Last month, London-based duo Milkweed announced their latest album, Remscéla, due for release on 2nd May 2025 via Broadside Hacks recordings. Their 2023 album, The Mound People, was conceptually linked to a 1974 text on preserved bronze age human remains by Danish archaeologist Peter Glob (who became famous in academia after his investigation of the Tollund Man), while last year’s Folklore 1979 (a KLOF Album of the Year and one of Tom’s Top 10 Albums of the Year), took inspiration from a 1979 academic journal published by The Folklore Society.
Remscéla turns to Thomas Kinsella’s masterful translation of the Táin Bó Cúailnge – all 400 pages.
Following the release of their lead single, Exile of the Sons of Uisliu, watch the video for their latest single, The Pangs Of Ulster, which tells of a curse that incapacitated the men of Ulster with the same pain felt by women in labour, something that proves pivotal to the story of the Táin Bó Cúailnge but is unexplained in the text itself.
Pre-Order Remscéla (Vinyl/Cassette?Digital): https://milkweedfolk.bandcamp.com/track/exile-of-the-sons-of-uisliu-3
Upcoming Milkweed Tour Dates
APR 29 // London, EartH Theatre w/ Shovel Dance Collective
MAY 2 // Todmorden, Nan Moors
MAY 3 // Saltair, Salt of the Earth Festival
MAY 4 // Salford, Sounds from the Other City Festival
11 MAY // Newcastle, The Lubber Fiend
13 MAY // Clitheroe, The New inn
14 MAY // Hull, New Adelphi
15 MAY // Edinburgh, The Waverley
16 MAY // Glasgow, The Glad Cafe
17 MAY // Glossop, The Globe
18 MAY // York, The Arts Barge
20 MAY // Cambridge, NCI Centre
21 MAY // Oxford, Common Ground
22 MAY // Hastings, The Pig
MAY 23-25 // Wiltshire, Acid Horse Festival
27 MAY // Ashburton, Ashburton Arts Centre
28 MAY // Hereford, Weidshire, The Speakeasy at Left Bank
MAY 30 // Aberystwyth, Fire in the Mountain Festival
JUL 4-5 // Cumbria, Mooreforge Folk Festival
AUG 1-3 // Oxfordshire, Supernormal Festival
Tickets: https://milkweed.lnk.to/Live2025