In April 2018 we learned that revenues for streaming services surpassed income from CDs and vinyl (and, for that matter, cassettes) for the first time. So it feels rather quaint to have “Albums of the Year”, yet, like filling our… Read More ›
Sweet Billy Pilgrim
Sweet Billy Pilgrim’s New Album Wapentak Is A Five Star Success
These are troubling times. Russian bots influencing elections on both sides of the Atlantic. An American president surrounded by criminals. And an unprecedented polarisation of the political spectrum. And what’s trending on Twitter? Pete Doherty eating breakfast in a greasy… Read More ›
Five Things I Saw & Heard This Week
For the kids who Snapchat photos of themselves with a dog’s nose and ears superimposed, or who Instagram their every (doubtless avocado-based) meal, blogging about music may feel about as unfashionable as, well, Facebook. * Although very much the best… Read More ›
Sweet Billy Pilgrim Launch Stunning New Album At St Pancras Old Church
As the dystopian nightmare of 2017 fades, to be replaced with fresh, new dystopian horrors with a shiny “Made In 2018” badge on them, we find ourselves looking for a fresh start. And what better way to find a fresh… Read More ›
Sweet Billy Pilgrim At 93 Feet East: Review
It’s a crazy world we live in. For example, egotistical celebrities known for the craziest rants and most bizarre behaviour are filling our TV screens announcing they are running for President of the USA. Crazy. But that’s enough about Donald… Read More ›
Half Year Report: The Best Albums of 2015 So Far Part 1
…and a couple of releases from 2014 that I missed first time around. Do you remember how you felt when you had to take your school report home to your parents? Would they pick up on Mrs McHugh’s scathing sarcasm… Read More ›
Sweet Billy Pilgrim Reveal Brilliant New Songs. Audience Breathes Collective Sigh Of Relief.
Sweet Billy Pilgrim, as regular readers will attest, are a band worthy of much attention, but are – unfathomably – not yet at the stage where stadia and arenas sponsored by phone companies and chewing gum manufacturers are pleading… Read More ›
Want To Host A Gig At Your Home? Sweet Billy Pilgrim Can Make It Happen With New Album
The music industry might be on it’s last legs, resembling something that has been dragged backwards through a hedge in a particularly unsavoury part of town, but it isn’t all bad news. If there is a silver lining, it… Read More ›
Sweet Billy Pilgrim New Album News
Studio news reaches my ears from Every Record Tells A Story favourites (and ERTAS Album of the Year 2012 winners) Sweet Billy Pilgrim. Sweet Billy Pilgrim are looking towards crowd-funding to help raise the funds needed to produce their fourth… Read More ›
See Sweet Billy Pilgrim and Ed Harcourt at Free Village Green Festival This Weekend
Life is busy, right? What with the need to prevent bosses and clients banging at the door with pitchforks and flaming torches with the day job, keeping my wife and kids entertained with brilliant jokes, silly walks and bad singing,… Read More ›
Look Out For…Sweet Billy Pilgrim: Download Their Album For Free. Yes. Free.
Regular readers will know that my favourite album of last year was Sweet Billy Pilgrim‘s “Crown and Treaty”. I wasn’t the only one. Mojo Magazine slotted it neatly into their Top 50 albums, calling it an instant five star classic,… Read More ›
2012 In Pictures
As 2012 comes to a close, here are a few concert pictures that I took which best capture the year from my perspective: Just to show that this blog is not just about me making jokes about my favourite musicians,… Read More ›
The Top Ten Records of 2012
The Ten Best records of 2012? Growing up in the eighties, you didn’t hear much about end of year best-of lists, but now, like reality TV shows featuring people I have never heard of, they appear to be everywhere. It… Read More ›
Tom McRae joins Sweet Billy Pilgrim at Their Alexandra Residency
Tom McRae joined Sweet Billy Pilgrim‘s residency at The Alexandra last night. Fresh from supporting The Futureheads at The Shepherd’s Bush Empire and a session on John Kennedy’s Xposure XFM show (both on Wednesday) Sweet Billy Pilgrim (and Tom McRae) played… Read More ›
Every Record Tells A Story Scores 100
Well – it’s my 100th post…. Blowers: “And with that quick single off the pads, that’s a century of posts from England’s Every Record Tells A Story. 100 up – and he’s looking delighted as he acknowledges the applause from… Read More ›
