it's a welcome return for Lisa Wright with her latest single, a recreation of the The Proclaimers standard "500 Miles". It's featured in films, and had its own Comic Relief version but its always been something of a triumphant bombastic curtain closer bringing the end to an evenings entertainment, and so it's great to report that Lisa has taken it back to its bare bones found a more tender meaning at the centre of it that many of us have probably missed on our way to the sto

It is great to see such an iconic London venue once again being regularly used for Americana gigs, with the walls plastered with previous alumni such as The Clash and Elvis Costello it is a room that is crying out to be filled with top quality music, which is as well because tonight was to be exactly that. Starting with two ladies who between them have released some of the most compelling work in the genre over the last few years, Laura Oakes and Lisa Wright precariously bala

No trouble parking tonight as a closure to the stretch of road outside the Troubadour for repairs meant that there were spaces for everybody. The only drawback being that it must have been for repairs to a gas main as the Troubadour was unusually cold tonight but we had a strong bill ahead to take our minds of things and bumping into Twinnie as we entered the venue meant that we were also promised a special guest at some point. An altogether topsy turvy evening started with