One of the most original and stunning singers of traditional music, Cara Dillon, is currently touring, following the release of her beautiful fourth album, Hill of Thieves.

The album marks a return to her roots with an outstanding collection of traditional songs. Already a highly acclaimed torch-bearer of traditional music, songwriter Cara, and [...]

Hugh Wilson

If you fancy a festival with 14 stages, four mung bean burger stands and a Big Bank sponsored corporate VIP alcopops enclosure, Larmer Tree is probably not for you.

This is a friendly little festival which makes much of its cosy 4000 capacity and pretty-as-a-picture location on the Wiltshire/Dorset Border. It wins awards for “having [...]

Oh blimey. Some marketing person broke into my brain and designed a singer – Weird Science-style – to ruin my life,

I say ruin but only in the “I will never listen to anything else ever again” kinda way. Nashville-born (REALLY) 22-year-old Caitlin Rose could have wandered off the screen of a chipper Reese Witherspoon movie about a [...]

Indie film-makers read on. Next year’s soundtrack is already written. Hazel Davis meets Lail Arad

“When we were about 12 me and my best friend declared ourselves hippies, stole our parents’ old clothes and records and formed a band called The Hippy Hippopotamuses,” laughs Lail Arad. “We wrote crazy psychedelic songs called things like Cutting Into [...]