On her new EP, Danel follows grief, memory and the difficult work of making a home, supported by a musical world of banjo, fiddle, mandolin, piano and flute.
“I don’t think I was ever trying to make the perfect pop song…”
We talk to Charlie Brand, ahead of Miniature Tigers’ upcoming show at The Studio at The Bomb Factory, about what he stopped chasing, the songs he finally let go and the freedom he found in making the record.
THE Budos Band Delivers, Pops Steals Show At Tulips
“Happy Birthday, dear Pops. Happy Birthday to you.” That was the chorus of 300+ Friday night at Tulips – a love filled message to Sha La Das frontman, Bill “Pops” Schalda on his 80th birthday.
A Mercury Prize nomination has pulled Blizzard into wider view, but its creator still sounds most convincing when the edges remain difficult to explain.
