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Bristol Folk festival 2012 review feature

Bristol Folk Festival is back once more! And, if last year's version was the new and improved, 2012 was the super deluxe. Now, using every inch of the Colston Hall's golden megadome extension, punters were free to wander in and experience roots music's incredible ability to unite...more

10/05/2012

Seth Lakeman - Tales From The Barrel House

We have an exclusive stream of four tracks from 'Tales From The Barrel House', the new album from Seth Lakeman that is released today. Lakeman retreated for a while to record this album, literally from the limelight and from everyone close as he found this historical centre with ...more

01/04/2012

Exclusive podcast from Sam and Hannah with Mick Peat

Sam Sweeney and Hannah James have come up with a whole weeks worth of great content as our guest editors, as a little added extra we have a podcast from them. It's a great listen, presented by the great Mick Peat it's a fantastic interview and insight into their world. Other high...more

01/04/2012

Record Store Day: April 21st 2012

Record Store Day came into being in 2007 when over 700 independent stores in the USA came together to celebrate their unique culture. The UK followed suit and 2012 will see the fourth celebration of the UK's unique independent sector. This is the one day that all of the independe...more

28/03/2012

Ghosts From The Basement

“Lost songs, dreams and folkadelia - a reminder that outside London there was also a healthy experimental folk scene in Bristol, where Village Thing Records was home for an array of guitarists, singer-songwriters and exponents of what would later be called psych-folk.”- Robin Den...more

12/03/2012

Signed Albion Band album - the winners

The competition is over and the three winners are; Harriet Jones, Bob Lowtham and Jason Jackson, the CD's will be in the post to you in the next few days! We have three copies of the excellent new album by the all new Albion Band 'Vice of the People' to give away. The newly rebor...more

29/02/2012

What's Occurring? February 2012

Fresh from the delights and horrors of Celtic Connections, Colin Irwin spills the beans on all the gossip he can remember from the whiskey soaked nights. So it's news on Nic Jones, the new Imagined Village album, Eliza and martin Carthy recording a duet album, Seth Lakeman, Jim M...more

07/02/2012

Blair Dunlop Interview

We interviewed Young Folk Award nominee Blair Dunlop late last year. He talked about his solo career, the folk award nomination and the all new Albion Band of which he is a part. Blair’s new E.P., "Bags Outside The Door", is now available on Rooksmere Records. ...more

23/01/2012

Annabelle Chvostek - Interview for Spiral Earth

When Annabelle Chvostek joined the Wailin' Jennys in 2004, the rest of the world found out what a grassroots network of Canadian roots fans had known for several years: that Chvostek is a formidable songwriter, a versatile multi-instrumentalist, and a fearless and innovative arti...more