Interviews

We catch up with the formidable folk trio Lady Maisery – Hazel Askew, Hannah James and Rowan Rheingans. We talk folk music, creativity and ‘spirited agitators,’ or ‘spirited alligators’ as Rowan likes to say…

Rob caught up with Modern Studies in Birmingham while they were on tour promoting their debut album ‘Swell to Great.’ While the tour is over the momentum created by the reception of their album isn’t as they prepare for their BBC Quay Session in Glasgow next month.

Today marks the release of Go Get Gone, the debut album from the tenacious duo Worry Dolls. They take us track-by-track through their new album which features some great songwriting collaborations backed by some stunning playing from Wild Ponies.

O’Hooley and Tidow, Lady Maisery and the irrepressible Grace Petrie take to the stage again to celebrate International Women’s Day. We talk to Belinda O’Hooley about the tour and more.

As Shake the Chains kicks off on tour next month featuring new and classic protest songs from Nancy Kerr, Findlay Napier, Hannah Martin, Greg Russell & Tim Yates with special guests we talk to Greg Russell about the project and have our first listen.

Following our recent premiere of ‘Sounds Like Help,’ the new single from Austin, Texas-based folk singer-songwriter Austin Basham, he found some time in his busy schedule to answer a few of our questions.

We talk to author and journalist George Monbiot and Scottish guitarist and balladeer Ewan McLennan about their album Breaking the Spell of Loneliness. “To this day song can and does continue to speak about the world around us, to document the undocumented, and to rail against the injustices of our time.”

Rob catches up with Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts and looks back on their career as a duo, this year marks the tenth anniversary and to mark the occasion they released a live album, recorded over ten different gigs during the spring of this year.

L.D. Brown talks in-depth about his influences, his forthcoming new album – which he reveals will also be his last album under the name of Grey Reverend, his ongoing struggle with focal dystonia, and his plans for the future.

In a special guest post from Hazel Askew of Lady Maisery (our Artists of the Month), she reveals their new video for ‘Order and Chaos’ and talks about the inspiration and the fascinating science behind the song.

Read our in-depth interview with Nancy Kerr as she discusses her new album ‘Instar’, the reaction to it, politics in music, balancing her musical life with being a mother, and she also offers her own words of wisdom on surviving in the music industry.

Read our guest post from London-based, half-German singer-songwriter and producer Vanessa Anne Redd as she talks us through her new album Behind the Wall which is out now on Sharp Attack Records. She’s playing a one-off London show at Servant Jazz Quarters on 9 November.