Beans on Toast

Another week, another string of gigs for Notts music fans to get stuck into. Here, Impact Music takes a look at the highs – and lows – of the past seven days. TOY, Rock City Basement (28/11/2016) Following a somber performance from support act Prince Vaseline, the psyche quartet from Brighton...

During the lead up to the release of album number eight, A Spanner in the Works (listen here), Impact Music decided to give Jay, better known as “drunk folk singer” Beans On Toast, an interrogation about his musical career so far… Impact: So, to begin, why did you write a...

This December 1st, as with every December 1st since 2009, welcomed a new LP from Essex’s finest alternative folkie Beans on Toast. On his current tour, promoting this latest release, Rolling Up That Hill, we caught up with Jay for a chat about rowdy live performances, his job as a bin man,...

The innovative and amusing folk troubadour Beans on Toast passed through Nottingham on Saturday night with a fun, quirky set that involved and thoroughly entertained the crowd. Jay McAllister (Beans on Toast) started the night by addressing the many concerning issues that have been so ubiquitous the news recently before...

This was supposed to be a review of Frank Turner’s Rock City show on 16 November 2015, but I have to admit I cheated with this one.  That show was the second of a double header of sold out Rock City shows for Mr. Turner and I happened to attend...

The Grand Scheme of Things is the latest release from Drunk-Folk hero Beans on Toast. ‘Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose’ is an accurate cliché listening to this album, but this unoriginality isn’t necessarily a bad thing. By the sixth album a lot of bands will either...