Sheffield folk collective ‘Bright Phoebus’ which includes Martin Simpson, Jon Boden, Roy Bailey, Sam Sweeney, Fay Hield, James Fagan and Nancy Kerr will pay tribute to Tom Waits at Shrewsbury Folk Festival this year.
Spiers and Boden have come up with an inventive new tour that will involve fans across the UK. Backyard Songs is their new touring project which takes place over 30 dates in April and May 2013. Find out more…
Ducie is a pioneering partnership that will wow audiences tradtional and contemporary musi fans everywhere. Andy Dinan and Ian Fletcher join forces along with Richard Sliwa and Jon Thorne to work magic on their debut MANCUNIA
We catch up with the folk trio Tyde and talk about how they manage their geographically dispersed musical relationship and discuss their new album ‘The Hidden Spoon’ due out this month!
The First Ten is the long awaited debut album from Jack Day. Beautifully written and performed by the young singer-songwriter who has been become a ‘must see’ on the thriving London scene.
True Gents are a mighty 8-piece Collective from Perthshire, Scotland who include amongst their numbers Ross Ainslie and Gordon Duncan Jr (Son of the legendary piper). Their debut album is an absolute cracker!
We recently reviewed David Philips’ stunning new album ‘December Wine (4 track tapes)’ which we were so taken by that we asked David to record an acoustic session for us. Keep an eye out for his UK dates.
The Man Who Died In His Boat is the latest release from the ethereal sounding Grouper. Like the washed up wreckage of a sailboat that inspired the album it is stangely entrancing and peaceful.
Born somewhere between Finland and Norway and now located in Berlin Hanna & Kerttu adopted their finnish name from the Grimm brothers’ fairy tale which means Hanna & Gretel.
Woodkid has release a new video and single for ‘I Love You’. The video was directed Yoann Lemoine who also directed ‘Run Boy Run’, it is as visually stunning as those previosuly released.
One of the main lyrical preoccupations of Rick Redbeard‘s debut solo album ‘No Selfish Heart‘ is time – its slipperiness, its sadness, the alluvial deposits it leaves behind in its passing.
In 2011 Salif Keita met up with Philippe Cohen-Solal (The Gotan Project). Together they have breathed new life and new energy into Salif’s music. Talé takes further than it’s ever been before.
