Having just celebrated the 30th year of Woodford with record breaking box office sales, this year’s festival saw more than 129,000 people in attendance. And what a way it was to celebrate the coming of 2016…. With a huge diversity of artists and musicians hidden around each… Read More »30th Year of Woodford Folk Festival
In a time and society so vehemently driven by commercialism and consumption, we are so easily blinded to the things that truly matter. Christmas began before the Christians claimed it, a Pagan celebration of the winter equinox in jubilant thanks that the cold, dark days… Read More »WOODFORD FOLK FESTIVAL: ‘ANTI-SOCIAL’ BEHAVIOUR
When I finished high school, I walked blindly into the wide world. Vague notions rattled around my pubescent brain of career aspirations, next steps or long term goals, but mostly my thoughts were consumed with beer, weed and skateboarding. For Louie Swain and Patrick Hetherington,… Read More »HARMONIES: LOUIE & PATRICK
While Splendour in the Grass, Big Day Out, The Falls Festival and the gamut of events peppering the annual calendar each have their own unique ambiance and appeal, each one as superb as the next for singular reasons, there is much that can be predicted… Read More »WOODFORD: A FESTIVAL APART
While Byron locals were tearing their hair out, hindered in their daily tasks by an influx of both Christmas and Falls Festival visitors, unable to buy a simple loaf of bread without a 45-minute wait and spending the greater part of their mornings in traffic… Read More »WOODFORD: THAT OTHER FESTIVAL
It must be hard growing up in the shadow of one of the most legendary musicians of all time, but for Julian Marley, son of the late, great Bob Marley, the path into a musical career has been all his own. Born in London, he… Read More »JULIAN MARLEY: HIS OWN MAN
Big music demands a big venue. Rock acts, such as the Rolling Stones or Muse just wouldn’t have the same impact playing to a room of a couple hundred people. But on the flipside of this, there are those artists for whom the intimacy of… Read More »SMALL TOWN FOLK: ROSE COUSINS & JORDIE LANE
Brendan Maclean is a showman. Listening cold turkey to his music, it’s easy to pigeonhole the artist: pop-synth melodies and chirpy riffs saturate his music and, if you’re not really paying attention, you could almost be forgiven for drawing false conclusions of stereotype and genralisation.… Read More »BRENDAN MACLEAN: A VAUDEVILLIAN CONUNDRUM
