RED ROOSTER FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FIRST WAVE OF ARTISTS FOR 2025…… 29th -31st May 2025 Euston Hall, Suffolk JD McPherson, Samantha Fish, Jerron Paxton, Thee Sinseers, The Altons, DeWolff, Jim Jones Allstars, Jenny Don’t & The Spurs, JP Harris, Twinnie, David Viner, Emily Zeck, Too Bad Jims and The Zipheadsand many more to be announced JD McPherson is back and plays his first UK shows in 7 years on the back of his brilliant new album Nite Owls. JD has […]
Nick Piunti & The Complicated Men “Up And Out Of It” Regular readers of http://www.thesoulofaclown.com will know that we are huge fans of Nick Piunti. He’s got to be one […]
Kids In Glass Houses “Pink Flamingo” For many readers, the name Kids in Glass Houses will be a real blast from the past. They were a band that were tied […]
Tamar Berk “Good Times For A Change” Tamar Berk is one of those artists that we kept hearing a lot of good things about but somehow have failed to give […]
Fidlar “Surviving The Dream” Fidlar are a band that we really got into with their previous release Almost Free which saw the band expand their rawer, surf punk sound into […]
Hinds – “Viva Hinds” It’s fair to say that it has been a somewhat turbulent year for Hinds with half the band deciding to quit. We were gutted to hear […]
Truck Festival 25-28 July 2024 Truck Festival is a festival we have been meaning to attend for a while and this year we finally managed to get there. Faced with […]
The Caezars “S/T” It seems a lifetime since we were extoling the virtues of the Caezars and declaring they have ‘the song-writing skills and live-ability to re-energise Rockabilly music for […]
Rich Ragany – “You Can Get Dark With Me” We always feel we should declare an interest when reviewing the material of Rich Ragany. Partly because we have been long […]
The full Deer Shed Festival Line Up for 2024 DEER SHED FESTIVAL26th – 29th JULY 2024BALDERSBY PARK, TOPCLIFFE, NORTH YORKSHIREhttps://deershedfestival.com TICKETS ON SALE NOWNorth Yorkshire’s Deer Shed Festival has announced […]
Red Rooster Festival – Euston Hall 30 May – 1 June 2024 The first band we get to see our Brown Horse and it’s good to see a local band […]
His Lordship – Norwich Arts Centre Tues 28 May 2024 It’s only been 4 days since we last saw His Lordship at Bearded Theory (see our review here) but as […]
Bearded Theory 23-26 May 2024 It must be a festival organisers nightmare when the country is hit by a ridiculous spell of wet weather. For Bearded Theory they faced the […]
Extra Arms “Radar” We’ve been a huge fan of all the stuff that Ryan Allen has done both solo and as part of a group. His work with Extra Arms […]
The Wesleys “S/T” If we’re honest, the first thing that attracted us to The Wesleys was the hope their name may have been inspired by the Norwich legend Wesley Hoolahan. […]
Steve Conte “The Concrete Jangle” We have no fear in declaring our love for the work and ability of Steve Conte. Let’s face it, any musician who has been asked […]
We dont know about you, but here at thesoulofaclown we are desperately awaiting some better weather and the start of the festival season. It was therefore a delight to get […]
Marc Valentine “Basement Sparks” I guess many of us have one of those bands that we are convinced should be huge but inexplicably have not been picked up by the […]
Julianna Riolino at The Tin, The Coal Vaults, Coventry on 7/12/23 First things first we need to pay credit to Joe Colombi at Sink or Swim Promotions. It seems like […]
RED ROOSTER FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FIRST WAVE OF ARTISTS FOR 10TH ANNIVERSARY ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL, ROBERT FINLEY, BOB LOG III, KITTY LIV, BROWN HORSE, THE DIRTY STRANGERS, ROSCO SHAKES, DYLAN […]
Autogramm “Music That Humans Can Play” We loved the previous releases by Autogramm (see our reviews here and here) so were delighted to have this new release drop in our […]
The Tearaways “And For Our Next Trick” Given this album is on the brilliant Dirty Water records label you kind of know it’s going to be good. But when it’s […]
The Evening Sons “Tracks” We’re always in two minds when a press release references bands we like. On the one hand, we think great this should be good. But it […]
The Uppers “Manic Melodies” The press release for this EP immediately ticked a lot of boxes for us when it described The Uppers sound as combining raw punk with the […]
Danny the K “Cigarettes and Silhouettes” This is the debut release from Danny Kopko who is a also a member of a number of some other band you may well […]
Kurt Baker “Rock N Roll Club” Kurt Baker is a bit of a workhorse in the power pop world and is constantly putting out material either as a solo artist […]
The Speedways Triple Platinum In some ways we’re not sure we should need to review this album. If you’ve read our reviews of The Speedways previous albums (just another regularsummer, […]
Red Rooster Festival 1st-3rd June 2023 Euston Hall You only need to read some of our reviews of previous years to know that Red Rooster is one of our favourite […]
LIVE FIRE PROGRAMME REVEALED SERVING THE FOOD & CULTURE OF AMERICA’S DEEP SOUTH THE SONGWRITER SESSIONS EXPERIENCE THE STORIES BEHIND THE SONGS FROM YOUR FAVOURITE ARTISTS YOUNG FOLK AREA ALSO […]
Bearded Theory 26-28 May 2023, Catton Hall. It was our first time at Bearded Theory and with the promise of glorious weather and it marking the start of our festival […]
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