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At the Barrier - New Forest Folk Festival 2024 
'Live - a veritable Portuguese bumper bark harvest, the six piece rejigging, recalibrating and reformatting the Denny songbook.Ending with a tumultuos John The Gun, dwarfing even Richard Thompson’s recent revisiting of the old gem, they too had to be given the opportunity to finally close with, what else, Who Knows Where The Time Goes. A tremendous show, this lot have legs, and any old covers band they certainly ain’t.'- click here for full review

The Musician, Leicester 2024
RnR Magazine (Ian Croft)
'A superb gig by top quality, seasoned musicians who combined to create as good a folk-rock performance as I've seen for some time.'

Otley Courthouse 2024
Tykes Stirrings (Nigel Schofield)
'They filled the small stage. They (or rather their audience) filled the seats. They filled the room with joy for two sets of the music of Sandy Denny. They opened with a magnificent, epic version of Banks of the Nile, a breath-taking showstopper and also a mission statement – we do these songs with respect (it proclaimed) but we do them our way; most of all we do them bloody well. For most acts this would have been the climax. For them to make it the opening number is a measure of how good they are....Drawing from Sandy’s entire career, they reinvigorated every song without ever losing the spirit of the original. They did Sandy proud…they are not preserving her legacy; they are her legacy. No one does it better than The Sandy Denny Project.'

Nigel Schofield
SDP VOL TWO
The Sandy Denny Project
What the Sandy Denny Project are NOT - a tribute band, dedicated to recreating recordings/live performances of another artist. What the Sandy Denny Project are - a band who keep alive the music associated with artist they both respect and admire, by finding fresh, appropriate new ways to interpret it. They are well equipped to do so - five lead vocalists (with Sally Barker and Marion Fleetwood sharing most of the lead duties); three guitarists (with P J Wright on electric lead and pedal steel, stunning throughout); Gemma Shirley on keyboards (and lead vocals on a gobsmacking One More Chance); Mat Davis rock solid on bass; and, in Mark Stevens, not only an excellent drummer, but Hammond organ, brass (flugelhorn) and producer. In addition to Sandy's own songs, we also have Farewell, Farewell (Richard Thompson) and a gorgeous, sparse, harmonised version of Dave Swarbrick's White Dress to close the album. Other standouts include a reinvention of Autopsy which transforms it into something resembling a modern Bond theme, blended with an astute sampling of an interview with Sandy: the effect is heartstopping...and then they pick up with a poppy take of Sandy's road lyric London, set to a tune by Thea Gilmore. Their new version of For Nobody To Hear has more than a touch of Little Feat about it. 
However, I must end, as I have on each of the many times I've played this fine record, by returning to the opening track. When Fotheringay released their album, Rolling Stone said of the album's one traditional song (Banks of the Nile, previously best known through Young Tradition's acapella version) - 'It is the best rock arrangement ever, simply that.' An Everest of a track for someone to cover: with shared lead vocals (solos leading into an army of harmony) and arrangement that adds the drums still beating, martial mournful brass and ultimately an unexpected, blazing lead guitar solo, all I can say is that Banks of the Nile 2024 is more than a match for its inspiration. Simply that.The same can be said for the whole album. Do they do Sandy justice? Oh yes, and so much more....