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Festival review – Outside/Inside: The Bridge, Homelessness to Hope at Firebug & Duffy’s Bar, 16th & 17th November 2024

31/01/2025 Kevin Gaughan 0
Now for one of my favourite sets of the weekend, Honest Dave, a beautiful performance from Dave and the rest of the band, with their saxophone, guitar and ‘wooden knock’ played a varied discography; featured songs that tackled a Rwandan witch

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Gig review – Plastic Circus at The International, Friday 17th January 2025

30/01/2025 Thomas Needham 0
with Ant Hill, Charlie Plews and Rebecca French Reviewed by Thomas Needham ‘I usually play all the same pubs so it’s nice to play somewhere […]

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Single review – Dogs Don’t Deal, The Animals’s Back

18/12/2024 Kevin Gaughan 0
“The word on the street is that he’s back on the map” is one of the chorus hooks that pulls the song along irresistibly;

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Gig review – Charlotte Carpenter at Firebug, Friday 24th November 2023

28/11/2023 Kevin Gaughan 0
with Mouse Teeth Reviewed by Phil Taylor (see his Music Observer blog here) Charlotte Carpenter is a creator and an investor. She creates poetic, intense, […]

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Gig review – Andrea Kenny at The Old Moses Cabin, Friday 3rd November 2023

09/11/2023 Kevin Gaughan 0
with Sam Tucker? and Sally Hossack and the Dream Band Reviewed by Christa Lord I arrived at the venue early enough to catch the buzz […]

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