WASSAIL! WASSAIL! ALL OVER THE TOWN @TopicRecords Christmas Newsletter

The latest news and special offers from Topic Records. WASSAIL! WASSAIL! ALL OVER THE TOWN December is upon us and, as Bob Copper sings in The Trees Are All Bare: ‘Now Christmas is come and our song is almost done For we soon shall have the turn of the year.’ In a year that has seen a fond farewell to The Full English, a welcome to a stunning album and tour by Simpson-Cutting-Kerr, celebrations of Bob Copper and Ewan MacColl on the 100th anniversary of their births, 80th birthday parties for Shirley Collins and tours from Martin Simpson, Martin Carthy and Eliza Carthy, it’s clear that folk music continues to resonate loudly in our modern world, and Topic is proud to contribute to its ongoing evolution. All of us at Topic wish everyone a peaceful Christmas in 2015. All customers placing mail orders which are received by Topic up to midnight on Friday 18th December will be entered into a randomly chosen draw to win one of only 5 signed CD copies of Martin Carthy’s last Topic studio album, ‘Waiting for Angels’. Christmas special offers We have some seasonal titles from Topic and our good friends Fledg’ling on offer at the special price of only £6 each during December:     TSCD562  WATERSON:CARTHY  Holy Heathens and the Old Green Man TSCD563  THE WATERSONS  Frost and Fire FLED 3006  THE YOUNG TRADITION  The Holly Bears The Crown FLED 3060  JOHN KIRKPATRICK  Carolling & Crumpets Four more fabulous albums are also on offer at this great price:     TSCD576D  EWAN MACCOLL  Ballads 2CD TSCD774D  VOICE + VISION songs of resistance, democracy + peace 2CD FLED 3094  THE YOUNG TRADITION  Oberlin 1968 FLED 3097  BOB & RON COPPER  Traditional Songs from Rottingdean   All customers placing mail orders which are received by Topic up to midnight on Friday 18th December will be entered into a randomly chosen draw to win one of only 5 signed CD copies of Martin Carthy’s last Topic studio album, ‘Waiting for Angels’. £3 bargains from the Topic catalogue If you need ideas for Christmas presents (or just a present for yourself), these wonderful Topic titles make great stocking fillers at only £3 each!: TSCD496  A.L. LLOYD  English Drinking Songs TSCD523  THE ALBION BAND  Road Movies TSCD528  OLIVER KNIGHT  Mysterious Day TSCD550  BRASS MONKEY  Flame of Fire TSCD565  TIM VAN EYKEN  Stiffs Lovers Holymen Thieves TSCD571  ELIZA CARTHY  Dreams of Breathing Underwater TSCD574  THE WATERSONS for pence and spicy ale TSCD579  ELIZA CARTHY & NORMA WATERSON  Gift TSCD582  PETER BELLAMY  Both Sides Then TSCD822  LINDA THOMPSON  Won’t Be Long Now We have very few copies remaining of the wonderful book with 7 CDs celebrating Topic’s 70th anniversary, Three Score and Ten; these will not be reprinted once they have gone, so get your copy now at the special price of only £25 during December.    Topic and Fledg’ling collaborated on a stunning review of the artistry of Lal Waterson in the limited edition book and accompanying CD teach me to be a summer’s morning. This month we are offering this superb assessment of a unique talent at only £15. Tour news Martin Carthy has a few pre-Christmas tour dates during December, starting on 5th December at Kings Place in London with support from The Devil’s Interval. Martin Carthy tour dates Eliza Carthy and the Wayward Band play at the Great British Folk Festival, Skegness on the weekend of 4th to 7th December. Eliza Carthy tour dates During December, Martin Simpson travels as far North as Barnard Castle in Co. Durham (5th Dec) and as far South as St. Helier in Jersey (19th Dec, his last gig this year). Martin Simpson tour dates

@bigcityindians Wolfsheart; A Christmas Lullaby.

Big City Indians           Hi All, Christmas is just around the corner. Kick off the Christmas Season with this video of the new single: „Christmas Lullaby“ lay back - relax - enjoy and rock your children off to sleep BCI-Music www.bigcityindians.com www.wolfsheart.eu     Featured Video       Music     May You Walk (Roussinoff Remix)     Earth Is Crying - Dry Her Tears     Horses Thunder       Press     "This music reminds us that we're all indigenous to the earth. Hear the thunder, hear the earth crying out, and feel the power of native wisdom through this diverse compilation of musical styles. TUWA weaves rich sound textures with deep earthy vocals. Native flutes, drums, and prayers meet the big city with a wide variety of instrumentation that awakens every heart to action and healing for the earth."    — Traci Hickson, Earthday Radio

Bury the Hatchet at Peterborough Town Hall 5th December

Bury the Hatchet at Peterborough Town Hall

Bury the Hatchet event on Saturday 5th December at The Town Hall Peterborough - a popular Peterborough dance venue resurrected for this 70's/80's reunion in aid of the Mayors Charities.

Tickets are now available from, Papa Luigi Pizza Shops and the City Council Information Office - Bridge Street Peterborough.

Original scene DJ's appearing from Steve Allen Discos/Easy Street Promotions - Barry Jay, Barrie Turner  (Mike Barrie), Malcolm James, Paul Skerritt (Paul Andrews), along with Steve Allen

Great music from a special era, and a superb chance to catch up with old friends.

The Lincoln, UK, MashUp is Back! #lincolnartsmashup

The Lincoln, UK, MashUp is Back…

The second Lincoln Arts MashUp will take place on Wednesday 2nd December from 5.30pm once again at the Brewhaus on the corner of Silver St and Broadgate, in Lincoln, UK.

The first one, back in October, was amazingly well attended by around 30 local creatives and was a surprising success judging by the positive comments that were flying around, for which many thanks! Not that anything amazing happened (though the pizzas were pretty amazing) but that was never the idea – it’s just a very informal social / networky thing open to anyone who works or is involved in the creative sector in and around Lincoln. A chance to get together with other creative types and chat/goss/discuss, whatever… and the more the merrier so please spread the word.

There’s free pizza again this time (thanks again to Visit Lincoln) and the bar is very much open.

And half way through we offer a slot called the MixTape when anyone can grab the floor for a couple of minutes to tell us about a project, an idea, an event or a workshop that ‘s coming up… or put out a call for artists to collaborate… or ask for some advice… or just have a good old rant (constructive of course).  A number of ideas were discussed and/or emerged last time and I am looking forward to seeing how some of these might have developed or changed completely….

To keep informed and up to date check out www.mrholly.co.uk and/or @mrholly68

Dog and Bone, Lincoln, Jam session this Sunday November 22nd.

It's the Dog and Bone, Lincoln, 
Jam session this Sunday 22 November 
3 pm start. 

Everyone welcome, any instrument, any genre welcome.

 Real Ale on tap too,                       

www.dogandbonelincoln.co.uk

 10 John Street

Lincoln LN2 5BH

01522 522403

King King; Hoodies and London

King King Hello! We have two things to say day today - Hoodies and London. Well three actually - get your Hoodies in London! These garments make splendid sartorial additions to any persons winter wardrobe. Quality black Gildan 'Heavy Blend' Unisex Hoodies logoed back and front and available now at gigs or from our website for only £30 in sizes S, M, L, XL, XXL. Our Headline London show is fast approaching tomorrow, at the Islington O2 Academy. A special night - this one is not to miss! Plus we have Ben Poole as support too! Its been great to meet so many of you, thanks so much for your support. And with Planet Rock playlisting 'Hurricane' it has made our month! See you soon!   King King PRESS "Alan Nimmo's guitar playing is dazzling, his full-bodied voice passionate.....rounding off the first night at Maryport Blues King King left in a new crown!" "  Fi Exon, The Cumberland Times "King King set the night on fire as they blazed into the finale with a superb set of one great song after another......A brilliant performance by the whole band."  Sue Hickling, Blues in Britain, Newark Blues Festival "...a performance that should, without doubt, put them firmly up with the best on the British circuit and probably the european circuit too"  Blues on the Farm Festival, Blues Matters UPCOMING SHOWS O2 Academy Islington London, UK Wed Nov 11 2015 07:00 PM Tickets Artrix *SOLD OUT* Bromsgrove, UK Thu Nov 12 2015 07:30 PM   Sale Waterside Arts Centre Sale, UK Fri Nov 13 2015 08:00 PM Tickets > See More / Details LINKS  Facebook       Facebook       Facebook       Artist Website

The Latest News and Special Offers From Topic Records.

You never heard so sweet Following on from our Voice of the People series offer earlier in the year, during November, we have four more volumes at a very special price – edited by Reg Hall and with selections and presentations made by Shirley Collins, Steve Roud and Rod Stradling, the four collections issued in 2012 continued the high standard set by the original 20-volume treasury of traditional songs and music.  This could be your perfect opportunity to catch up with records you are missing from your collection or purchase a gift for a friend. TSCD671   YOU NEVER HEARD SO SWEET TSCD672D   I’M A ROMANY RAI TSCD673T   GOOD PEOPLE, TAKE WARNING TSCD674  SARAH MAKEM ~ The Heart Is True   We have begun to make available free downloads of the transcribed notes for several of the songs from SimpsonŸ∙CuttingŸ∙Kerr’s ‘Murmurs’ album. Click on the following link to access the notes for the banjo transcription of The Lads of Alnwick  and the fingerstyle guitar transcription of The Plains of Waterloo: SCK Transcriptions More songs will be uploaded to this location in the next couple of weeks.   We continue our monthly choice of CDs at a very special price with 4 more great Fledg’ling titles:     FLED 3031  HELEN WATSON ~ Lifesize FLED 3085  HOME SERVICE ~ Live 1986 FLED 3091  The Complete JOHN KIRKPATRICK BAND FLED 3092  IAIN MATTHEWS  & EGBERT DERIX ~ In The Now Also on offer this month for only £10.00 is the limited 180g vinyl LP edition of the classic Bob & Ron Copper album originally released on the EFDSS label, ‘Traditional Songs from Rottingdean’.     * * * STOP PRESS * * * Warehouse find – a few copies available of Davy Graham’s classic EP ¾ AD, the Topic 2013 Record Store Day edition, new and sealed. These will not be repressed, so buy while you can at this price.   Only £7.50 November tour news   In early November Eliza and Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson will join Peggy Seeger and Neill and Calum MacColl, plus a wonderful line-up of musicians, for a few special concerts celebrating the songs of Ewan MacColl, marking 100 years since his birth. Find details of the ‘Blood and Roses’ concerts here: http://www.ewanmaccoll.co.uk/blood-and-roses-live-tour/   (photograph by Phil Carter) After a very successful tour with Dom Flemons, Martin Simpson starts a November/December solo tour on Thursday 12th November at the Hebden Bridge Trades Club. More tour dates here: http://www.martinsimpson.com/gigs/

Emily Portman - Seed Stitch; New Single, Video & Tour

EMILY PORTMAN - SEED STITCH; NEW SINGLE, VIDEO & TOUR

2 track digital single from Furrow Records. Cat. No.: FURR010. Release date: 13th Nov.
2015. Barcode: 5051565305388 Publisher: Wipe Out Music, Distribution: Cadiz.
"Entrancing and unsettling. A marvellous, original work"
✭✭✭✭ Observer
"Coracle is, without doubt, one of the folk albums of the year."
✭✭✭✭✭ Songlines
"Dark, dark is the considerable beauty of Emily Portman's
work”
✭✭✭✭✭ fROOTS.
"Spooky and surreal”
✭✭✭✭ Guardian
"A bold album"
✭✭✭✭ Telegraph 'Best Folk Albums of 2015’
"Coracle is a triumph...Delicate as a spider’s web, yet tough
as memory, this is a rich and remarkable record.”
✭✭✭✭✭ R2 Magazine

Seed Stitch is the new single from BBC Folk Award-winner Emily Portman, released
alongside a new video by a fellow Liverpool-based animator Laura Sparks, and coinciding
with a live tour from 6th-15th November.

Emily Portman’s latest album Coracle has received a multitude of rave reviews
since its release in June. It was recently named a 'Best Album of 2015' by the Telegraph
and put Emily on the cover of fROOTS magazine. Coracle has received plentiful airplay,
with accolades from the likes of BBC R3’s Late Junction and Jarvis Cocker on 6 Music.
Emily Portman will be joined by special guests to play a BBC live session for Mark Radcliffe’s
Folk Show on 4th November, which will coincide with the Seed Stitch video premier
by Folk Radio UK.
Seed Stitch showcases two stand-out songs from Coracle that subtly spin together
folk motifs with personal reflections on motherhood and bereavement. Emily describes the
title track as ‘a knitting pattern for DNA’; her beguiling voice rings out over a soundscape of
metronomic fiddles, with pulsing wurlitzer, electric guitar, glitch-laden electronics and percussion.
Haunting, yet silver-lined Seed Stitch shows Emily’s finely crafted songwriting at
its most poignant. The single also features ‘Nightjar’, a beautifully atmospheric song featuring
harp, brooding strings and drums, that lyrically captures the last moments of a loved
one’s life. Joining the acclaimed Emily Portman Trio on Seed Stitch are guests Sam
Sweeney on strings (Bellowhead), M G Boulter on guitars (Lucky Strikes) and Classical
percussionist Toby Kearney (BBC Young Musician of the Year 2006). Emily will be touring
live with this expanded line up as Emily Portman and the Coracle Band in 2016.
November Tour Dates

• 6th Foundling Museum LONDON
• 7th Sugar & Spice BOURNEMOUTH
• 8th Kitchen Garden Cafe BIRMINGHAM
• 9th The Greystones SHEFFIELD
• 10th Forest Arts Centre NEW MILTON
• 11th Howard Assembly Rooms LEEDS
• 12th Lincoln Drill Hall LINCOLN
• 13th Ashcroft Arts Centre FAREHAM
• 14th Arlington Arts Centre ARLINGTON
• 15th Philharmonic Hall LIVERPOOL
www.emilyportman.co.uk PR: james@jameshsoars.com Agent:sarahcoxson@btinternet.com (ABM)

Emily Portman - Biography
‘Casts a powerful spell’ Uncut
‘A mouth-watering collaboration’ Mojo
[on The Furrow Collective]
‘Eerily magnificent, bizarre and wonderful’ fRoots

Emily Portman is a folk singer, banjo-player and songwriter hailed as ‘one of the new
British folk scene’s most beguiling presences’ (Uncut). Emily is winner the BBC Radio Two
Folk Award for Best Original Song and now she’s back with Coracle, a vivid tour de force
of finely-crafted songs that spin together folk motifs with personal reflections on motherhood
and bereavement. Coracle has already caught the attention of Jarvis Cocker, received
rave reviews and propelled Emily onto the cover of fROOTS. The Emily Portman
Trio are joined by a stellar cast of guests to create a darkly magical album that takes Emily’s
fine-spun lyricism to new heights. Emily performs live with the Emily Portman Trio,
alongside the talented musicians Lucy Farrell (voice,viola and saw) and Rachel Newton
(voice, harp and fiddle) who have become known for their “inventive arrangements using
twinkling harp, brooding strings and chiming vocal parts” (Observer).

www.emilyportman.co.uk

The Emily Portman Trio are at Lincoln Drill Hall on 12th November

Tickets for Lincoln Drill Hall from 01522 873894 www.lincolndrillhall.com