Author

Thomas Blake

Thomas Blake is an author, poet and music journalist who also works part-time in a museum. He has written two poetry chapbooks, both published by Red Ceilings Press: Ƨ (2023) and Peach Epoch (2025). His fiction has appeared in 404Ink and his poems have been published by Perverse, Anthropocene, And Other Poems and The Shore. He has been writing about music since 2012 and has a particular interest in the experimental, the modern and the weird. He lives in Swindon with his wife, two children and a cat.

Albums

Live review: Alasdair Roberts and Friends, The Lexington, March 6th

11 March, 2013

Folk Radio UK had the rare opportunity of catching Alasdair Roberts & Friends live at The Lexington last week featuring the talented line-up from his latest release A Wonder Working Stone.

Albums

Blue Rose Code – North Ten

8 March, 2013

On Blue Rose Code’s debut album ‘North Ten’ is shot through with an overriding sense of calm in which travel and rootlessness are abiding themes whose heart – as Bob Dylan would say – is in the Highlands.

Albums

The Leisure Society – Alone Aboard The Ark

25 February, 2013

The Leisure Society’s latest album ‘Alone Aboard The Ark’ is the sound of a band growing up…where this album succeeds is in the songcraft of Hemming and Christian Hardy.

Albums

Small Houses – Exactly Where You Wanted To Be

14 February, 2013

On Small Houses latest release ‘Exactly Where You Wanted To Be’ there is no musical sleight of hand. It is an ultimately pleasing paradox of an album: concise yet unhurried, simple yet demanding.

Albums

Rick Redbeard – No Selfish Heart

4 February, 2013

One of the main lyrical preoccupations of Rick Redbeard‘s debut solo album ‘No Selfish Heart‘ is time – its slipperiness, its sadness, the alluvial deposits it leaves behind in its passing.