New Yorkers Scott Rudd and Jo Schornikow (The Shivers) are spending July 2012 touring the UK together, around the Fence Records Away Game Festival July 21-23. Get the dates and some free tracks!
We introduced you to alt-folk Portland (Oregon) based band Greylag back in July last year. The band have recently relased an EP titled The Only Way To Kill You from which you can download a free track below.
If the DIY house show circuit has a pied piper, his name is Brendon Massei of Viking Moses who features in session this week on Simple Folk Radio (first broadcast 16th June).
The Speyside Sessions is a music project led by actor Kevin McKidd and best friend James D. Reid which celebrates Scottish traditional folk songs from Burns to bothy ballads. Profits go to the charity Save the Children.
Of Monsters and Men, an Icelandic band we introduced about a year ago have been getting some well deserved recognition. Watch this recent backstage session of them performing ‘Mountain Sound’ from their debut album.
Read our interview with Simon Emmerson of the Imagined Village in which he discusses their latest release ‘Bending the Dark’, he talks about some of the dificulties faced in making the album alongside some of the more exhilarating.
The fabulous Icelandic Snorri Helgason Trio featuring (with Silla & Gummi) recently recorded an Aretha Franklin’s “Do Right Woman, Do Right Man” during a soundcheck in Paris. Watch it below.
The Dead Rat Orchestra are well known for their unconventional approach to music and their latest release ‘The Guga Hunters of Ness’ which originally took the form of a film score is the perfect example of them at their innovative best.
Paddy Steer has done a great remix of Vadoinmessico ‘In Spain’ which you can listen to below. Anyone familiar with Paddy’s 2009 release ‘Dragon’s Breath’ will know of his incredible ability in sound creation.
Folk Songs II is the follow up release from The Big Eyes Family Players which features a plethora of fine guests including Alasdair Roberts, Nancy Elizabeth, James Yorkston, Elle Osborne, Mary Hampton, Adrian Crowley, James William Hindle, Heather Ditch and Sharron Kraus.
Bert Jansch – Young Man Blues: Live in Glasgow (1962-64) is to be released on vinyl for the first time as 1000 hand-numberd copies on 180g vinyl. Folk Radio UK has a number of copies available!
Join us at Priddy Folk Festival this year as they celebrate their 21st Anniversary in style. Artists include: Spiers & Boden, Spiro, Jackie Oates Band, John McCusker, John Doyle & Mike McGoldrick, Heidi Talbot & Boo Hewerdine and lots more!
