C2C festival is taking over London’s mammoth concert arena, the O2, this weekend. The evening shows offer back to back performances from some of the biggest names in Country Radio with chart-toppers Kane Brown, Brad Paisley and Old Dominion taking the headline spots and earlier ones going to exciting talents like Drake Milligan and Elle... Continue Reading →
Off Stage with Everette
In an alternate reality I have just been listening to "The Butthole Truckers". That was what friends had jokingly dubbed Kentucky duo Everette before they settled on this more radio friendly name, inspired by George Clooney’s character in one of only about five DVDs they had when back in university together; O Brother, Where Art... Continue Reading →
We Need to Talk About Nashville Meets London (2022)
It seems I’m not very good with change. I had assumed that I was a flexible, go-with-the-flow ‘young’ woman until this year’s Nashville Meets London Festival was announced… (see the festival details in a nutshell at the end of this post) What had, since 2016, been a free July weekend where we’d sit out with... Continue Reading →
A Non-Country Fan’s Country Music Week Highlights
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... 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 →