Music reviews, interviews
Baskery are three sisters from Sweden, Sunniva, Greta and Stella Bondesson. Sunniva plays guitar, Greta banjitar and drums and Stella the double bass. Vocals are shared amongst the trio, often all singing simultaneously. Five albums, fifteen years as a group and a lifetime of singing together bring harmonies to […]
The Star, Guildford. On a blustery night Lauren Housley and the Northern Cowboys kicked up a storm with their vibrant brand of soul/Americana. Housley comes with a solid reputation, three albums in the bag and BBC playlist credentials. For this tour the core band of vocalist Housley, guitarist Thomas Dibb and […]
Touring to promote their fourth album, Excuse Me While I Vanish, the powerhouse Cornish trio delivered delight to Brighton’s Green Door Store. BOON has reviewed this band seven times over the past six years and each time they have delivered a five star performance. That is a record. When […]
Daryl Hall thrilled a sell-out Hyde Park crowd, there to see Billy Joel, producing a real gem of a set. Backed by a tight band of lead guitar, drums, bass, keys, sax and percussion, Hall took rhythym guitar, and later piano, duties, gliding through an hour of classic […]
Includes blu ray disc with 96 khz / 24-bit 5.1 surround sound and dolby atmos mixes. This eagerly awaited follow up to Andy Jackson’s acclaimed albums Signal To Noise (2014) and 73 Days At Sea (2016) sees this original musician and producer explore new musical ground to great […]
The Teskey Brothers release Remember The Time, the final glimpse into their third studio album The Winding Way – out Friday 16th June. A nostalgic gem that feels like one of your favourite classic soul songs, Remember The Time reflects on love in its many shapes and forms – a celebration […]
The musical collective led by Norwegian rocker Paul-Ronney Angel is currently touring the UK to celebrate twenty years of glorious madness. Playing Guildford’s intimate and atmospheric Boileroom venue, the seven-piece processed to the stage through the audience to the UVM theme. For the next ninety minutes the venue was transformed and […]
Jay Lee and the Hoodoo Skulls Local Surrey band J Lee and the Hoodoo Skulls opened up this lively show at Guilford’s Star with a blistering set of of energetic, gutsy, swamp blues. A four-piece, led by vocalist, J Lee Barrett, the band delivered a high octane solid, […]
The Teskey Brothers release Take My Heart – a glimpse into their third studio album, The Winding Way – out Friday 16th June. At its core, Take My Heart is a love song; an ode to the people in our lives, past and present, who we carry in our hearts and […]
The Wood Brothers have shared Pilgrim (listen/share), the first single and opening track on their new studio album, Heart Is The Hero, due April 14 on Honey Jar/Thirty Tigers. A jaunty, acoustic-driven number, the song is a call to presence on life’s long and winding road. Its lyric offers inspired […]
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