 2 minutesJosefin Öhrn was in the psych band Josefin Öhrn & the Liberation who were nominated for a Swedish Grammy for Best New Artist. After a
Reading time: < 1 minuteIt all sounds a little mysterious doesn’t it? A band name that suggests wartime subterfuge, or the response plan to a biological and chemical attack.
