Thoughts on music

I have long harboured a love for the EP as a means for an artist or band to get early release of their work. In the last decade the format has seen a truly incredible renaissance. This is an asto...

http://rpgreenhalgh.blogspot.com/2018/12/new-music-2018-part-29-waterside-under.html

The prospect of another rather autumnal weekend and the fact that the outdoor festival season has well and truly ended, was leavened this morning by the arrival of a CD in the post. It has been o...

http://rpgreenhalgh.blogspot.com/2018/10/new-music-2018-part-28-willows-through.html

'Projection' is the brand new release by duo Sinnober based in Frome, Somerset. It follows their 2016 release 'Little Wars'. Sinnober - Projection (self-released,  1 October 2018). One ...

http://rpgreenhalgh.blogspot.com/2018/10/new-music-part-27-sinnober-projection.html

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde in a horrid way: To miss one new release by an artist you like might count as misfortune. To miss two in six months is just careless. I am however totally guilty as char...

http://rpgreenhalgh.blogspot.com/2018/09/mew-music-2018-part-26-kendel-carson.html

Listening to embargoed new music, not yet available to the public for some weeks, is a privilege and somewhat scary at the same time. It feels to me like driving a vehicle that I have no previou...

http://rpgreenhalgh.blogspot.com/2018/09/new-music-2018-part-25-carson-mchone.html

Times From Times Fall is the second full length release by Scottish folk four-piece Fara, all of whom are from Orkney, and is the follow-up to 'Cross the Line' (2016) that I mentioned here . All...

http://rpgreenhalgh.blogspot.com/2018/09/new-music-2018-part-24-fara-times-from.html

If there is a discernible thread to this post then it is that it encapsulates why I like festivals so much. I treasure the ability to explore music I might like, a result of the one ticket for e...

http://rpgreenhalgh.blogspot.com/2018/08/green-man-2018-few-thoughts.html

Earlier this month and in this post I expressed a desire to see a quintet of US-based female indie rock acts live across a pair of UK festivals - Green Man and End Of The Road . As I am at home...

http://rpgreenhalgh.blogspot.com/2018/08/earlier-this-month-and-in-this-post-i.html

This is an album that, having seen the artist behind it live several times, I have been waiting upon for some time. It is her first full length and it follows on from the 2016 Tide and Time EP th...

http://rpgreenhalgh.blogspot.com/2018/08/new-music-2018-part-23-kitty-macfarlane.html

It's been a while since I did one of these posts but I have to say it is always on my mind. The thing is that it just takes a little something to get started. In this case it is the realisation t...

http://rpgreenhalgh.blogspot.com/2018/08/a-musical-journey.html

There is a total change of tack for this post. We head over to Austin, Texas and the realm of US folk and, in passing, something of a dynasty in that regard. This is the latest from Eliza Gilkyso...

http://rpgreenhalgh.blogspot.com/2018/07/new-music-2018-part-22-eliza-gilkerson.html

Just as summer in the UK seems to have gone AWOL for the weekend comes the release of this gem from Australia, where it is winter, but that's just fine!  It's almost as if it had been organised ...

http://rpgreenhalgh.blogspot.com/2018/07/new-music-2018-part-21-phantastic.html

Now this was fun! A band that I have seen before, at Truck Festival 2016, returned with a new album in tow and played two full sets within the space of 24 hours.  I saw all of both of those. Th...

http://rpgreenhalgh.blogspot.com/2018/07/new-music-2018-part-20-kick-out-twang.html

Two three-day festivals down and still three to go! One of the great things about festivals is the expectation of seeing favourite artists once again. The other, perhaps more exciting still, is ...

http://rpgreenhalgh.blogspot.com/2018/07/festivals-truck-festival-2018-and-other.html

Back in the cold, dark days of January I started to think about festivals again. Even the wet days of the previous summer's shows somehow seemed less discouraging after four months or so. I had a...

http://rpgreenhalgh.blogspot.com/2018/07/beardy-folk-festival-2018.html

I have taken a month off blogging but that certainly doesn't mean that I haven't been listening; be that recorded or live. I spent a wonderful three days at a brand new folk festival last weekend...

http://rpgreenhalgh.blogspot.com/2018/06/new-music-2018-part-19-im-all-ears-lets.html

It's never been rare that I feature artists from Canada performing in the folk, roots and Americana space. This is another one of them - the artist here hails from from Grande Prairie, Alberta. ...

http://rpgreenhalgh.blogspot.com/2018/05/new-music-2018-part-18-living-room.html

Acoustic. Bluegrass. Instrumental. I know that this isn't going to please everyone that happens upon it. I don't care about that. I like this. It is my blog. Hawktail - Unless (Padiddle ...

http://rpgreenhalgh.blogspot.com/2018/05/new-music-2018-part-17-hawktail-unless.html

Next in my 'Spring Homework' series about artists that I have never seen live before and inspired by the artists appearing at festivals that I am attending this summer. This is one from the progr...

http://rpgreenhalgh.blogspot.com/2018/05/festivals-2018-must-see-part-2-joana.html

Right. It is time to jump in and mention the artists and acts that I want to see at the festivals that I am attending this summer. This post is just one from the first of those festivals. The rul...

http://rpgreenhalgh.blogspot.com/2018/05/festivals-2018-must-see-part-1.html

In previous years I have been rather lax about doing pre-festival homework aimed at investigating acts and artists about which I have little or no existing knowledge. There are plenty. Whilst I r...

http://rpgreenhalgh.blogspot.com/2018/05/my-spring-homework-thoughts-on-music.html

I had wanted to see Paper Aeroplanes live for some time but before I took the chance that project had ended. Thereafter Sarah Howells and her guitar started a new adventure, Bryde (with occasion...

http://rpgreenhalgh.blogspot.com/2018/04/new-music-2018-part-16-bryde-like-island.html

I have been thinking about 2018 festivals of late and that has, in part, been responsible for reminding me about all the artists that I saw in 2017 that, at least in some cases, I have never ment...

http://rpgreenhalgh.blogspot.com/2018/04/why-festivals-matter-photo-gallery.html

Not many artists choose midnight at the end of Easter Sunday to drop a new release. I guess if they do then there are not that many people just waiting to discover it and listen there and then. ...

http://rpgreenhalgh.blogspot.com/2018/04/new-music-2018-part-15-beelzebub-jones.html

I didn't find this. Someone, that I have never met and quite possibly never will, just saw fit to recommended it to me. That this is how it works is amazing in itself.  I struggle to find many m...

http://rpgreenhalgh.blogspot.com/2018/03/new-music-2018-part-14-darrin-bradbury.html