Mellow Candle

Willy looking very happy on a hotel balcony in New Orleans coffee in one hand, croissant in the other.....

On this day - 27 years ago (gasp!) - our lovely drummer Willy shuffled off his mortal coil.....still missed, and still loved so much! Here he is in New Orleans, circa 1984 or thereabouts.

Here's a #PromoSky specifically for the folk fans out there ( #FolkSky ???)

Let's be friends if you like:

🎻Fairport Convention
🪕Steeleye Span
🎸The Albion Band
🎻Seth Lakeman
🪕The Unthanks
🎸The Watersons
🎻Lady Maisery
🪕Lankum
🎸Stan Rogers
🎻Gordon Lightfoot
🪕Anaïs Mitchell

♥️&🔄 appreciated!

RICHARD THOMPSON - 76 TODAY 🎂
+ LIVE RT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_78...
🇬🇧 Singer, songwriter, & ace guitarist RT was a member of Fairport Convention & a wonderful solo artist.

Thanks to Fatea for this lovely review of Colloquy of Birds
www.fatea-records.co.uk/magazine/rev...

africanpaper.com/2025/03/22/a...
#alisonodonnell #gaylebrogan #albumreview #acolloquyofbirds #birds #folklore #mythology #birdfolklore #scottishfolklore #englishfolklore #pefkin #mellowcandle #davidcolohan #greymalkin #alandavidson #sonidopolifonico

👇👇👇!!!! Beautiful new album from Alison and Gayle...

Dónal was one of our earliest supporters, and the encouragement he gave us was (and still is....) a badge of honour.... this is so well deserved!

Day 10, A song that makes you sad. For me, Fairport Convention's Meet On The Ledge makes me sad, as it is now forever linked to the deaths of group members Sandy Denny and Martin Lamble. It's also one of Richard Thompson's most moving songs. youtu.be/K3uBlSnp-TI?...

YouTube video by Jon Wilks A Trip to Les Cousins

For fans of Nick Drake, Paul Simon, Sandy Denny, Martin Carthy, Bridget St John, Davey Graham, John Martyn... There's a new book in the works, and it's all about Les Cousins.

They Will Have Their Way: Legacy Plans Packed Record Store Day Slate Is it just us, or has Record Store Day felt a little muted in recent years? Obviously the annual Black Friday celebration boasts less titles than the festivities held every April, but it's sometime…

Record Store Day really seems to have shaken the cobwebs off a bit. Legacy Recordings is releasing some 16 titles, from ‘90s cult favorites to live albums on LP for the first time, Prince, Lou Reed and a whole lot more.

THANK YOU!! for your support for my album with Alison O'Donnell. We are so grateful at Sonido Polifonico for the sales so far.
Alison and I wrote this album remotely, taking turns to write songs individually before presenting to the other to add vocals and instrumentation.

If anyone wants a download for A Colloquy of Birds by myself and Alison O'Donnell for airplay or review, please give me a DM.
I should keep a database of this stuff but who has time for that?!

For the evening shift!
Announcing a preorder for a new album of mine - a collaborative record of songs about Bird Folklore with Alison O'Donnell (Mellow Candle)
On limited LP with one-off lino print (which are going fast) and cd on Sonido Polifonico
Coming out 1st April
Acid folk / psych folk.

A Colloquy of Birds, by Alison O'Donnell & Gayle Brogan 15 track album

pefkin.bandcamp.com/album/a-coll...

(Fovea Hex is Clodagh's current/recent work, btw!)

"If you are an expressive player, people can feel that. It is an emotional thing and becomes an extension of yourself"

Remembering Gary Moore who died today 6th February 2011

#garymoore #photography #music #MusicSky

📸 Gered Mankowitz

🙏lovely!

YouTube video by Pentangle Pentangle - Light Flight (In Concert), 4th January 1971)

Pentangle released Light Flight on this day 55 years ago (H/T @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social) Here's a great live version filmed by the BBC
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tyV...

Love Los Angeles: A Charity Compilation in Aid of the 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires Benefiting the Mutual Aid LA Network, by Hit the North Records 88 track album

New & Notable: A mega compilation of unreleased tracks and b-sides from artists in all genres in support of wildfire relief for Los Angeles. hitthenorthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/love-l...

Bob Dylan plots Spring tour dates and Outlaw Festival shows Bob Dylan plots Spring tour dates and Outlaw Festival shows, running in the US from March through to September

Bob Dylan plots Spring tour dates and Outlaw Festival shows

Backing vocals on this guy's album early 80s. Born Guilty by Colin Shamley. Poolroom break.

Better late than never.

Seconded.

Radio On ! Rewild your mind !
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b/w publicity shot of Mellow Candle, taken in London circa 1971. We look like 5 young hippies, which is exactly what we were. Everyone has long hair (us two lasses have LONG long hair), but only Frank the bass player has a beard.

Hallo Bluesky! Glad to be here, and look forward to hooking up with old friends from other places 👋