News From Topic Records April 2017 Pentangle - Finale (Record Store Day Exclusive)

Pentangle - Finale (Record Store Day Exclusive) For this year’s Record Store Day (22nd April) Vinyl 180, under license from Topic, will release a beautiful, deluxe 180g triple vinyl version of Pentangle’s ‘Finale.’ Recorded live during their 2008 tour, ‘Finale’ sees the original Pentangle line-up revisit their classic repertoire, a career retrospective for the halcyon years 1967-73. This limited edition 3 disc pressing of just 500 copies comes in two deluxe gatefold sleeves - the second sleeve holding the third disc and an original copy of the programme from the historic 2008 tour. The sleeves are packaged in a hardback casebound slipcase, making a truly magnificent collectors piece. Respected music journalist and long-time fan Peter Paphides provides a fascinating insight into the significance of these recordings by contributing sleeve notes specially commissioned for this 3LP set. The original 2016 2CD version of Finale is also available now from: TOPIC SHOP, AMAZON, ITUNES and on SPOTIFY New Topic Records Online Shop We’ve partnered with Propermusic.com for our new Topic Shop where you can buy all of our releases. All orders are despatched on a first class Royal Mail service or via our UPS / DPD / DHL courier service (All free of charge in the UK and only £2 Delivery worldwide). The BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards take place tonight at the Royal Albert Hall, if you're not lucky enough to be heading along, you can watch the show live on the BBC Red Button or the BBC website. Good luck to Shirley Collins and Nancy Kerr who are both nominated for awards. In celebration of their nominations, we've reduced the prices for the titles below in our new Topic Shop. Shirley Collins - The Classic Collection Shop now... Shirley Collins - The Sweet Primroses Shop now... Also available from Shirley Collins at a discount Heroes in Love (7") Simpson Cutting Kerr - Murmurs (deluxe version) Shop now... The Full English Shop now... Copyright © 2017 Topic Records Ltd., All rights reserved.  mailing address  Topic Records Ltd. 7 Fernie Court, Station Road UPPINGHAM, Rutland LE15 9TX United Kingdom Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list

Topic Records - Summers Coming

one summer’s evening, and the kids ran free… June 2016 marks the return to the stage of Simpson.Cutting.Kerr for a series of UK concert dates throughout the month. Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting and Nancy Kerr have been far from inactive since their last live outing in September 2015, with Martin continuing his very busy schedule of solo dates plus a tour with Martin Taylor, Andy recording and touring with Sam Sweeney and Rob Harbron as Leveret, (also picking up the BBC Folk Award for Musician of the Year in April), and Nancy Kerr collaborating with the Melrose Quartet, James Fagan and the Sweet Visitor Band. You can experience the infectious joy of three of the world’s finest musicians playing for the love of the music at 11 UK locations, starting at the Portsoy Festival on June 4th and ending in Salisbury on June 23rd. Full details of all tour dates: Simpson.Cutting.Kerr on tour The deluxe edition (CD and DVD) of SimpsonŸ.CuttingŸ.Kerr’s Murmurs is available from Topic at the very special price of £10, and copies of their two limited edition 7” vinyl singles are still available from the Topic online shop. Click on the sleeve images for more information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “…every song was a performed brilliantly and had a memorable story behind it. Please, please, please come back again soon.” Andy Nelmes reviewing Martin & Eliza’s May 2016 gig at the Wiltshire Music Centre. Martin & Eliza Carthy have been touring the UK during May, and still have several concerts to play in June. Click the link to see where they are playing: Dad & Daughter on tour   June 2016 special offers Peerless vocalist Christine Collister’s two wonderful albums for Topic are on offer during June at the very special price of only £6 each:     TSCD1001 CHRISTINE COLLISTER ~ AN EQUAL LOVE TSCD1002  CHRISTINE COLLISTER ~ INTO THE LIGHT   Our very good friends at Fledg’ling Records have recently reissued two sublime early 1970s albums by the mercurial jazz multi-instrumentalist John Surman. Westering Home and Morning Glory were originally released by Island Records, and became significant pointers towards his later work for the ECM label.   FLED 3093  JOHN SURMAN ~ Westering Home FLED 3101  JOHN SURMAN ~ Morning Glory Fledg’ling also have some special offers available from their eclectic catalogue, two groundbreaking albums from Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath, and a lovely collection of live and demo recordings from Shirley & Dolly Collins, each at the special price of only £6 each.   FLED 3057  SHIRLEY & DOLLY COLLINS ~ Snapshots FLED 3062  CHRIS McGREGOR'S BROTHERHOOD OF BREATH FLED 3063  The BROTHERHOOD OF BREATH ~ Brotherhood Dr. Reg Hall recently launched the latest two volumes in our VOICE of the PEOPLE series at the Irish Traditional Music Association in Dublin. His complete talk is now available to view online: https://youtu.be/zL1n-g4oloM

Topic Records in the pleasant month of May

'twas in the pleasant month of May In the Springtime of the year, Topic Records congratulates the wonderful Norma Waterson on her recent Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and has news of Record Store Day releases available now, along with special offers and details of SimpsonŸCuttingŸKerr tour dates. On April 27th at the Royal Albert Hall, Norma Waterson was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Given a rapturous reception, her stirring speech and spirited performance with The Gift Band stole the show. You can watch her perform ‘Bunch of Thyme’ by clicking on this link  to the BBC iPlayer: Bunch of Thyme Record Store Day 2016 On Saturday 16th April, Topic released an exclusive 7” vinyl single by Martin Simpson and some of his musical friends. Available only in independent record shops on the day, we can now offer this fantastic limited edition record by mail order. A double A-side, the single features Martin with Andy Cutting and Tom A. Wright on a brilliant version of Booker T. and the MGs’ Green Onions, and, on the other side, with Andy Cutting and Nancy Kerr on the classic ballad Willie Taylor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   Also available now is Fledg’ling Records’ exclusive reissue of a rare Shirley Collins 7” EP that originally came out on the Collector label in 1964; English Songs volume 2 comes in a replica flipback sleeve plus a new inner sleeve with rare photographs. Our current vinyl catalogue can be found here: VINYL May 2016 special offers This month we have four titles from Topic’s acclaimed World Series, at the very special mail order price of only £6 each:     TSCD 908  FOLK MUSIC OF TURKEY TSCD 912  MUSIC OF THE TATAR PEOPLE TSCD 919  THE MOKEN – SEA GYPSIES OF THE ANDAMAN SEA TSCD 920  THE YEMEN THIAMA   To celebrate upcoming tour dates by SIMPSON∙CUTTING∙KERR and Andy Cutting's remarkable achievement in winning Musician of the Year at the BBC Radio Folk Awards for the third time, we are offering the superb deluxe edition of their wonderful album Murmurs at the very special price of only £10.00   Reg Hall 'A Few Tunes of Good Music' To coincide with the latest two volumes in the Voice of the People series - "It was mighty!" and "It was great altogether!" - we have published Reg Hall's monumental history of Irish music in London. The result of over twenty years research and a lifetime of playing Irish music, A Few Tunes of Good Music is a comprehensive history of Irish music and dance in London from 1800 - 1980 and beyond. Much of the material is based upon original interviews and historical research. The book runs to over 1000 pages including many illustrations and an extensive discography. A Few Tunes of Good Music may be downloaded for free or viewed online here: Reg Hall 'A Few Tunes of Good Music' May and June sees Martin and Eliza Carthy on the road, beginning at the Cornerstone, Didcot on May 13th. Tour dates are available by clicking the following link: Elephant tour Martin Simpson continues his busy schedule of touring, with solo gigs and then, in June, SimpsonŸ∙CuttingŸ∙Kerr undertake an extensive tour: Simpson tour

Summer's Here - Latest News From Topic Records

Summer's here ~ Festival Season After a run of fabulous gigs earlier in the summer, and wonderful reviews for their Murmurs album, Simpson∙ŸCutting∙ŸKerr appear together again at two festivals over the summer, Cambridge Folk Festival on Sunday 2nd August and Towersey Festival on Sunday 30th August. The trio resume the Murmurs Tour on Friday September 18th at The Grand in Clitheroe, the first of eight more concerts. Check www.martinsimpson.com for more details.   You can also catch the wonderful Eliza Carthy & the Wayward Band at the following venues over the next couple of months: Friday 31st July : Camp Bestival, LULWORTH, Dorset Saturday 8th August : WICKHAM Festival, Hampshire Saturday 5th September : Robin Hood Folk Festival, RAVENSHEAD, Notts Sunday 6th September : COTTINGHAM Folk Festival Perfect for the festival season (and record collectors), we now have for sale a black tote bag with the classic Topic accordion player logo on one side and a 1967 Topic flyer design on the other. Continuing our monthly choice of music at a very special price, August’s selections are volumes 17 to 20 of the original Voice of the People set and 4 more great Fledg’ling titles:   another 4 volumes of the Voice of the People:     TSCD667  IT FELL UPON A DAY, A BONNY SUMMER DAY TSCD668  TO CATCH A FINE BUCK WAS MY DELIGHT TSCD669  RANTING & REELING TSCD670  THERE IS A MAN UPON THE FARM   and an August bundle of 4 more great Fledg’ling titles:       FLED 3017  RICHARD THOMPSON & Chums ~ Hard Cash FLED 3026  JULIAN DAWSON ~ Under The Sun FLED 3080  SHIRLEY COLLINS ~ Sweet England FIVE 005  DAPHNE'S FLIGHT Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick head out on an extensive 23-date tour in September, starting at St David’s Hall in Cardiff on Tuesday September 1st and finishing on October 30th at the Stamford Arts Centre in South Lincolnshire. You can see the full list of dates by following this link: Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick tour dates

All the latest summer news from Topic Records

The life and work of the very wonderful Shirley Collins is celebrated on her 80th birthday on Sunday 5th July in the Queen Elizabeth Hall at the Southbank Centre in London.   Shirley is a towering figure in the music world, her influence stretching far and wide, and some of the brightest stars in the realm of contemporary folk music and beyond will congregate to pay tribute to a woman who is, arguably, the greatest living exponent of the folk tradition. “When I sing, I feel past generations standing behind me… those farm labourers and their wives who kept the songs going for us. The songs are social history and their beauty and power undeniable.” This very special event will be compered by Stewart Lee and, with a band led by John Kirkpatrick, will feature performances by Sam Lee, Olivia Chaney, Lisa Knapp, Alasdair Roberts, Graham Coxon and Trembling Bells. The evening will also see the first-ever live performance of the whole of Shirley’s classic album No Roses. Further details can be found here: southbankcentre.co.uk   Available on the day will be a strictly-limited beautiful souvenir programme which will include a 7-inch vinyl record with four recently-discovered recordings believed to be the earliest Shirley made, in 1957. Perfect for the festival season (and record collectors), we now have for sale a black tote bag with the classic Topic accordion player logo on one side and a 1967 Topic flyer design on the other. Continuing our monthly choice of music at a very special price, July’s selections are volumes 13 to 16 of the original Voice of the People set and 4 more great Fledg’ling titles:   another 4 volumes of the Voice of the People:     TSCD663  They ordered their pints of beer & bottles of sherry TSCD664   Troubles they are but few TSCD665   As me and my love sat courting TSCD666    You lazy lot of bone-shakers    and a July bundle of 4 more great Fledg’ling titles:      FLED 3014  HOME SERVICE ~ The Mysteries FLED 3029  SHIRLEY COLLINS ~ False True Lovers FLED 3058  HELEN WATSON ~ Blue Slipper FLED 3084  JOHN KIRKPATRICK ~ God Speed The Plough SIMPSON∙CUTTING∙KERR news Tune in to hear Martin, Andy and Nancy when they visit Mark Radcliffe at the BBC Radio 2 studios for The Folk Show on Wednesday 15th July. After a very busy tour schedule over the last few weeks, SimpsonŸ∙Cutting∙Kerr appear together again at two festivals over the summer, Cambridge Folk Festival on Sunday 2nd August and Towersey Festival on Sunday 30th August. They then resume the Murmurs Tour on Friday September 18th at The Grand in Clitheroe, the first of eight more concerts Check www.martinsimpson/gigs for more details.