Category: Folk
Streaming Round Up
Back from a short break and with a whole lot of musical catching up to do…here are ten new tunes we’re starting with. Have a listen too. a a a a a a a a a a Continue reading Streaming Round Up
Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (17th August)
A whirlwind week began with the Wilderness Festival (thanks Ronan) and ended with my liver feeling like it needs to be squeezed out and dried on the radiator. We have returned from Devon today in the pouring rain from five days with 38 big and small people in an Agatha Christie style house, where the sun shone and at times the rain poured down. There … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (17th August)
MM Shorts 208: Greater Pacific
Greater Pacific have a new album of “laid-back Americana” titled Incandescent, due out on the ever reliable Yer Bird Records (Sept 4th). The lead track is a peach, and it is available as a ‘pay what you want’ download taster from the record. Check it out and order from their Bandcamp page here. a Continue reading MM Shorts 208: Greater Pacific
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Introducing >>> Kitchen Hips
Kitchen Hips introduction to her music went like this “Folksy melt-your-heart tunes. It’s a buncha layered banjos and flutes and handclaps and a bit of kittycat vocals“. And so it proved, Tapered Apron is the name of her release, which is 15 tracks of well, layered banjos and flutes and kittycat vocals, available for a pay what you want deal from her Bandcamp page. Try … Continue reading Introducing >>> Kitchen Hips
New Single From First Aid Kit
Swedish folk duo, First Aid Kit are releasing album highlight Wolf as their next single – it will be out on 17th September on Wichita. They are also headlining a few dates in the UK around the same time. Have a listen and check out those dates. a TOUR DATES Fri 31 Aug – 2 Sept, End of the Road Festival Fri 7 Sept, Bestival … Continue reading New Single From First Aid Kit
Introducing >>> The Jar Family
The Jar Family hail from (broadly speaking), Mrs M’s neck of the woods, being an ‘industrial folk’ band from Hartlepool. We liked them before we heard them simply because their debut single, Poolie Strut became the most requested song in Radio Hartlepool’s history, and has since been played at all of Hartlepool United’s home matches, leading to the home faithful chanting the song on the … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Jar Family
Live Review: The Wilderness Festival (Day 3)
Day three and more sun, surely one the only sequences of three whole days without rain that we’ve had all summer. Despite 14,000 pairs of feet, the estate still looked rather fine and the spirit of village-green good naturedness was still at the forefront of everything. On the bandstand the Keston Cobblers’ Club provided the perfect soundtrack for the setting with a gorgeous set of … Continue reading Live Review: The Wilderness Festival (Day 3)
Live Review: Wilderness Festival (Day 2)
In addition to the Wilderness Olympic medal awards handed out by youngest sprat (see Mrs Mackerel’s post here) Saturday at the festival was another day of glorious sunshine, bizarre moments (badminton matches joined table tennis, the official skinny dipping world record attempt, miming cats and much much more) and a stellar musical line-up. The timeless, beautiful harmonies of The Staves set everyone up perfectly in … Continue reading Live Review: Wilderness Festival (Day 2)
The Mad Mackerel 