Fire Draw Near

New episode on the ballad Sam Hall aka Jack Hall aka Jack Caundle coming out today for all Patreon subscribers! campsite.bio/firedrawnear X

As ever, fantastic show! I especially loved Cormac Begley & Liam O Connor's "Ryan's Rant" and Junior Brother's bloody brilliant "Welcome To My Mountain".

Blackwater Side Podcast Episode · Fire Draw Near · 20/06/2025 · 52m

absolutely exquisite episode of @firedrawnear.bsky.social this time - Blackwater Side podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

FDN Episode LXI has just gone live! It is a lengthy heady blast through all of the amazing music that has come my way over the last month. The draft is full and rich. Drink deep and be let contentment be your wealth. campsite.bio/firedrawnear X

Review: One Leg One Eye, the Cube - 'Eerie and electrifying' Experimental doom folk from Lankum's Ian Lynch is a visceral experience

Thanks to @lglpalmer.bsky.social for this great review of the One Leg One Eye gig in the Cube Bristol last week! www.bristol247.com/culture/musi...

Holy shit!

We'll try our best! Great t-shirt!!!

A new episode, which looks at the ballad Blackwater Side and the journey that it took from 17th century to a Traveller site outside Belfast in 1952 and from there to the first Led Zeppelin LP. X campsite.bio/firedrawnear

See you there Rahul!

Tonight we play with the one (and only) Rich(ard) Dawson (the best) and Lou Terry in the Cowley Workers Social Club (Oxford)!!!!

Tour starts this week!!! 𓆙

Next month!!!

Best artwork we've ever used!

it a comedic children's song or is there something more serious and grotesque at play? The Old Man from Lee aka The Old Man fro Over the Sea. Get on the Patreon if you want to hear this one now, otherwise come back in a few months!

Artwork by Glyn Smyth

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Fire Draw Near Episode XVI — Fire Draw Near Episode XVI looks at the strange and fantastic life of the song An Droimeann Donn Dílis which was played and transformed by artists as diverse as Seosaimhín Ní Bheaglaoich, Lead Belly, the Weavers, Na...

If that’s something you find interesting, then you’ll love this @firedrawnear.bsky.social episode about an old Irish song that ends up making its way to Lead Belly overcast.fm/+AAjD__i9kHY

YouTube video by Guerrilla Radio 📻 Радіо Львівського метрополітену Geoff Berner — In Ale Gasn [Daloy Polizei! / A.C.A.B!]

"ACAB" et "tout le monde déteste la police" marchent déjà très bien comme slogans mais rien n'empêche d'ajouter "Hey hey daloy politzei!" au répertoire.

(Thanks to @firedrawnear.bsky.social for the discovery.)

FDN LX was recorded in a bedroom in a house in the 9th ward of New Orleans. Upon reflection it features many friends, peers and contemporaries, Leland Palmer, Ola Belle Reed and even Dickie Rock. It is online now. soundcloud.com/firedrawnear...

Duston church lych gate with early morning sun behind

#equinox early morning dog walking, listening to an old episode of @firedrawnear.bsky.social in the sun. Perfect

The sickos meme. A cartoon of a haggard-looking voyeur leers lasciviously with hands pressed against a window, exclaiming “YES… HA HA HA… YES!”

Me listening to the three-part podcast series by @firedrawnear.bsky.social on the history of “The Wild Rover” on.soundcloud.com/e329u99TDehw...

Just chanced upon this page and all these glowing reviews of FDN completely made my day :))) ❤️

Here Hare Here!

The Hares on the Mountain!!! What does it have to do with a knife in a window? It's all here in this transatlantic mash-up of a multi-faceted traditional song centered around nothing other than some good old honest-to-God rolling over of ones leg. campsite.bio/firedrawnear X Pic by Tesni Ward

Medieval butt music! Doom trad!! Cradle of Filth!!! The 1916 rising if it was an American cop drama!!!! All this and more in FDN episode LIX, out now in all the usual places! Xxx campsite.bio/firedrawnear #firedrawnear #endlessdescentofthetraditionaryweirdo #traditionalirishmusic

Probably!

Looks like I am one of said non roman numerally literate!

Yikes!

Episode LVIX out tomorrow at noon. That's #59 for the non roman numerally literate amongst you. Woooo!!!!!! X campsite.bio/firedrawnear

Christ. The most surprising thing is that is hasn't been massively defaced yet!

I'm pretty sure it wasn't there last time we played!

Did you hear the one about the Newry Highwayman? He travelled through time and space only to mutate into a watered down trope in a dull cowboy song. New bonus episode for the patreons out now!!!!
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