end of the road

Danny Neill, alongside photographer Sophie Reichert, spends four days at Larmer Tree Gardens as End of the Road turns twenty, still sailing against the mainstream tide. YHWH Nailgun open with a sonic assault, Geese headline to an 80% approval rating, Ty Segall gets seen twice in one day, and ØXN spray-paint a space for folk tradition with murder ballads and drone-enriched codas.

With photography by Sophie Reichert, Danny Neill reports back from End of the Road, a brilliantly curated festival that still gets it right. Some of the shining highlights from a fully packed four days include Bug Club, Emma-Jean Thackray, Lisa O’Neill, Broadside Hacks & Mike Heron, Katy J Pearson, Jerron Paxton, Sharon Van Etten, Rosali, Scott Lavene, Muireann Bradley, Yoshika Cowell, Throwing Muses, Stewart Lee, Father John Misty and more.

Rough Trade Shops announce the release of End of the Road 2013 album compilation which attempts to capture the spirit of the festival which has been going since 2005.

Folk Radio UK talks to Bella Union’s co-founder and runner Simon Raymonde as they prepare to celebrate their 15th Anniversary at this year’s End of the Road Festival!

Canadian singer songwriter Leif Vollebekk has a lot of endearing qualities that you just can’t help but like from his care-free personae to his infectious smile and his ability to carry off the sparsest of ballads with unnerving confidence.

On this week’s Simple Folk Radio show Dillon will be present an End of the Road Festival Special along with studio guests including End of the Road co-founder Simon Taffe.

Jonathan WIlson coaxes his musical guru Roy Harper into his LA studio to record new album (first since 2000), plus: watch Roy Harper performing live in 1970 on Norwegian TV.

Patti Smith is to perform as special guest at End of the Road festival alongside the likes of Grizzly Bear, Grandaddy, Midlake, Beach House, Tindersticks and Dirty Three, Mark Lanegan Band, Van Dyke Parks, The Low Anthem and more

To celebrate their 15th anniversary Bella Union are to host their own stage at this year’s End of the Road festival.

End of the Road festival yet again evaded the wet weather bookending it, and returned to the Larmer Tree gardens in Salisbury with a new layout, new ‘The Woods’ stage and perhaps its most varied line up yet.

Caitlin Rose has announced a raft of headline shows, some of her biggest to date, testament to her growing fan base in the UK. She’ll be performing at Glastonbury, Camp Bestival and more. Plus watch her latest live session!

Despite musical beginnings a decade ago in Athens, Georgia under the moniker Fillup Shack, Matthew Houck’s better known Phosphorescent guise only recently crept out of the woodwork with acclaimed 2007 LP Pride, the lo-fi, haunted tones of which earmarked him as an artist of a similar highly praised songwriting stature to Will Oldham and Iron & Wine’s Samuel Beam.