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Articles by Sam Gill
Take Me Somewhere Nice: Green Man Festival 2026
The Welsh countryside is dry and yellow, with few flashes of its signature green visible as we weave our way down the winding A-roads. Rivers are weak and waning, water flowing less freely from the mountain heart, the hillsides fatigued by endless sun. Wildfires are in the air, the woody tang streaming in through the car windows as we pass Newtown, Builth Wells and Talgarth.
Yo La Tengo @ Content, Liverpool - 30/08/2024
The sun has just disappeared behind the red brick tower of Cains Brewery, and tonight’s gig goers file into the aircraft hangar-like space of Content, eagerly awaiting take-off. An 8pm start has been circulated on social media, and nobody wants to miss the band that supports themselves, a.k.a. Yo La Tengo. We’re only kept waiting fifteen minutes as last-minute roadie checks get us ready for the first set. Opening with Sinatra Drive Breakdown from their latest LP, there’s no warming up required.
Bonny Doon / Muriel @ The Jacaranda, Liverpool - 29/08/2024
A Wednesday night on Slater Street and I’m welcomed into town with a warm wind and a honking busker rendering songs I somehow don’t know. I’m headed somewhere I do know the songs though, and that is a place called Bonny Doon. I believe it’s a town somewhere in California, transplanted here for one night only courtesy of the Detroit band bearing its name.
The Horizon Divides You: Exploring Ambient Country
Where to start? The blank page. The wide-open sky. The horizon divides you. A half of the endless firmament; a half of the ground, rooted with plants, scattered with sand. A Rothko of the mind. How do you write about music when you don’t even know what it’s called? What is this sound I’ve found? Ambient country? Cosmic Pedal Steel? Narcoleptic Nashville?
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