Broadside Hacks

Welcome in the summer with @Goblin.Band for May Day at @EartHackney Theatre, next Friday 1st May. Folk song, Morris dancing & more... Joined by @JimGhediMusic & @OwenSpaffordd , @JenniferBalladss and The @Belles_Of_London_City . Final Tickets 🎟️ @DiceFM #broadsidehacks #goblinband #mayday #morrisdancing #finaltickets

Tonight’s show in London has sold out. Here are the timings for tonight: Doors 19:30 Adam Curry (banjo extraordinaire) 20:00-20:30 Brown Wimpenny 21:00-22:30 Session 23:00-01:00 Luckily for those that missed out on a ticket, we will be playing another London headline on 12th June at MOTH Club. Here is the poster for it, designed by our very own @arkorbel Don’t sleep on it 🐏

Healers is out today on Broadside Hacks Recordings. You might have heard it before but hear it again💒 Also excited to announce my debut album Tinderbox will be out June 26th. You can pre-save now, and pre-order on LP/Cassette via Bandcamp Healers credits to @broadsidehacks @baumcampbell for releasing @lespauljames for production + guitar solo @jack_ogborne_ additional production Rupert Clervaux for mastering @belowthebeltproductions for the video~ @sam.sterland for directing and costarring @jakemurrayfilm for DOPing @rubysinclairr @just_willl for production @luigidalpopautchy for editing and colouring 💌

This Saturday, the incredible @JerronPaxton brings his timeless blend of blues, ragtime and old-time American folk music to @EartHackney in London. Fresh from live sessions on @BBCRadio2 with @Cerys6Music , and following his standout appearance on Later with @Jools.Holland.Official , Jerron is one of the most captivating roots musicians around right now. Saturday 16 May — final tickets on sale now 🎟️ earthackney.co.uk With support from @SpitzerSpaceTelescope . #jerronpaxton #london #finaltickets #blues

@hayliedavismusic will be presenting her debut album ‘Wandering Star’ at London’s @theatreship may 29th! Brought to you by @broadsidehacks . Tickets now on sale. 29 May: Theatreship Canary Wharf, London, UK ‘Wandering Star’ is coming-of-age debut that unfolds like a Townes Van Zandt tale set in a deserted diner off a re-routed interchange: intimate, cinematic and quietly fearless. Listen and pre-order in Limited Orange Vinyl (@roughtrade Exclusive), Classic Black Vinyl and CD with the ⛓️‍💥 in bio. “A cross between Emmylou Harris and the cult psychedelic folk singer Linda Perhacs, with melodies that beam through like Laurel Canyon sunshine” @rollingstone - Future 25 Artists “Gorgeously melodic, soft-focus confessionals that land with emotional precision” @roughtrade - On The Rise

On Saturday 27 June, the day after Tinderbox comes out, there will be a launch and signing at @nextdoorrecords_ Two at 3pm, so if you would like an extra long lunch break on that day then come by🌰

@jerronpaxton (@smithsonianfolkways ) returns to London @earthackney this weekend May 16, with support from @spitzerspacetelescope . Final tickets available from dice.fm

28 | 06 Jem Finer & Spider Stacy @thepoguesofficial In conversation with Donal Fallon @threecastlesburning (Féile MOTH) 📍 @lanzaroteworks Tickets on sale Friday 10AM via dice.fm Rocketing out of the vinyl, the three-minute blast of The Sick Bed of Cúchulainn is a perfect opener for Rum, Sodomy & The Lash: energetic but shot through with darkness and death while retaining an indefatigable determination. Shane reimagines Irish folklore warrior Cú Chulainn on his deathbed with operatic tenors John McCormack and Richard Tauber singing by his side. The song also name-checks Irish Republican Frank Ryan, who fought in both the Irish and Spanish Civil Wars. Indicative of MacGowan’s prodigious literacy and historical knowledge that informed his songwriting, it follows a similar – yet amped-up – narrative to traditional folk standard and Dubliners favourite Finnegan’s Wake; the protagonist is thought to be dead but revives to carry on drinking and carousing. “There’s a doughtiness there,” says accordionist James Fearnley, on how the opening track epitomises the album’s overall theme. “He’s just going to keep going. There’s a determination; despite the circumstances, we’re all going to live”. The album’s morbid mood is reflected by its sleeve. Suggested by Jem’s wife Marcia, it features the band members superimposed onto characters on The Raft Of The Medusa, a bleak 18th-century painting by Theodore Géricault that depicts dying and incapacitated shipwreck survivors floundering in turbulent seas, desperately clinging to the remains of a boat in anguish and despair, searching for a route to survival. It’s the ideal image to express the dark and haunted songs: the anti-war Wilfred Owen-influenced A Pair Of Brown Eyes and cover of And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda; the exhilarating but lachrymose Sally MacLennane; the plight of the Irish labourer in Navigator; the distressing ballad The Old Main Drag; the anti-imperialist satire of Billy’s Bones – and even the fate of an American Robin Hood-style folk hero. - Alex Burrows #ThePogues #RumSodomyandtheLash

Evening sold out, matinee now on sale. 📍 @theatreship Tickets via dice.fm 🎨: @caiowheelhouse #PierreBensusan

Field of Men by Spitzer Space Telescope #folkmusic #feeld

9 | 10 Mark Fry plus guests perform Dreaming with Alice This will be the first time ever the record has been performed in full. With support from Bridget Hayden 📍 @earthackney Tickets on sale now via dice.fm Mark Fry was 19 - had just left school and was in Italy studying painting - when he walked barefoot into RCA’s Italian subsidiary, played some songs he’d written on his guitar and was signed to record the album that would become Dreaming with Alice. Having been paired with members of the Scottish band Middle of the Road - who were in Rome while under contract to RCA Italiana - they convened in a basement home studio with two 4-track reel-to-reel recorders and Mark’s visions coalesced in a dreamy, airy manner - “Nick Drake meets Dr. Strangely Strange with a touch of Lewis Carroll” The Word Magazine would later write. #MarkFry #DreamingwithAlice

Excited to be partnering on some very special shows to celebrate Lal & Mike Waterson’s Bright Phoebus. Bright Phoebus Revisited celebrates the cult folk album, featuring family members Marry Waterson and Eliza Carthy performing the songs alongside special guests, including Lankum’s Daragh Lynch, Matt Deighton, Martyn Barker and Ben Nicholls. September 8 - LONDON - @earthackney / ON SALE 9AM TOMORROW 10 - DUBLIN - Dún Laoghaire Folk Fest curated by @foggy_notions / ON SALE NOW 12 - MANCHESTER @stollerhall presented by @manchesterfolk / ON SALE 9AM TOMORROW Bright Phoebus, Lal and Mike Waterson’s 1972 folk-noir masterpiece, has long been recognised as one of British music’s legendary lost records. Following the parting of ways of The Watersons and freed from the strictures of folk orthodoxy, Lal and Mike Waterson’s love of words allowed them to serve the needs of their songs in ways that weren’t possible when singing already written songs. Featuring performances from Lal, Mike and Norma Waterson, Martin Carthy, Richard Thompson, Ashley Hutchings, Dave Mattacks, Tim Hart and Maddy Prior, amongst others, the album is now recognised as a forward-thinking benchmark for the genre. Fans include Arcade Fire, Stephen Malkmus, Billy Bragg, Jarvis Cocker, Richard Hawley – the latter two performed the record themselves in 2013 on the Bright Phoebus Revisited tour. 🎨: Design by @caiowheelhouse #BrightPhoebus