Author Archives: haymoncollins

Firsts and Lasts

Posted on July 6, 2012 by haymoncollins

I used to believe that the ‘firsts’ were the most significant moments – the first step, the first kiss, the first time. But in truth it is the ‘lasts’ that often resonate the loudest and longest – the last steps, … Continue reading →

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Hawksley Workman – The Borderline

Posted on June 19, 2012 by haymoncollins

The teeny tiny Borderline is  tucked away downstairs just yards from the Friday night alcohol swilling young things of media Soho, the flirtatious Old Compton Street melange and the vaguely lost tourists of Charing Cross Road. Here I am slumped … Continue reading →

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Sharon van Etten – Scala, London

Posted on May 18, 2012 by haymoncollins

You know how it is, sometimes you fall madly and deeply in love with an artist and their music, like I did with SvE’s Epic a couple of years ago and this year with Tramp. The music is contagious, addictive; … Continue reading →

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Oh Be Joyful – Daniel Bachman

Posted on May 10, 2012 by haymoncollins

Sitting here in a dreary, damp and unseasonably cold UK listening back to Daniel Bachman latest album, I am struck by both how alien, but also strangely familiar, this music is. Underneath the quintessentially American country-folk picking music is a layer both … Continue reading →

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Fear Fun – Father John Misty

Posted on May 7, 2012 by haymoncollins

What a difference a name makes. Giving up on his drummer role in Fleet Foxes, abandoning the Josh Tillman moniker for his solo work, dumping the sparse (if beautiful) droney treatment of his previous albums and taking up the consciously random Father John Misty has … Continue reading →

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Scott Matthews – Wolverhampton Newhampton Arts

Posted on May 5, 2012 by haymoncollins

Dang, you always know you’re going to get a good show with SM at the Newhampton Arts in Wolverhampton. Home town, good contingent of family and friends and the ever faithful like to the Pompey Posse, IDS and me. All … Continue reading →

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Shearwater – The Cellar Oxford

Posted on April 6, 2012 by haymoncollins

The fact that Shearwater, purveyors of such monumental and remarkable music, are not simply huge is a continuing mystery to me. There is an upside however (for we cognoscenti at least) in that you can still get to see them … Continue reading →

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Tramp – Sharon Van Etten

Posted on March 26, 2012 by haymoncollins

I have had this album for weeks now, and play it over and over, its like a contagion, barely a day passes when I don’t listen to it, much as in the way I did for SvE’s previous album Epic a couple of … Continue reading →

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Bravo Brave Bats on BBC6 Music

Posted on March 18, 2012 by haymoncollins

Just a tiny bloglet here to mark and celebrate the fact that Bravo Brave Bats got their highly deserved first national radio airplay last  night on the inestimable Tom Robinson show on BBC6 Music. Tom chose High Wire/Tight Rope, originally … Continue reading →

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Roddy Woomble – Cheltenham Town Hall

Posted on March 13, 2012 by haymoncollins

Here is a voice that has kept me company for these last 12 or 14 years. Part of the exhilarating soarings of Idlewild at their best, providing the shimmering soundtrack to the youth I wished I could have had, re-written or re-lived, and … Continue reading →

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