KLOF Staff

River Lea announces Fire Draw Near – an album of Irish traditional songs and music from the archives, compiled by Ian Lynch of Dublin band Lankum which will be released on October 8th, 2021.

We rejoin Ye Vagabonds who are currently on their ‘All Boats Rise’ tour. They update us on their journey after Belmont as they make their way to Ballycommon via Pollagh and Rahan playing gigs with Feli Speaks and John Francis Flynn along the way.

The Frank Burkitt Band return next month with Silvereye. Taken from the album, watch their latest video for ‘World King’, a scathing biography of Boris Johnson that carries a hint of optimism and hope for change.

Martin Callingham premieres a beautifully animated video for his new single Scully, taken from his highly anticipated sophomore album ‘Patterns’ due for release this November. Callingham clearly hasn’t lost any of his touch for painting in the pastoral light.

Stick In The Wheel announce a new mixtape release, Tonebeds for Poetry, with first track The Cuckoo. The album explores lost civilisations, inertia, beats music, sludge, drone, glitch and the sounds of the city, held together with ancient word-glue, repurposed to deliver vital, urgent messages for now.

Our Song of the Day comes from the legendary Mike Edison, noted New York journalist, musician, author, and provocateur who teams up with Andalusian Troubadours Guadalupe Plata for an epic telling of the story of John Henry.

Martha Tilston has written, directed and stars in a film called ‘The Tape’ in which she plays a disillusioned songwriter drifting through life…until she finds inspiration at an atmospheric Cornish cliff-top house and records an album. Watch the film trailer.

Steve Gunn shares his new single ‘Circuit Rider’ from his forthcoming new album ‘Other You’ and announces UK & European solo live dates for February 2022.

Dan Haywood announces ‘Country Dustbin’, a one-track album & book of poetry that attempts to come to terms with the clutter of a life in the 20th & 21st century…that walks a tightrope across the joyful, the sad, the wondrous, the banal.

The Clonakilty International Guitar Festival returns next month, as organisers attempt to once again electrify the streets and crash the internet of the coastal town with the sweet sound of those six strings via outdoor performances, virtual premieres and hybrid gigs (live-streamed with an audience).

Sam Amidon heads to the East Coast of the US in October, and onwards to the UK in November with more dates to follow in the new year. Plus, watch him being interviewed by Peter Broderick on the folk music tradition.

Amythyst Kiah talks about the song “Sleeping Queen” from her latest album Wary + Strange. It was written in 2016 at a time when she was going through a lot of emotional turmoil…it was also the same year that Donald Trump got elected as president.