@efolkie.bsky.social
I love folk music, support Torquay United and drink real ale. I also like railways, strumming guitars/dulcimers and watching horror movies.
Our Spring/Summer gigs season is live!
Check out the full programme and secure your tickets now: bit.ly/3LC7V73
🎻 Patsy Reid's new album "I Am Disposed To Mirth" features the fiddle music of Simon Thoumire. An exceptional performance of compositions that expand Scottish traditional music into contemporary concert works. December 5 on Bandcamp. handsup.link/patsyreid
04.11.2025 10:40 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Thanks to @nfsengland.bsky.social for inviting me to write something about the recent @efdss.bsky.social Black British Folk Takeover I was honoured to curate. You can read it below if you like 🙏🏾🖤
30.10.2025 11:34 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Israeli Police announce they have canceled a derby match between Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Tel Aviv that was set to take place tonight in the city’s Bloomfield Stadium, when fans began to riot.
www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
MP defends government plans to restrict repeated protests.
10.10.2025 09:37 — 👍 475 🔁 148 💬 35 📌 21The words Titanic and deckchair spring to mind
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Save the date! Saturday 4 October is a Black British Folk Renaissance and you are invited. I’ve nurtured this idea for a few years now, so I’m thrilled that @efdss.bsky.social will be hosting it at @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social See you there! 🖤 www.efdss.org/whats-on/26-...
31.08.2025 15:19 — 👍 54 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 0
Yup!
15.08.2025 22:07 — 👍 122 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 1
My fifth solo album, Needless Alley, is out on September 29th. You can pre-order it on CD, digital download, or blue translucent vinyl from the link below. Here's the gorgeous canal boat art by Alex Merry.
jonwilks.bandcamp.com/album/needle...
GEV S5 E1 - The team catch up with Jay Foulston #tufc
youtu.be/GK-7swAfiGc?...
The revolution will not be televised - but the genocide will be.
28.06.2025 21:06 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Why is Rod Stewart making Glastonbury political? Artists should just shut up and perform
28.06.2025 08:42 — 👍 1728 🔁 267 💬 185 📌 63I'm old enough to remember when the back benches were "noises off".
27.06.2025 11:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0See also: Israel has the right to cut off water and energy to Gaza.
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My statement on the government's absurd and authoritarian proposal to proscribe Palestine Action.
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Starmer Starmer Starmer Starmer Starmer Chameleon.
22.06.2025 16:15 — 👍 197 🔁 72 💬 15 📌 6"Is this low enough boss?"
17.06.2025 09:40 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New episode out today!
S4/E3 - Roud 33: HIND ETIN
Guest: @helenlindley.bsky.social
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
It's official! The Gigspanner Big Band have finally caught up with the 21st Century and all our albums (including Saltlines with Raynor Winn) are now available to stream on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon etc.
You can also listen/buy on Bandcamp which is much better for us at gigspanner.bandcamp.com
Daily Mail headline fron 24th Feb 2012: Millionaire minister Robert Jenrick forced to repay £122 expenses claim for car journey between his Newark constituency and London because he took the TRAIN and claimed for BOTH
Nice to see Robert Jenrick on #bbclaurak publicising his vigilante work on fare cheats. Hope he's got a mirror.
01.06.2025 08:55 — 👍 106 🔁 34 💬 12 📌 3
Elephants, Anthracites, Mandolins and Frozen Romans…
01.06.2025 08:05 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Let it die … in much the same way as Nick Clegg’s integrity has over the past 10 years.
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Library Book Sale: Bank Holiday Weekend
Saturday 3 May, 10am - 4pm
The Library is selling duplicate stock which includes vinyl, CDs and tape cassettes, as well as books and pamphlets on folk music, dance and song.
We already have some of the stock available to buy online now. bit.ly/3RtHQqE
Call for papers: Traditional Tunes and Popular Airs
A two-day conference to be held on Saturday 8 – Sunday 9 November.
Relevant areas include music for dance, broadside balladry, minstrelsy, music hall, pleasure gardens, domestic and children’s songs.
Deadline: 30 June 2025.
bit.ly/4lhPsds
I was away for all of last week and didn't get a moment to post about the episode.
Out now!!
S3/E7 - Roud 27: THE BONNIE BANKS OF FORDIE
Historical guest: Brian Peters
Singer guest: Katie Macfarlane
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
EXCITING NEWS: You can now pre-order the wonderful compilation SING YONDER 2 - featuring 13 takes on some splendid traditional folk songs by the likes of ourselves. We have taken on a murder ballad called 'The Cruel Ship's Carpenter'. karlsinfield.bandcamp.com/album/sing-y...
14.03.2025 18:37 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Bandcamp Friday fill your boots! henryparker.bandcamp.com/album/chasin...
07.03.2025 11:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I have a solo gig in Sheffield this Sunday, co-headlining with trad singer Jill Pidd. It’s a new venture and we want to get the word out, can you help by sharing? Thankyou!
wegottickets.com/event/649011
Confronted by increasing social dislocation and an escalating cost-of-living crisis, artists across the UK and Ireland are turning to the arcane mysteries and myths of yesteryear to alleviate omnipresent modern-day malaise.
05.03.2025 21:54 — 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
28.02.2025 06:01 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
