Pock’n’Roll. Pock and awe. Pock ’til you drop. Top of the Pocks. The only thing better than attempting a bit of word play relating to Pocktoberfest was actually being there. You may not have heard of Pocktoberfest. You probably haven’t…
Competition | Win a Sandy Denny goodies
This week saw the release of Sandy Denny – The Notes & The Music – A Collection of Demos and Rarities, a four-CD box set celebrating some of the lesser known works of one of the UK’s best-loved folk singers.…
News | Eels line up 10th album
More than 15 years after they first burst on to the scene with ‘Novocaine For The Soul’, Eels show no sign of sputtering out. Mark ‘E’ Everett has announced the band’s 10th studio album ‘Wonderful, Glorious’ will be released on…
Live | Bellowhead @ The Water Rats
When Charles Dickens reported “There was an abundance of lights, and there was music… the whole building looked to me as if it were learning to swim,” he was not describing a Bellowhead gig, rather David Copperfield’s first experience of…
Blog | For Folk’s Sake on 6 Music’s Now Playing
Tom Robinson and his team kindly invited us to pick some tracks for his Now Playing show tonight. It’s always so exciting to get to work with 6 Music. The station does such a wonderful service for new music, and…
Track-by-track | Shel – Shel
From up on high in Fort Collins, Colorado come SHEL, four sisters who have taken their classical training on piano, violin, harp and mandolin and put it to use to create their own brand of folk-pop. Almost a decade of…