- Charting the strange course of the Blue Nile
An excellent new book about the now-estranged Glasgow band offers a forensic examination of its history and why it is that fans tend to be a tad obsessive
- Polly Math
PJ Harvey took poetry classes and learned to play the autoharp for her stunning new album Let England Shake . And it’s only now that she’s had the confidence to take on the world, penning songs that take in battlefields, bloodshed and bleak landscapes – but with a mercifully upbeat backing. She talks to SINÉAD GLEESON .
Rock/Pop »
- Kooky mix
Californian Julie Baenziger – aka Sea of Bees – went through a period of turmoil as a young gay woman before she was taken to church to be ‘saved’. And she was: she took up guitar to impress a church-going girl and hasn’t looked back since, she tells LAUREN MURPHY
- Booking the Cooks
OISÍN DAVIS stirs with the stars
Roots/World/Jazz »
- Awards chart state of play in trad music
The winners of this year’s TG4 Gradam Ceoil awards are an interesting mix, including one American woman, who show where Irish music is now and where it is heading, writes SIOBHAN LONG
- Lessons in the key of traditional tunes
Is it possible to pick up a tin whistle and be playing tunes in little more than a week? With the right teacher, and the right attitude, it just might be, as ARMINTA WALLACE discovers
Jim Carroll | On The Record »
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- Other Voices to air soon
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