Author Archives: haymoncollins

Dietro a un vetro – Giulio Fagiolini

Posted on August 1, 2017 by haymoncollins

  Increasingly I find myself taking refuge in music that gives me access to that zen-like space that I find when swimming or running, a space for clarity and focus. There are, I admit, times when I embrace the fuzzy, … Continue reading →

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Apart For So Long – Hail Taxi

Posted on November 28, 2016 by haymoncollins

  Its one of my great joys, receiving an email introducing some new music or artist. But often sadly its a short lived joy, finding the content not to my personal liking. But then sometimes, boom, you hit the jackpot … Continue reading →

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Talk Baby – Matt Elleray

Posted on October 5, 2016 by haymoncollins

A short little email announced Talk Baby, a ‘new’ish’ track according to the message from Matt Elleray. The picture of an apparently dissolute young feller-my-lad might lead to you to expect some God-awful white urban gangsta tosh, but not a … Continue reading →

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Daniel Bachman at the Lantern, Bristol

Posted on May 9, 2016 by haymoncollins

It has been a long time coming, waiting to see Daniel Bachman play in flesh, so to speak. A musician of rare and remarkable talents he popped up at the Lantern in Bristol this weekend. Apparently this was his third … Continue reading →

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Blue Rose Code at The Convent

Posted on May 1, 2016 by haymoncollins

Sat here on this spring Sunday morning with my second illicit cup of coffee, my head is still swirling with the songs of Blue Rose Code from the night before, and most particularly Edina from The Ballads of Peckham Rye … Continue reading →

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Holding Back – Tamu Massif

Posted on April 22, 2016 by haymoncollins

Oh my, I have bleated on about this chap before. Mr Dixon/Tamu Massif just does it for me – every now and again he drops a new track or two and occasionally, like last year, a whole EP like the … Continue reading →

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Turin Brakes with Tom Speight at Gloucester Guildhall 

Posted on March 1, 2016 by haymoncollins

Chatting to chums at another gig (the towering Shearwater as you ask), I mentioned that I was off to see Turin Brakes (for the tumpy-tum time) the next eve. ‘Really? Why do you keeping going to see them?’… mmm I … Continue reading →

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Shearwater at the Fleece, with Cross Record

Posted on February 19, 2016 by haymoncollins

Jet Plane and Oxbow may well be the sainted Shearwaters best album yet (although I might have said that before for their other releases!) In many ways it is the record that sounds most like them live, always a soaring … Continue reading →

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United Downs – Trelawney

Posted on January 29, 2016 by haymoncollins

Benjamin Reynolds aka Trelawney, is the possessor of a remarkable voice. In these days of homogenised, tuned and tweaked voices his is one of those rare examples of characterful and distinctive pipes that demand you listen, that can hardly fail to … Continue reading →

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My ’12 from 2015′ list sort of thing …

Posted on December 21, 2015 by haymoncollins

Another year has zipped by so fast it almost feels premature to have an ‘end of 2015’ list; but looking back now so many old friends only seemed to make an appearance over these last twelve months. So here goes, in … Continue reading →

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