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Boo Hewerdine and Findlay Napier are looking to fans to help them release their new album ‘VIP’ which features songs about people with interesting life stories.

Possibly the album Eddi Reader was destined to make as she connects through the new-town, Glasgow overspill of Irvine and across 200 years to the town’s most famous son.

The partnership between Boo Hewerdine and Brooks Williams is maturing nicely with this second CD Snake Oil filled with toe-tapping songs of the highest quality.

Dead can dance, or they would if they could. You wonder whether Lau have the power to raise the ghosts of the Union Chapel in an exultant, sold out return to the north London venue.

The latest Propermusic Podcast features Boo Hewerdine and Brooks Williams who drop by the studio for an interview and to play some tracks from their new album State of the Union.

State Of The Union (Boo Hewerdine & Brooks Williams) combines the talents of America and England with hook-laden songs, fiery and emotional guitar playing and soulful vocals.

★★★★★ The Alan Kelly Gang features Alan Kelly, Tola Custy, Steph Geremia and Tony Byrne along with guests Eddi Reader and more. Their début album is the perfect celebratory mix of a touring partnership!

‘All Along the Wall’ was an incredible and miraculous project which resulted in an album and show which is deserving of continued resurrection. So the good news is that Boo Hewerdine, Jez Lowe, Julie Matthews, Rory McLeod, Ruth Notman, Kate Fox, Elvis McGonagall and Kate Bramley will reunite for a further three shows in September 2011!

The following videos are from the Shrewsbury Folk Festival 2010 which featured a host of names I’m sure many of you are familar with including Bellowhead, Dervish and Andy Irvine, Genticorum, Nancy Kerr and James Fagan, Boo Hewerdine and Heidi Talbot to name just a few.

Roddy Woomble (Idlewild), Kris Drever (Lau) and John McCusker are set to repeat their 2008 sell-out concert at Union Chapel on Wednesday 10th November and on Monday 8th November in Leeds.

Here are some highlights for the forthcoming week from the folks at WeGotTickets, including Martyn Wyndhame-Read, Julie Felix,  Tom Kitching And Gren Bartley, Boo Hewerdine and may more!

Two-time Grammy-nominated Kim Richey opens her latest album with the title track “Wreck you Wheels” and the line “you can count the words…”. This is an album where the words do count. The album is woven through with emotional honesty and a multitude of co-written tracks with the likes of Will Kimbrough, the Jayhawks Mark Olson and the very talented Boo Hewerdine. These are treasured ingredients from a world of …