Alex Gallacher

Listen to The Monday Morning Brew ft. Sinead O’Connor, Seth Lakeman, Rachel Sermanni, Emma Gatrill, Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O’Reilly, Cormac Begley, Martin Simpson, Lonesome Ace Stringband, Jake Blount, Nora Brown & Stephanie Coleman, Hot Vultures, Clifton Hicks, Anna & Elizabeth, Mama’s Broke & more.

Lankum’s fourth release, False Lankum, has been nominated for ‘Album of the Year’ in this year’s Mercury Music Prize. It’s been a long road but so well-deserved. Talking to BBC 6 Music they said “It’s pretty crazy, considering where we started off twenty years ago…”

Inspired by his time with the critically acclaimed The Lost Words: Spell Songs, Jim Molyneux has released his solo debut single, Every Road, which paints the scene of a broken relationship, and the stages of grief, denial, and ultimately acceptance which one experiences within that.

Benji Kirkpatrick has announced his new solo album, ‘In Phase’. The songs range from the intensely personal, such as the title track – released as a single today, to political and worldwide issues and the search for truth.

Taken from her forthcoming new album ‘Dreamer Awake’ on Navigator Records, Rachel Sermanni shares her new video and single ‘Killer Line’. The album connects deeply with ideas of the subconscious, and nothing embodies that exploration more perfectly than this track.

Taken from her fourth album ‘Aspirin Sun’, Emma Tricca shares the accompanying video to ‘Devotion’ on which ‘loss is brought into immediate, dazzling focus’…”Tricca is one of our most valuable and interesting songwriters, capable of strange and beautiful sonic flights of fancy and unexpected lyrical turns”

After the release of Sea Song Sessions on Topic Records and a mini tour by ship last year, Jon Boden, Seth Lakeman, Ben Nicholls, Emily Portman & Jack Rutter will be reunited once more for a short run of live dates in September 2023.

Toronto-based, acoustic power trio Lonesome Ace Stringband will release their sixth release, Try To Make it Fly, on October 13th. Listen to, and watch their video for, ‘Sweeter Sound’ – 100% pure joy, a killer combo wrapped up in an infectious energetic bliss.

Emma Gatrill has today announced her new album ‘Come Swim’ which will arrive on 24th November 2023 via Willkommen Records, and she has shared the shimmering and transportive single ‘Adonis Blue’; a collaboration with Villagers’ Conor O’Brien.

Taken from their sixth studio LP, ‘Shanty Punk’, Skinny Lister share a rip-roaring new video for their latest single ‘Company of the Bar’, filmed at the end of a garden in a converted shed known as The Forge & Flagon, their boozer of choice.

On the approach to his 77th birthday, Irish folk legend Finbar Furey announces his new album ‘Moments in Time’ and shares the video for ‘Kitty’, a song he was asked to sing for Shane MacGowan at his 60th birthday event in the National Concert Hall Dublin.

UK guitarist Dean McPhee has announced the release of his fifth LP ‘Astral Gold’, which combines influences from Dub, Underground Electronic Music, Kosmische, Post Rock & British Folk. It is his first release on his new ‘Bass Ritual’ label.