A lot of people have put their Christmas decorations up incredibly early this year, understandably in need of an emergency joy injection. We’ve managed to resisted putting ours up so far (despite watching comforting Christmas movies since July) but are counting down to December 1st to go full-on festive. So we’re kicking off this year’s […]
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I finally got Non-Country Boyfriend (NCB) to come to a country music festival with me. He’d had to collect his dad from hospital the day he was due to join me at Buckle and Boots. Then he broke his shoulder the week before The Long Road. And the jury is still out on whether he […]
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So far, Digital Country Music Week has been a warm blanket over a drizzly week. It’s been waking up with radio interviews from Nashville, then coming home to wine and the tonic of soothing songwriter sessions. Rather than being a poor substitute for the usually live seven days of music overload, we have leaned into […]
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Computers ready? Home bar stocked? Prayers said to ward off any technical gremlins? Then welcome to Country Music Week. In case you’ve missed it, in previous years, every October since 2017, London has hosted a week-long collection of intimate country gigs in venues across the city. It’s been a time of school night partying, Soho […]
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Aah, 2020. How I miss the days when ‘corona’ was just something for Maren Morris and Ryan Hurd to find Love in a Bar over, or for Brad Paisley to drink instead of the water. Now, it is the thing which has sent us into limbo, as we wait for our invisible enemy to strike […]
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