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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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Bravo Brave Bats – BBC Session and at The Thekla w/ We Are Augustines

Posted on February 27, 2012 by haymoncollins

Bravo Brave Bats, Bristol’s best band (I will brook no dissent, they just simply are, and I know every  Bristol band…) is having a bit of a good start to the year; a new project of writing a song a month with … Continue reading →

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Folding Leaves – Message to Bears

Posted on January 9, 2012 by haymoncollins

Well if this is how 2012 will pan out it will be a good year – the first two releases of the New Year both long awaited material from favoured artists, first Wise Children and now Message to Bears. With … Continue reading →

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Operation Rolling Thunder – III

Posted on December 8, 2011 by haymoncollins

. Operation Rolling Thunder was the name of a long and sustained aerial bombardment against North Vietnam between 1965 and 1968 and is the chosen name of this New Zealand two piece, and with good reason. Brothers Adam and Rob Falconer, now of … Continue reading →

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Okkervil River – Bristol Trinity

Posted on November 22, 2011 by haymoncollins

Towards the end of slog around Europe the six members of  Okkervil River must be feeling like going home and having a break. They admitted to having been a while without a shower and their clothes had a distinct air of being … Continue reading →

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Turin Brakes, Bristol Thekla

Posted on November 13, 2011 by haymoncollins

Turin Brakes are now a long held passion, ever since the days of The Optimist (first time around). They were the first band I took the Lad to see and we have seen them every year since. They have never let us … Continue reading →

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Bon Iver – Bristol Colston Hall, 11 November 2011

Posted on November 12, 2011 by haymoncollins

It has been a good long while since I first saw Justin Vernon aka Bon Iver play, then as a three piece with Mike Noyce and Sean Carey, in the more intimate surroundings of the Trinity Centre in Bristol back in September 2008. Back then I … Continue reading →

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Roddy Woomble – Bristol Colston Hall 2

Posted on October 14, 2011 by haymoncollins

. The second time of seeing Mr Woomble this year, the first at the wonderful Union Chapel at around the time of the Impossible Songs launch, and this time on Colston Hall. A couple of the band members were the … Continue reading →

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Living Room Songs – Ólafur Arnalds

Posted on October 8, 2011 by haymoncollins

I have been following Ólafur Arnalds project all week, it has been a touching, intensely human experience with a rare intimacy. Each day he has created a new song, recorded a download mp3 and and accompanying video and made them immediately … Continue reading →

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