We continue our series of video sessions with Before The Gold Rush. The latest features Tom Hyatt, a singer/songwriter known on London circuits for dynamic performances, forthright lyrics and an expectation-defying musicality.
Watch the full-length film ‘Davy Graham & Bert Jansch: The Parting Glass’. Filmed in 2005 when Davy was travelling to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe with Bert Jansch.
Our Song of the Day is from Nick Dellar, a self-taught solo fingerstyle guitarist who is now based in his adopted home of County Leitrim, Ireland. Lost Holiday (an shaoire caillte) is taken from his album The Alder Tree’s Year.
Our Song of the Day comes from Michael Rank and Stag. Horsehair is his latest album which features the vocals of Heather McEntire (Mount Moriah) and a supporting cast of some of ‘North Carolina’s premier pickers and players’
The Tinder Box are a core trio that hail from Sioux Falls in south-eastern South Dakota. Previously featured on Folk Radio the band have just released their new album The Neener Circle Sessions from which you can hear the song Two Bloody Feet.
Yo La Tengo have revealed their new video for their cover of The Cure’s ‘Friday I’m In Love’ from their new forthcoming album Stuff Like That There, out August 28th on Matador Records. Watch it here.
Our Song of the Day comes from Little Arrow with the song ‘Bills‘ which is taken from their new album Old Ink. The album is being released as a limited Zine which features artwork from band members alongside submissions from a range of artists, designers, writers and illustrators.
Our Song of the day is a newly recorded version of Alasdair Robert’s Coral & Tar which features long-time friends Trembling Bells and Neil McDermott on fiddle.
Before The Gold Rush, one of London’s finest folk, roots and acoustic live music nights has teamed up exclusively with Folk Radio UK for a series of live session films. The first is with award-winning singer and songwriter Jack Harris. Watch it here.
Our Song of the Day is from American gospel and soul singer Leon Bridges performing ‘River’ live in Paris for A Take Away Show session for French music website La Blogotheque.
Black Apples of Gower is the latest non-fictional offering from Iain Sinclair in which he is drawn back to the South Wales of his childhood and the scenic Gower Peninsula – a quest that leads him to the mysterious Paviland Caves and the site of the first recorded ritual burial in these islands.
Our Song of the Day is James Nolan Laid To Rest / The Asquith Inquiry from Irish band The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock. The songs feature on their new project ‘Lockout’ which commemorates the 100th anniversary of the 1913 Dublin Lockout.
