Hop Farm Festival Set To Return in 2014

Uncut Magazine and others have reported that the Hop Farm Festival is set to return next summer, despite being called off this year because of poor ticket sales and going into administration following the 2012 event.

Kent Online reports that the festival will be run by a new promoter, thought to be Flashback Festival's Neil Butkeratis. The festival's head of marketing, Miguel Fenton, stated: "The event is going ahead, which is great news. There will be a fresh approach under a new promoter." A spokesperson for UK Events added: "It will be more of a boutique festival with a new promoter and line-up." It will staged over the weekend of 4-6 July 2014 and cater for 20,000 punters

Let's wait and see....

Lincolnshire Sings!

 

Lincolnshire Sings!

Putting community singing on the map in Lincolnshire

 

 

 

Community choirs and choral groups across Lincolnshire are invited to contribute to a mapping project which will enable opportunities for people to sing for fun to be identified and signposted.

 Choral ensembles, glee and folk clubs, social singers, barbershop choruses and amateur operatic groups in addition to church, gospel and community choirs are all invited to join the ‘Lincolnshire Sings!’ register, which is being managed by soundLINCS on behalf of Lincolnshire Music Service. Participating organisations are simply asked to complete a short questionnaire: the mapping and dissemination of the information provided is then monitored by the soundLINCS team in accordance with the guidelines of the Data Protection Act.

‘We’re looking forward to hearing from hundreds of choirs from all over Lincolnshire!’ says soundLINCS CEO Nikki-Kate Heyes. ‘Their feedback will enable us to build a resource which will not only show how much singing goes on in our communities, but which may ultimately influence funding decisions, encourage new singers and help identify performance opportunities. It could even lead to choirs sharing their enthusiasm with others, whether by working with local schools or with other music-making groups.’

The initiative is an extension of the ‘Lincoln Sings’ project (see group Facebook page) which has already established that there are more open choirs than supermarkets in Lincoln city alone.

For more details on ‘Lincolnshire Sings!’ and a copy of the questionnaire, please e-mail jill@soundlincs.org
soundLINCS is a community music organisation operating across the East Midlands.

 

 

Neil Young Live At The Cellar Door Released Dec 10

Neil Young will release Live At The Cellar Door, the latest in his Archives Performance

Series, on December 10th on Reprise Records.

The album collects recordings made during Young's intimate six-show solo stand at The Cellar Door in Washington D.C. between November 30th and December 2nd, 1970, a few months after Reprise released his classic third solo album After The Gold Rush in August. Of the many unique gems found on Live At The Cellar Door, a rare solo version of "Cinnamon Girl" performed on piano rather than guitar is a particular treasure for Neil fans (the full band version appears on Young's 1969 second solo album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere).

The album, which features Young performing on acoustic guitar and piano, includes tracks that are interesting for several reasons, such as stunning live versions of songs that appeared on After The Gold Rush ("Tell Me Why," "Only Love Can Break Your Heart," "Birds," "Don't Let It Bring You Down" and the title track) and solo performances of the Buffalo Springfield songs "Expecting To Fly" (from their 1967 second album Buffalo Springfield Again), "I Am A Child" (from their third and final album Last Time Around and Young's 1977 Decade compilation), and "Flying On The Ground Is Wrong," from their 1966 self-titled debut.

In addition, Live At The Cellar Door features early, raw performances of songs that wouldn't appear until subsequent Young albums, including the rarity "Bad Fog Of Loneliness" (which appears on Live At Massey Hall '71 - released in 2007-- but was previously unreleased until the studio band version was included on Archives Vol. 1 1963-1972) and "Old Man" (released two years later on 1972's Harvest album). "Down By The River," also from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, rounds out the spectacular set.

Live At The Cellar Door was recorded by Henry Lewy and produced by Young.

As with Young's previous releases in the Archives series, Live At The Cellar Door will be released digitally, on CD, and on 180-gram vinyl (mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering and pressed at Pallas in Germany).

The track-listing for Live At The Cellar Door is as follows:

Side One:
Tell Me Why
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
After The Gold Rush
Expecting To Fly
Bad Fog Of Loneliness
Old Man
Birds
Side Two:
Don't Let It Bring You Down
See The Sky About To Rain
Cinnamon Girl
I Am A Child
Down By The River
Flying On The Ground Is Wrong

www.neilyoung.com   

The Blues Band at Lincoln Drill Hall 31 October.

Thursday 31 October 8pm @ Lincoln Drill Hall

The Blues Band

 

 

The Blues Band was formed in 1979 by ex Manfred Mann group members Paul Jones and Tom McGuinness, originally to play a few pub gigs. Slide guitar ace and vocalist Dave Kelly were recruited, Gary Fletcher filled the bass post. Rob Townsend of Family Fame replaced Hughie Flint in 1982 at the drums. And the rest, as they say, is history! This show features a brilliant selection from their new studio album Few Short Lines which is collecting rave reviews everywhere.

Tickets: £18 adv (£20 on the day) from 01522 873894

 

Lincoln Drill Hall, Free School Lane, Lincoln. LN2 1EY  www.lincolndrillhall.com  boxoffice@lincolndrillhall.com

 

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Movember is Back in Black at Lincoln Drill Hall!

Movember is Back in Black at Lincoln Drill Hall!

It's time. In 2013 The Brothers at Lincoln Drill Hall are taking to the streets, inspiring change, and motivating others to join the good fight. THEY are letting the world know Generation Moustache is here. There is strength in numbers and, unite...d under one flag, THE BROTHERS will battle for change. Crank up the volume, make some noise and join them. This is Movember. You are Generation Moustache. They are Gen Mo.

The Brothers are hoping that all Friends of Lincoln Drill Hall and staff, who have the ability and desire to grow facial hair are again up for the challenge that folk like to call Movember.

You are invited to grow a moustache during the month of November and help raise funds to help fight that old baddie known as testicular cancer.

If you are up for the challenge just email keith@bluecrowmusic.co.uk   and you will be contacted with more exact details later.

Please feel free to invite anyone who might like to be included to take part..

 The Brothers can’t afford to let Dan win again or else he will become completely intolerable!

 

Rita Payne; Check Them Out!

After only being together a year, Rhiannon Scutt and Pete Sowerby of the folk, blues and roots duo Rita Payne have achieved a great deal including a debut album, television appearances, numerous National and International Radio air time and are the ‘go to’ opening act for many International Folk and Blues Artists across the UK.

 

Rhiannon and Pete have known each other since their first day of secondary school back in 2000, but decided to write music together only a year ago when Rhiannon accidentally called Pete while he was holidaying in Spain. From there, the Doncaster duo decided to meet up and try being a covers outfit to earn a bit of cash in pubs. However, after one rehearsal, they began writing songs. After compiling a playlist of around 20 self penned tunes, and mixing their names up to create a new one - Rita Payne set out to conquer the Doncaster pub scene.
After totting up well over 100 gigs in the first six months, Rita Payne began to attract the attention of reputable music venues due to their intriguing blend of folky harmonies, bluesy riffs and the fact they use a suitcase as a bass drum! They suddenly found themselves transported from playing to a handful of people in a pub, to hundreds in venues such as The Leadmill in Sheffield, The Dome in Doncaster and Tramlines Festival in Sheffield.

Subsequently after a chance meeting with renowned producer Keith Angel at a local gig, Rita Payne began to record their debut album - “Stories From a Suitcase.”

"Stories from a Suitcase is an assured set of songs, delivered with panache. It's hard to credit this is a début recording, the song writing is that good" - R2 Magazine 2013

“_A truly unusual sound, great harmonies and phenomenal guitar work”- Andy Kershaw, BBC

"...their delicate harmonies work beautifully; The subtle musical backdrop working in perfect tandem with the breathtaking vocal interplay and well-written lyrics. I predict a great future for this Rita Payne" - Alan Cackett, Maverick Magazine

"Rita Payne have brought some sunshine to my life" - David Burns, BBC Introducing Humberside

Video Link     Band Website   Agency Website

 

Topic Records - New Linda Thompson Album

Won't Be Long Now

Topic Records is very proud to announce that the long-awaited new album from Linda Thompson will be released next week.

Won’t Be Long Now – Linda's first album in six years -  was recorded in the UK and America with a rich array of contributing musicians. While it’s undoubtedly a family affair, featuring a duet with former husband Richard Thompson, regular contributions from their children Teddy and Kami, and grandson Zak Hobbs, Won’t Be Long Now also reflects Linda’s folk beginnings. This new album includes appearances by many alumni of the British folk scene, including John Kirkpatrick, Dave Swarbrick, Martin and Eliza Carthy, as well as American musicians such as David Mansfield, Amy Helm, Sam Amidon, Jenni Muldaur and Tony Trischka, among others.

“It’s apparent how undimmed Thompson’s talent is, especially in the sheer confident power of her vocal performance. Long may she continue.” Record Collector

More Info at...  www.topicrecords.co.uk  

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The Full English

The Full English ensemble will be on tour shortly:
19 Oct  The Met  BURY
24 Oct  The Sage  GATESHEAD
25 Oct  The Atkinson  SOUTHPORT
26 Oct  Darwin Suite  DERBY
27 Oct  Colston Hall  BRISTOL
28 Oct  Arts Centre COLCHESTER
29 Oct  Firth Hall  SHEFFIELD
30 Oct  The Stables  MILTON KEYNES
31 Oct  Cecil Sharp House  LONDON
01 Nov  The Mac  BIRMINGHAM
02 Nov  The Drill Hall  LINCOLN

“Seasoned celebrations, tragedies, comic interludes
and oodles of warmth ensue.” The Daily Mirror.

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LAL WATERSON
teach me to be a summer's morning

Fledg'ling Books in association with Topic Records are to publish this beautiful 72 page hardback book with 15 track CD on Monday 21st October.

Lal Waterson is known primarily as a singer and songwriter, a member of the wonderful Watersons. teach me to be a summer’s morning shows the full range of her creativity. This limited edition hardback book publishes, for the first time, a selection of her drawings, paintings, lyrics, thoughts and poems to present a portrait of her extraordinary intense, tender and complex but ultimately very human artistic talents. The CD, included inside the book, collects together 15 songs drawn from her home recordings and serves to confirm her stature as a songwriter of rare imagination, depth and rich beauty.

More Info at...  www.topicrecords.co.uk

Howden Jones @ Lincoln Drill Hall

Thursday 17 October 8pm @ Lincoln Drill Hall in the Room Upstairs

Howden Jones

Join singer/songwriters Kate Howden and Paul Jones for an evening of songs and stories. There will be songs to sing along to  and plenty of laughter too as Kate and Paul share their travelling experiences through their music and northern-tinged banter. They write all their own material, all beautifully arranged and packed with powerful harmonies and  between them play guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo and bodhran.

Tickets: £8 from 01522 873894

Lincoln Drill Hall, Freeschool Lane, Lincoln. LN2 1EW

www.lincolndrillhall.com

'Ale'Oween Mimi Beer Fest @ The Joiners Arms Lincoln

 

Check out the 'Ale'Oween Mimi Beer Fest @ The Joiners Arms Lincoln

 

On the afternoon of 2nd November the Coffee Bar Cowboys will be playing in the Bar between 3 and 5pm and then between 6.30 and 10pm Roger Williams and Keith Luckey will be Jammin' the night away!

Busy Month Ahead For Topic Records.

Busy month ahead new releases from Topic October is scheduled to be very busy in the Topic office. We have several exciting new projects due for release. The splendid FULL ENGLISH album is released on Monday 7th October and LINDA THOMPSON's eagerly-awaited Won't Be Long Now on Monday 14th October. Our colleagues at Fledg'ling Records have just released a previously unheard live recording from 1968 by The YOUNG TRADITION and are to publish a hardback Book with CD of the late LAL WATERSON's lyrics, drawings and paintings on 21st October. All four projects have kept us very busy in recent months. You may have already spotted some of the many reviews and media mentions. The Full English is a groundbreaking project sponsored by the English Folk Dance and Song Society that draws together for the first time the early twentieth century folksong collections of Harry Albino, Lucy Broadwood, Clive Carey, Percy Grainger, Maud Karpeles, Frank Kidson, Thomas Fairman Ordish, Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Alfred Williams. The result is the most comprehensive searchable database of British folk songs, tunes, dances and customs in the world. To mark the launch of the project, folksong scholar and acclaimed singer Fay Hield has assembled The Full English band - inviting half a dozen of the top talents on the English folk music circuit to collaborate on songs drawn from these unique collections. The result is a tremendous album of material drawn from these historic collections. Rapidly becoming identified as a folk supergroup The Full English includes singer and fiddle player Seth Lakeman, who has successfully steered English folk into the musical mainstream with his high-energy performances and a series of best-selling albums. One of the world’s finest and most admired guitarists, Martin Simpson. Nancy Kerr, another fiddler/singer with a deep commitment to the English traditional repertoire, celebrated for her partnerships with Eliza Carthy and James Fagan. Sam Sweeney on fiddle and Rob Harbron on concertina, formidable instrumentalists who feature in Fay’s backing band The Hurricane Party as well as in Jon Boden’s Remnant Kings, and are two of the most in-demand session musicians on the scene. Nailing all this multi-instrumentality down is Ben Nicholls, double bassist of choice for artists as diverse as the Seth Lakeman Band, Martin Carthy and Jimmy Somerville. The FULL ENGLISH CD is available to buy at the special price of at £9.00 until 1st November Last weekend, BBC4 broadcast Michael Proudfoot's splendid and moving documentary The Enigma of Nic Jones - the return of Britain's lost folk hero. Nic Jones is a legend of British folk music. His 1980 record Penguin Eggs is widely regarded as a classic - in a poll by the Observer a few years ago, Penguin Eggs was rated number 79 of the 100 Best Records of All Time, just above Station to Station by David Bowie and just below Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones - amazing for an LP that never actually charted. The programme is currently available to watch on the iPlayer Linda Thompson's first album in six years has been receiving some incredible press - "Folk-rock grande dame, still damned grand" in the view of Uncut. We'll have full details of Won't Be Long Now and the Lal Waterson book teach me to be a summer's morning in a newsletter soon. Fledg'ling Records have just released a previously unheard live recording of the mighty YOUNG TRADITION – Oberlin 1968 – FLED 3094 "Copious thanks to Fledg’ling for bringing us what is definitely the historical release of the year, no question." Living Tradition The live reputation of the mighty Young Tradition lives long in the memories of all who heard them during their brief career. Live recordings were thought not to exist until, 45 years later, an American fan remembered the reel-to-reel recording he’d made at Oberlin College on 17 November 1968. Carefully restored, these tapes are finally available for all to hear on CD and DL. Recently we added a few more designs to our range of Topic T-shirts. Full details can be found at: www.topicrecords.co.uk/category/t-shirts/ We have a handful of copies of the limited edition DAVY GRAHAM & ALEXIS KORNER 3/4 AD vinyl Record Store Day 2013 anniversary EP left to purchase from the Topic online shop. "Finger-style guitar maestro's signature tune, reissued on a 50th anniversary EP for Record Store Day 2013". MOJO