Johnny Whalley shares his highlights from this year’s Gate to Southwell festival including Anxo Lorenzo, Spiers & Boden, Gigspanner Big Band, Talisk, The Henry Girls, Banter, Damien O’Kane and David Kosky, Tom Lewis, The Breath, Chris Wood, The Young’uns and many more.
We chat to John Spiers and Jon Boden (our Artists of the Month) about their new album Fallow Ground that finds them reunited and revelling in the sheer fun of music-making rooted in the English folk tradition.
Kitty Macfarlane heads out on tour this October with her new band. To celebrate, we have a new video of her performing ‘Glass Eel’, taken from her astonishingly accomplished debut album “Namer of Clouds”.
Read the final guest post from Ye Vagabonds for their ‘All Boats Rise’ canal boat tour…they are joined by Leo O Kelly of Tír Na nÓg, Laura Quirke and Joshua Burnside and Brigid Mae Power. Don’t miss their Vicar Street gig on 25th September.
Springtime In New York, the latest Bootleg Series from Bob Dylan covering 1980-85, proves beyond doubt that Dylan, unlike many during this period, did not lose it in the early 1980s…so much of this strong material will rise deservedly towards the top end of the Dylan canon.
Taken from his forthcoming album Phenomenology, watch The Mining Co. video for new single “Deity Arrived”…Sparklehorse meets linguistic relativity…equally wonderous and mind-altering.
Della Mae deliver a compelling set with ‘Family Reunion’. Tracing themes of both loss and hope, it’s up there with their very best. This is one get together you will really want to celebrate.
One of Serious Sam Barrett’s stated aims was to release “a proper folk record”, he has succeeded admirably. The Seeds Of Love is a top-class release, sincerely delivered with alluring vocals and exemplary music throughout.
If her debut offered an initial promise that Kashena Sampson was a timeless voice for the years, ‘Time Machine’ is a 24-carat confirmation that she belongs in the ranks of the greats. Her gold will not tarnish.
The legendary British guitarist and songwriter, Michael Chapman has died at the age of 80. We look back at his fascinating music career and pay tribute.
We chat to Simon Moreton about his book “Where?” Following his father’s death in 2017, the author went back to his childhood home in rural Shropshire trying to process his grief by revisiting his family’s time as transplants to the countryside.
Taken from ‘The Tape’, the debut feature film by Martha Tilston (on general release from 24th September), watch ‘Sadness of the Sea’, a song inspired by how she feels when she sees the plastic that washes up on the shores near her home.
