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Americana, Country, Folk, Indie, Music, Rock

Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo – Songs Beneath The River

For Record Store Day, Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo released a four track EP, recorded live to vinyl, consisting of some of their favourite covers. It includes Springsteen, Patti Smith, Tom Waits and Aretha Franklin. Although the limited edition run of 500 has long since gone, it can still be purchased digitally via Bandcamp here for £3.79. Have a listen to their versions … Continue reading Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo – Songs Beneath The River

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Live Review: Wilderness Festival 2013

And so it was Wilderness again (or Wildness if you were the somewhat disconnected and over-excited John Newman) – this year even bigger (an increase in capacity to 15,000) and still sold out. It is surely the premier boutique festival on the circuit in the undeniably stunning setting of Cornbury Park, which happily lies within a short walk of Mackerel Towers. By its nature it … Continue reading Live Review: Wilderness Festival 2013

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Acoustic, Alternative, Americana, Country, Electronic, Folk, Garage, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock

Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: December 2012

As might be expected, slightly fewer tunes make up our final monthly mix of the best of the downloads from MM – no panic tho’, the quality of new tunes on offer more than makes up for it. And as always, some new ones for you too means a top banana mix of twenty cracking songs to play in the New Year. The Cheatahs – … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: December 2012

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Folk, Indie, Music

Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo’s Choir Of Angels Session

A few weeks ago, Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo were invited down to the BBC Maida Vale studios to take part in the annual ‘Choir of Angels’ session for Dermot O’Leary’s 2012 Christmas Show. It’s a Christmas affair involving three other singer-songwriters, those being Ren Harvieu, Rumer and Kristina Train. Each chose a Christmas song that they wanted to cover and headed into … Continue reading Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo’s Choir Of Angels Session

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MM’s 5:1 Interview No 2: Emily Barker

Hailing from Bridgetown, Western Australia, Emily Barker is a compelling songwriter with a gift for weaving folk-inflected melody and beautiful lyrics. Her talent is perfectly complemented by the elegant arrangements of her band The Red Clay Halo, whose ensemble playing underpins Barker’s agile vocal blend of strength and fragility. Together with her band, she has recorded three acclaimed albums: Photos.Fires.Fables. (2006), Despite The Snow (2008) and Almanac (2011). … Continue reading MM’s 5:1 Interview No 2: Emily Barker

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Huge Video Round Up…MM Has Square Eyes!

Videos seem to accumulate in our in-box faster than we have a hope of watching them. However, having sat and watched and watched and watched and then watched some more, this then is our selection of the best we’ve seen. Wet Nuns are a band we like a lot singing songs as they do about women, death and beer. This is the video for Heavens … Continue reading Huge Video Round Up…MM Has Square Eyes!

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Frank Turner & Emily Barker Duet

Ahead of kicking off their UK Tour tonight in Bournemouth, Frank Turner and Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo have made a newly recorded duet available for free download. Called Fields Of June, and taken from Emily Barkers’ 2008 ‘Photos. Fires. Fables.‘ album, they will be performing the duet during Barker’s set on each night of the tour. Grab it below. a And the tour dates: O2 Academy … Continue reading Frank Turner & Emily Barker Duet

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Repost: Best of October 2011 Mix

To celebrate our downloads working again we thought we would re-post our best of the month mix from October – more than 20 great tracks selected from our October posts and six new ones too. This time you can download and dive in. Download The Minks – Araby mp3 (from Araby 7″) Endearingly gloomy slice of indie-pop. Download The Bloody Hollies – Dirty Sex mp3 (from Yours Until The Bitter End) The dark … Continue reading Repost: Best of October 2011 Mix

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Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: October 2011

Another month, more than 20 great tracks selected from our October posts and five new ones too. Download and dive in. Download The Minks – Araby mp3 (from Araby 7″) Endearingly gloomy slice of indie-pop. Download The Bloody Hollies – Dirty Sex mp3 (from Yours Until The Bitter End) The dark side of raw garage punk with touches of organ, violin and xylophone. Download Bare Bones – Hope & Feather … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: October 2011

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