Off Stage with Everette

Everette band playing at Long Road Festival

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 →

August 31, 2022 0

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 →

August 23, 2022 2

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 →

October 27, 2020 0

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 →

May 23, 2020 0

The Long Road’s Fashion Rules

Most of the year we go out of our way to show just how contemporary the country music scene is and to prove it’s not all double-denim, rhinestones and tassels. But then a festival like The Long Road rolls into town and suddenly we're “OK, I’m off to meet my people... shut up and pass... Continue Reading →

September 10, 2019 3