My Name In The Brackets is something Boo Hewerdine has become used to. One of the UK’s most acclaimed songwriters gives FRUK exclusive insight into the compilation and his lifes work.
This year’s Celtic Connections is already looking to be one of their best – with the opening concert of the live world première of Martyn Bennett’s final masterpiece Grit it will take off to a flying start!
Our Song of the Day comes in the form of a new video from Scottish folk band Breabach performing an acoustic version of Hi Ho Ro Tha Mi Duilich which featured on their album Ùrlar.
The Radio Ballads legacy continues with ‘The Ballad of the Great War – 1914’ beginning tonight on BBC Radio 2 with songs written by John Tams, Billy Bragg, Julie Matthews, Jez Lowe and Sean Cooney.
These tribute albums can often be a hit and miss affair but between the quality of the source material and the calibre of the interpreters, there’s no weak link in this chain.
We have special video premiere today from Trent Miller. Lupita Dream On is the first single taken from Trent’s latest album Burnt Offerings. Watch it here.
Getting their timing spot on, The Once arrive in the UK on the European leg of their global tour supporting Passenger and also have wonderful Departures just released by Nettwerk Records.
A late night phone call to LA and it’s Lucinda Williams on the line, happy to give FRUK an exclusive insight into her latest and greatest album Down Where The Spirits Hits The Bone.
Daire Ó Breacáin and Lorcán Mac Mathúna have created far more than a recording; it’s a contemporary window on the work of the earliest bards, on the origins of poetry itself.
Our Song of the Day is from a duo that should need no introduction – Kris Drever & Éamonn Coyne. They re-visit ‘Wintermoon’, a song originally featured on Lau’s Arc Light album.
