Emily barker

To mark the release of her new Toerag Sessions album Emily Barker heads out on tour this month with Gill Sandell who also has an album out (with Chris T-T) on 23 March. Emily has also announced her album launch plus solo dates and record store appearances. Watch her latest video for Little Deaths and get those all important dates in your diary.

Our Song of the Day is Little Deaths, the opening track from Emily Barker’s new album The Toerag Sessions which is available to pre-order from Bandcamp today. The album was recorded live direct to tape at the legendary Toe Rag Studios in London. It’s a totally analogue using authentic 50s and 60s gear – the real deal.

Emily Barker announces new solo album The Toerag Sessions, produced by Liam Watson who mixed and engineered The White Stripes break-through album “Elephant”. You can pre-order the album via Pledge Music.

Helen captures one the final gigs from Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo at St James Church. Plus a we have a special Neil Young cover performed at Union Chapel.

We have a very special video premiere today from Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo for Letters. Plus we’ve some special tour news and more.

In their most recent newsletter to fans Emily Barker announced that the upcoming tour with The Red Clay Halo is be her last, for a while at least.

Watch our latest Purbeck Session from Emily Barker performing ‘Home’ . It was filmed during the recent Purbeck Folk Festival in a nearby woodland.

More than the sum of its parts, Vena Portae joins Emily Barker, Dom Coyote and Ruben Engzell for a wonderful album of superbly crafted songs, further enhanced by the bonus disc of remixes.

Following on from their debut single remix by Peter, Bjorn & John’s Peter Morén, Emily Barker has now unveiled the debut video from her new band Vena Portae.

Our Song Of The Day is from Anglo-Swedish alt-folk band Vena Portae, comprised of Emily Barker, Dom Coyote & Ruben Engzell. Remixed by Peter Morén (lead singer of Peter, Bjorn and John).

Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo announce UK tour dates and Emily provides our song of the day – a cover of a song by Christian Kjellvander who will be supporting them on tour.

Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo release a strictly limited Record Store Day EP recorded direct to vinyl. In this FRUK video exclusive she explains the choices and the process.

Watch a wonderful live performance of Emily Barker performing ‘Nostalgia’ at Union Chapel, London…a track that changed her career.

In part 5 of our Best Albums of 2013 we feature Lal Waterson, Lisa Knapp, The Full English, Dan Haywood, The R.G. Morrison, Ruth Theodore, Barrule, Aidan O’Rourke and more.

Just a week into a 28-date UK tour, Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo rolled into town and proceeded to tear the roof off a packed house at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire. Helen was there for FRUK.

Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo are set to release the new double A-side single Ghost Narrative / Tuesday on 11th November to coincide with the band’s biggest ever UK tour. Listen to it here.

Emily Barker reveals her love for caffeine in the first of her coffee-inspired videos covering Peggy Lee’s ‘Black Coffee’.

Folk in a Box is one of those concepts so simple that it could only be either a harebrained idea doomed to failure, or a flash of genius bound for success.