Albums

Johnny continues his review of Towersey Festival taking in performances from Nancy Kerr and James Fagan, Lau, interviews with Blair Dunlop, Urban Folk Quartet and more. Plus a look at the future…

Another successful Pledge campaign sees the Jennifer Crook trio embarking from Carnforth Station on a journey that is about the spaces and places in between, where the magic happens.

Johnny talks through his Towersey Festival experience, a three part special feature which celebrates the festival’s 50th year & Topic’s 75 years – the first includes chats with Roy Bailey and Richard Thompson.

Such a measure of awareness in a man in his mid-20s is welcome and when it’s allied to music of this quality, land must surely be in sight soon for Gallery 47. All comparisons are irrelevant.

Cameron J Niven’s intriguing and accomplished EP debut is firm proof that he’s an important talent who most definitely deserves a much wider audience.

Jim Boyes talks exclusively to FRUK as Coope Boyes & Simpson are about to embark on a UK tour featuring a selection of material from their extraordinarily powerful In Flanders Fields.

Making a strong case for being the busiest woman on the Scottish music scene, Rachel Newton grabs a few moments to give FRUK an exclusive insight into her wonderful Changeling.

Yorick Cormack, erstwhile principal songwriter with Glasgow’s Endrick Brothers releases his solo album under the guise of ‘First Charge of the Light Brigade’.

Manna Frost Trio is very much the solitary endeavour of North Carolina singer songwriter Stacy Harden whose latest offering is a sure sign of a clear talent emerging.

Released this week as they start a UK tour, the Mareel EP was an excuse for Kris Drever introduce himself to some of his Shetland musical neighbours and he invites Éamonn Coyne along to the party. An excellent idea!

A unique collaboration, The Elizabethan Session sings the dreams, and nightmares, of paupers and princesses alike and encourages a new view, of an old story.

Watch Naomi Bedford performing Gypsy Davey with Justin Currie around a late night campfire. The song features on her new album ‘A History Of Insolence’.