With our eighth issue, Songbook continues to offer readers its refreshing, entertaining and informative coverage of the UK and international music scene.

From folk and roots through rock and pop, via world music and all manner of other less easily labelled sounds, we endeavour to bring some of the best new music to your attention ... with authority, enthusiasm, at times with a fierce passion, always with style and, occasionally, with a sense of humour, too.

We also select some of the best classic sounds of the 50s, 60s and 70s now finding its way onto CD for review alongside our extensive new-release coverage, while our live pages give you an insight into some of the great gigs you might have missed over the last three months. Established artists and emerging new talent alike are illuminated by the Songbook spotlight and it's a view we strongly recommend. Written by genuine music fans for genuine music fans, our bullshit-free pages provide the perfect antidote to the generic, bland and over-familiar pages of the corporate music press. If you want to have a real conversation again about the music you love, Songbook is the place to go. With us, it's personal.

Hope to hear from you soon.

 
Editor and Publisher