A Thousand Pokes is the most potent expression of Stick in the Wheel’s yet. Their songs ring with the joy of specificity and detail, the ferocious joy of marginalised voices making themselves heard, the angry joy of people reclaiming their heritage.
Stick in the Wheel announce their fourth studio album, ‘A Thousand Pokes’, described as a joyous lambasting of everyone and everything that’s wrong in the world, against the real-time backdrop of global uncertainty, corruption and political unrest. Listen to the title track and lead single.
Taken from their forthcoming Ruins EP (May 10th), which showcases collabs and remixes from Japan to Circassia, underground hybrid trad-electronic duo Stick In The Wheel release their new single today – the slow-burn grime-epic Ruins VIP. Watch the accompanying video by Zeroh.
Sheffield’s Jim Ghedi and East London’s Stick In The Wheel deliver a visceral remix of What Will Become of England, marking a repeated mood present up and down the land. An antidote to, or rather an affirmation of, the state of England’s politics.
Stick in the Wheel have released an icy, stripped-back, harder and darker re-framing of the dystopian trad-offering, The Cuckoo, on St Tiburtius Day (14 April) – traditionally the first day cuckoos are heard.
For Stick in the Wheel’s latest music video ‘Robot’, Hastings-based Zeroh rose to the occasion, constructing an animated robot out of LIDAR-scanned objects and tools found on the beach in Hastings Old Town. Watch it here.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise – despite Stick in the Wheel’s fearsome, uncompromising and unashamedly experimental attitude to folk music; the live recordings featured on Endurance Soundly Caged prove that they can still engage with listeners on the most visceral of levels.
Taken from their forthcoming new album ‘Endurance Soundly Caged’, watch Stick in the Wheel performing a new intense live version of fan favourite ‘Bedlam’.
Perspectives On Tradition functions as a chapter in a manifesto for how folk music should be made and how tradition should be thought about. Stick in the Wheel are fearless when it comes to following their own standards, the results are rarely short of astonishing.
Stick in the Wheel announce the release of Perspectives on Tradition, the fruits of an EFDSS residency and collaboration with Jon1st (DMC champion), Nabihah Iqbal (NTS/Ninja Tune) and Olugbenga (Metronomy). Listen to the first track ‘The Milkmaid’.
Stick In The Wheel announce a new tour celebrating their recent mixtape release, Tonebeds for Poetry – lost civilisations, inertia, beats music, sludge, drone, glitch and the sounds of the city, held together with ancient word-glue, repurposed to deliver vital, urgent messages for now.
Taken from their latest album Tonebeds For Poetry and featuring the artwork of writer, illustrator and printmaker, Nick Hayes, Stick in the Wheel have shared a visually stunning and haunting video for “The Seafarer”, a 10th Century poem.
