Lush have announced another triple vinyl folk compilation, this time covering the 1980s that includes Jackie Oates, Eliza & Martin Carthy, Marry Waterson, Teddy Thompson, Lisa Knapp, Stealing Sheep and more. Watch Martha Tilston covering Kate Bush’s classic Cloudbusting.
While the well-reviewed film is currently doing the rounds, The Tape album stands perfectly on its own without the need for a visual narrative, a glowing testament to Martha Tilston’s ever-burgeoning songwriting, musical and vocal brilliance.
Taken from ‘The Tape’, the debut feature film by Martha Tilston (on general release from 24th September), watch ‘Sadness of the Sea’, a song inspired by how she feels when she sees the plastic that washes up on the shores near her home.
Martha Tilston has written, directed and stars in a film called ‘The Tape’ in which she plays a disillusioned songwriter drifting through life…until she finds inspiration at an atmospheric Cornish cliff-top house and records an album. Watch the film trailer.
Featuring the Afro Celts, Teddy Thompson, Eliza Carthy, Green Gartside, Jackie Oates, Marry Waterson, Stealing Sheep, Honeyfeet and lots more, there’s more than enough invention, inspiration and at times outright eccentricity to ensure there’s something that’ll push your instant replay button.
Tonight (25 April at 8 pm) in Putney, London, the Half Moon will be presenting The Clifftop Sessions with Martha Tilston & Guests incl. Wizz Jones. It promises to be a magical evening.
Martha Tilston takes us track-by-track through her new album ‘Nomad’ which is released today. Listen in full and read about each song as she invites us to make a fire outside under the stars, dive into a big green moon…
We recently announced that Martha Tilston is to release her new album NOMAD via Squiggly Records on May 12th. We have the pleasure in premiering her beautiful new video for Nomad Blood which was filmed in Cornwall.
As Martha Tilston announces details of her new album NOMAD released via Squiggly Records on May 12th take a listen to her new double A-side single ‘Nomad Blood’/‘Little Arrow.’
Our Song of the Day is a new song from Martha Tilston that was motivated by the recent refugee crisis, and to raise money for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
Purbeck Valley Folk Festival announces first acts of what promises to be one of the best folk festivals out there. Don’t miss it, we won’t! 27-30 August, near Swanage in Dorset.
Folk Radio UK has teamed up The London Folk and Roots Festival feat. the likes of Martha Tilston, Georgia Ruth, Foy Vance, The Full English, Maz O’Connor, Adam Holmes & More!
Listen to the latest in our mix series Discovered & Unearthed. We have some treasures from the past including Davy Graham and Traffic along with new music from Johnny Flynn and more.
Recorded in Cornwall with the salt spray in the wind, The Sea gathers Martha Tilston’s family and friends, the people who have inspired her music for her first album traditional folksong.
Martha Tilston reveals that her new album ‘The Sea’ is to be released in early October. She will be touring it in the autumn so don’t miss those tour dates.
Martha Tilston talks exclusively to FRUK about her new Traditional Folk album based around the sea as a theme, each song recorded with a different member of her family.
This year at Purbeck Folk Festival we went with Baylis Gray and filmed some sessions. Here is Martha Tilston performing ‘More’ from her album Machines of Love and Grace.
Martha Tilston is appearing at a number of festivals over the summer including Penryn Arts Festival in her home town followed by a string of gig dates.
