Interviews
Interview (2012)
Atmospheric folk band Bird have won a considerable following in their hometown of Liverpool and the support of BBC 6Music. Richard Lewis talks to lead singer and songwriter Adele Emmas
Live
Kazimier, Liverpool, 23/5/2014
Harry Sherriff watches promising post-rockers Bird play their launch show to promote their four years-in-the-making debut album at the Kazimier in Liverpool
Reviews
My Fear and Me (2014)
Atmospheric and haunting debut album from ethereal Liverpool-based post-punk outfit, Bird
Insides (2004)
Charming debut album from singer-songwriter and cellist Janie Price, AKA Bird, which shows itself to be "a simply orchestrated voyage inside a subconscious"
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Jowe Head
Interview
Keith How talks to former Television Personalities and Swell Maps guitarist Jowe Head about his new solo album 'Widdershins', and is also given fascinating insights into his art and music,
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Interview
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Profiles
John Kruth
This Bird Has Flown: The Enduring Legacy of Rubber Soul Fifty Years On
Keith How finds disappointing American author and musician John Kruth's new book 'This Bird Has Flown' on the Beatles 1965 album, 'Rubber Soul'
Live
Jimmy's, Liverpool, 30/6/2022
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Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita
Crucible Studio Theatre, Sheffield. 15/5/2018
Nicky Crewe watches harpist Catrin Finch and Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita play a haunting set in Sheffield to promote their second album ‘Soar’, which takes its inspiration from the flight of the osprey, a bird recently reintroduced to Finch’s native Wales.
Bird to Beast
Gullivers, Manchester, 13/3/2014
Nicky Crewe finds local duo Bird to Beast to be both genre-spanning and original in a show at Gullivers in Manchester
Features
Pennyblackmusic Bands Night
Half Moon, London, 29/10/2011
Jamie Rowland looks back on our Pennyblackmusic Bands' Night on October 29th at the Half Moon in Herne Hill in South London, which saw sets from Morton Valence, Madam, the Doomed Bird of Providence and Rome Pays Off
Profile
Pennyblackmusic Bands' Night
We profile our next London Penny Black Music Bands' Night, which will take place on Saturday October 29th at the Half Moon in Herne Hill, South London and feature sets from Morton Valance, Madam, the Doomed Bird of Providence and Rome Pays Off