Don’t expect wistful nostalgia, Joe and Billy perform these robust songs because they love them and that passion is persuasive. If you don’t already, you’ll end up loving them too. And it’s a journey well worth taking, particularly alongside these two travelling companions.
We have a very special premiere today from new duo Aidan O’Rourke (Lau) and Kit Downes (Trokya/Squarepusher). This new demo has come straight from the studio and is also our Tune of the Day.
Listen to ‘Reasons’, the lead track from Pete Falloon’s forthcoming new album, a beautiful folk pop number, which has a vibrant, narrative lyricism running through the instrumentation that invokes a pastoral nostalgia.
Combining a mix of original compositions and their arrangements of traditional music and song, NEWiD is as fine a showcase as you’ll find of their unique vision of “Celtic music for the 21st century” and is sure to become a firm favourite of long-term fans and newcomers alike.
Ryley Walker seems to have taken what Pentangle were doing, added his own voice and a shed load of influences and given it back to us writ large for the 21st Century. Don’t miss his European tour dates in November / December.
Watch the new video from Curse of Lono (formed by Felix Bechtolsheimer of British roots pioneers HEY NEGRITA) taken from their self-titled debut EP on October 14th. To mark the release they will be embarking on their first UK tour this Autumn with Texan roots rockers Uncle Lucius.
Megson head out on tour in support of their latest album ‘Good Times Will Come Again’. An album whose songs are “important, often vital subjects…very few others in any genre of music have the courage to raise them, let alone fill a whole album’s worth.”
Rob captures in words and images a captivating set and a fantastic evening of acoustic music at Kenilworth Arts Festival featuring Rachel Sermanni, Luke Jackson and Kitty Macfarlane.
Paul Goodwin’s latest offering is a quietly unassuming album, but it creeps up on you and hits you in the solar plexus of your mid-life crisis, leaving you winded, but grateful to be still breathing.
Our latest mix is chock full of new music from the likes of Nessi Gomes, Lisa Hannigan, Ruth Theodore, Kaia Kater, The Gentle Good and more plus some vintage tunes from Led Zeppelin (live in Paris), The Amazing Blondel and Tim Hardin.
Ruth Theodore’s reputation for delivering a fresh sound has certainly stood the test of time as you can hear on ‘Man of the Land,’ our Song of the Day, taken from her forthcoming new album Cactacus.
As part of a series of exclusive videos to Folk Radio UK watch The Gentle Good performing Pen draw’r Byd (The far side of the world) from his forthcoming new album Ruins/Adfeilion, recorded live at The Gate Arts Centre in Cardiff.
