Even Butterflies Make A Sound
Norwegian singer/songwriter Juni Habel’s third album Evergreen In Your Mind, her first in three years, is out next week. It is a lovingly crafted, minimalist album of enchanting folk. Juni Habel remains relatively unknown (for the time being) and she might not be terribly prolific. Howver, you sense that she is very much an artist […]
Kathryn Williams’s new album is Mystery Park and is her first since the hugely endearing Willson Williams project. Released in 2024, that collaborative project was co-penned and performed with celebrated Edinburgh-based cult-indie songwriter Dan Willson (aka Withered Hand)*. She said: “This record is for anyone who’s felt something and kept it quiet. For those private […]
Lewis Leverett is Essex born and bred. There are high hopes for him to follow in the well-beaten path of other Essex singer-songwriters, like Billy Bragg, Darren Hayman, and Dodie, into the nation’s consciousness. I bumped into him at the City Sound Studios in Chelmsford. He was there to perform live and chat with Paul […]
Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne is a squeezebox player at the forefront of the English folk scene. He is embarking on a tour to promote his new LP Play Up The Music! The twenty-eight year old kindly took time to speak with me. He also plays in Granny’s Attic with friends he met at school George Sansome and […]
Ahead of the upcoming gig of Kathryn Williams and Dan Willson (aka Withered Hand) at Chelmsford’s Hot Box, Joe Harvey talked with the latter. They spoke about Dan’s early love of live music fostered in Essex grassroots music venues, his adopted home of Edinburgh, his influences, and the burgeoning songwriting relationship with the great Kathryn […]
David Arscott kindly took the time to review the eponymous debut LP from idiosyncratic Canadian artiste Shirley Hurt (the non de plume of Toronto-based Sophia Ruby Katz).
The first-ever Hot Box Folk & Country Festival arrives at Writtle Green, near Chelmsford, on Saturday, 5 August 2023. Clear a space in your diary and click here for tickets. This festival is an addition to the long-running jazz extravaganza, which takes place on the Sunday of the same weekend at the same site. Hot […]
It’s not everyday that your music is wholeheartedly endorsed by the 41st best stand-up ever! But, as we know, these days aren’t ordinary days anymore. These days. But … Brighton-based psyche-folk Sairie received a nod from none other than the great Stewart Lee. Some context. In a seemingly light-hearted departure from their “Original and traditional […]
Even Butterflies Make A Sound presents a live show by Alison Cotton as part of her tour of England.
Dot Allison’s new LP, Heart-Shaped Scars, is a triumphant return for one of the UK’s finest songwriters. Furthermore, it shows her uncanny ability to gather like-minded musicians to facilitate her musical vision. She released Room 7½ in 2009. And then mostly silence apart from the occasional dip into soundtracks and the odd collaboration. In that […]