Paul’s Sunday at Cambridge Folk Festival begins with the Archers blaring out of the tannoy before getting back to semi-normality – Interviews with The Young’uns & the wonderful Sarah Jarosz.
To mark the reissue of two of Djivan Gasparyan’s classic albums FRUK were lucky enough to secure an interview with him, now in his 85th year, and planning a series of farewell concerts.
For our third nautical entry from the Dead Rat Orchestra Nathaniel Mann provides us with ‘Observations from abroad the Gemini II – A compendium of waterways thought’.
With Topic reaching its 75th anniversary, David Suff was kind enough to take time out at the Independent Label Fair to give FRUK an exclusive insight into the birthday plans.
In the 2nd part of our exclusive interview John Fullbright gets into more personal territory, discussing his musical growth, inspirations, his love of music and the place he calls home.
With their 2nd album The Call Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar prove the merit of two consecutive Folk Awards. They give FRUK some exclusive insight into their inspirations and much more.
We re-join the Dead Rat Orchestra on their canals and waterways tour ‘The Cut’. Today DRO member Robin Alderton shares his thoughts with us in this special guest blog feature.
We come to the end of our Sidmouth Folk Week Memories interviews as the festival is now well and truely underway. Our final guests are Oysterband and Steve Knightley.
In the first of a series of feature guest posts from the Dead Rat Orchestra we join them on The Cut – a canals and waterways tour from London to Bristol, crafting music from extensive research into these industrial and leisure arteries.
Our Artist of the Month for August is Dougie MacLean who celebrates 40 years as a professional musician, read our exclusive in-depth interview in which we look back at his career and to the future.
With a superb new album, Songs and a schedule that sees John Fullbright in the UK for two tours, FRUK caught up with him for an exclusive chat about his art and what makes him tick. (Part 1 of 2)
