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... Continue Reading →
10 Ideas to Keep it Country in Lockdown
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... Continue Reading →
C2C Called Off: Why We Danced Anyway
If this is the end of life as we know it – which it feels like it might be – I like to think that the giant posters of the 'C2C festival that never happened' will stay up, as a last reminder of what life was once like; Darius Rucker’s supersized face waiting there to... Continue Reading →
***CLOSED*** Giveaway: Win Talolo Boots
What's better than a new pair of cowboy boots? A free new pair of cowboy boots. So to help combat all the disappointing news at the moment, the lovely team at Talolo boots are giving away a pair of their festival perfect cowboy wellies. You've probably seen Talolo boots around, making a splash at lots... Continue Reading →
How to Cope when your Country Festival Leaves You
As reasons for cancelling things go, a worldwide pandemic is a pretty decent one. That said, there is a suspicious part of me which wonders whether Non-Country-Fan Boyfriend somehow orchestrated all of this to escape yet another country festival he was about to be dragged along to. Or perhaps it was my co-blogger Judi’s FOMO... Continue Reading →