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Christopher Paul Stelling, whose Labor Against Waste we recently reviewed, had a surprise in store for more than just the audience at this year’s Newport Folk Festival.

Our Song of the Day comes from Jono McCleery with a cover of Robert Wyatt’s ‘Age of Self’. The track is taken from his forthcoming new album Pagodes. Wyatt released the song as a single in 1984 to raise funds for the miners strike. John Tams was on the b-side.

Gilmore & Roberts have unveiled their new video for Cecilia which features on their forthcoming new album Conflict Tourism. The album was produced by Mark Tucker and features Matt Downer (Jamie Smith’s Mabon), Phil Henry (Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin) and James ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson (Bonnie Raitt).

Following the release of her new album ‘Don’t Weigh Down the Light’ Meg Baird has announced a run of European live shows in September with Great Lake Swimmers. Plus listen to Good Directions from her new album.

In association with Soundcrash we have a pair of tickets to giveaway to Portico’s unique and intimate two night residency at the ICA 25th and 26th of November 2015.

Our Song of the Day is from a video of Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash performing ‘One Too Many Mornings’. It was recorded in Nashville in 1969.

Watch the new video for Head Above Water, the title track from Laura Victoria’s debut album, released 8th June 2015. Don’t miss her upcoming performances at Cambridge Folk Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Take your first listen to a track from the new album ‘Automaginary’, a mighty cosmic family jam and collaboration between Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas on Drag City Records.

Enter the world of photographic artist Anna Bean: “Like stepping through pages of dark faerie tales, trying on different heads for size. Imagery just as likely to be re-inventing a musician’s creative identity, as adorning gallery walls in ornate frames; her work is part dreamlike Dali; part magic realism of Dahl; part homage to horror and all Bean.”

Holly Macve is a 20 year old from Yorkshire and the latest signing to Bella Union. Listen to ‘The Corner of My Mind’, our Song of the Day, which was recorded in a bedroom of a small bedsit in Brighton.

It’s been a while since we heard from fellow time travellers Dirk Van Distanz and Bert Vertigo but they have returned to Folk Radio UK for a special Prog Corner featuring Trembling Bells. Listen to it here.

For those that missed Shirley Collins’ 80th Birthday celebration ‘All in the Downs’, a day-long event that was held at the Southbank Centre, Fledg’ling Records have copies of the Limited Edition special souvenir programme available.