• David Keenan

    David Keenan

    David Keenan, the songwriter from Dundalk in Ireland, is one of the most inspired and inspiring songwriters I’ve gotten to know in the past few ...
  • Niamh Regan

    Niamh Regan

    Niamh Regan is a critically acclaimed songwriter from county Galway, Ireland. Her songs are windows into her world, snapshots of the intimacy of everyday life. Regan ...
  • Brian Dunne

    Brian Dunne

    About a year and a half after his first session, Brian Dunne recorded another session. This time in the extraordinary surroundings of Soesterduinen, a sand ...
  • Bertolf

    Bertolf

    I remember a phone call by Bertolf Lentink once, telling me he basically was planning to end his solo career. For a while after he ...
  • Conchúr White

    Conchúr White

    Conchúr White, a singer-songwriter from County Armagh in Northern Ireland, was on his way to a show in Cork on Ireland’s south coast this August, ...
  • The Brother Brothers

    The Brother Brothers

    The first time I met Adam and David Moss, a.k.a. The Brother Brothers, they were seated next to me and Judy Blank at dinner during ...
  • Fantastic Cat

    Fantastic Cat

    When four songwriters join up and start a super group, and you’ve filmed with three of them before, chances are you’re going to like their ...
  • Niamh Bury

    Niamh Bury

    The Influences went to Kilkenny, Ireland and invited local musicians to join them in the tower of the monumental Kilkenny Castle to record sessions. And ...
  • Aestrid

    Aestrid

    Aestrid feels like more than just a band. The Utrecht-based rock band is more of a pact between three good friends who help each other ...
  • Krea

    Krea

    Karen Cowley compares releasing her first solo EP with ‘cycling a bike without stabilizers for the first time’. The Callows is her first solo work ...
  • Lentink & Son

    Lentink & Son

    Allow me to introduce: Lentink & Son! You might know Dutch extraordinary songwriter and guitarist Bertolf from one of his six solo albums, his previous ...
  • Alela Diane

    Alela Diane

    This week marks the 15th anniversary of this website. It’s pretty special and a bit mind-blowing to think about everything that has happened in that ...
  • The Deslondes

    The Deslondes

    Bringing a band back together after a break isn’t always a good idea. Plenty of reunions end up a disappointment for both fans and the ...
  • Prize Collect

    Prize Collect

    You haven’t heard anything by Prize Collect, yet. Until today. The Influences has the honour of sharing the first music by the Dutch band, formed ...
  • Sam Vano

    Sam Vano

    Last week, Sam Vano released his debut EP Solitaire. Sam van Ommen, the Dutch songwriter, was previously known for Sam & Julia and these days ...
  • The Tallest Man On Earth

    The Tallest Man On Earth

    The Tallest Man On Earth and The Influences started almost simultaneously. His debut album Shallow Grave was released in 2008, the year this website started. ...
  • Mariee Siou

    Mariee Siou

    Mariee Sioux Sobonya was born on the Humboldt coast in Arcata, California. When she was two her family moved to the Sierra Nevada foothills in ...
  • Dominic Billett

    Dominic Billett

    Erin Rae, Andrew Combs, Courtney Marie Andrews, Caitlin Rose, Kelsey Waldon… these are just a few names of artists who have had the pleasure of ...
  • Hala

    Hala

    People often ask me how I get musicians to record a session. The answer is simple: either I invite them nicely, or they contact me. ...
  • Nathan Ball

    Nathan Ball

    Imagine driving across Europe for weeks, by yourself, playing shows and then driving hundreds of miles for the next one. That’s exactly what English songwriter ...
  • Siv Jakobsen

    Siv Jakobsen

    In a serene and picturesque setting in the woods close to my house in Huis ter Heide in The Netherlands, Norwegian songwriter Siv Jakobsen delivered ...
  • Sophie Janna

    Sophie Janna

    Sophie Janna played ‘Thistle’, and gorgeous covers of Nick Drake and Anaïs Mitchell in an 19th century church. She also wrote an essay about her ...