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Gig alert: Yuletide Yarns
For those of you who are into Christmas carols and songs, this is a gig you won’t want to miss.Set in the cosy surroundings of Liverpool’s longest running independent art gallery, the Domino, 11 Upper...
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Our Christmas carol appeared in the Liverpool Echo!
Our original Christmas carol, A Song for Mary, appeared in Friday’s Liverpool Echo as part of a feature by music writer Jade Wright on Christmas songs by Liverpool/Merseyside artists! To say we are...
View ArticleRonnie Wood plays with One Direction (contains mild humour anddeliberate...
There was horror in some musical circles as a guitarist from a boy band performed on stage with an all-male chamber choir at a televised talent competition on Saturday night. Guitarist Ronnie Wood is a...
View ArticleChristmas number one? Bah Humbug! by Ruth
There are various ways musicians can measure success. At the high sales end, it’s fairly easy to measure. Chart position, of course. Number one means most sales, and that’s certainly a well-known and...
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Are YOU mentioned in our review of the year?
We’ve all known bands who we know have been going for about ten years but when you look in their biographies, it says “we met last Thursday in hilarious circumstances and have already put out our first...
View ArticleWelcome to our website!
One of our New Year Resolutions was to create and maintain a more professional-looking website (and keep tumblr as a kind of scrapbook). Well, here we are. At any rate, here we start, as we'll be...
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We have finished recording... now for the rest of the to-do list!
Yesterday we went to Catalyst Studios, St. Helens, for our final recording session for our mini album, Amateur Astronomy.We started with our version of Schiarazula Marazula, a mediaeval dance which...
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In the mix: Amateur Astronomy
Yesterday, after a slightly fraught early morning (the gas meter had eaten through the last of the emergency credit thus necessitating a slightly disheveled trip to the Co-op before we could even have...
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Be Lovely Day, January 17th, The Brink
Our first gig of 2015 was at an event organised by the wonderful Jodie Schofield (who trades musically under the name SheBeat), to mark the third Be Lovely Day. This annual explosion of good deeds and...
View ArticleOur very own folk show THIS SUNDAY on Studio 109!
If you can, cast your minds back to December 2014, when our Christmas carol, A Song for Mary, was played on BBC Radio Merseyside and other local radio stations and podcasts, featured in the Liverpool...
View ArticleOur folk music special: now available as a podcast!
Last Sunday, we sat down at half past eight with the internet radio tuned to Studio 109 Live and Online, ready to hear our very own radio show, full of a diverse range of talent from mostly local (one...
View ArticleMarc on...my eight months without music
A year ago I stopped listening to music. This wasn’t a sudden thing; I didn’t decide one day to ‘kick’ music, like I’d kicked cigarettes, or Twixes or going on cookdandbombd during working hours. I...
View ArticleRuth, on: listening to music with the left ear.
Marc, in our last blog post, wrote about spending eight months without listening to much in the way of music, at least, new music.I've been lucky enough to have avoided this, but I've found something...
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It's here! Ella Brown, a folk-inspired song of love, loss, and learning (with...
We're really happy to announce that our studio-recorded single, Ella Brown, is now available to download!Ella Brown is an original song, written by Ruth and arranged, played and sung by both of us. It...
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Ruth on: releasing a single the weekend after a General Election
I'm going to try not to be too political here (I've already done all that on Facebook, and twitter) but I think most people who know me know I could hardly be described as "over the moon" about the...
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Ella Brown, our new three-track single
We were watching a documentary the other night about Brian Eno and he talked about the idea of releasing a song being akin to setting something free. Well, Ella Brown, our three-track single, has been...
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Kathryn Williams, Robert Vincent (and us) at Leaf, Liverpool, Wednesday 10th...
On Tuesday 9th June, all we had planned for Wednesday night was a quiet evening in. However, we ended up opening for Kathryn Williams (supported by Robert Vincent) at Leaf in Liverpool City Centre....
View ArticleTwo reviews
We have been lucky enough to have received two lovely reviews of our three-track single, Ella Brown. The first is from music reviewer and folk aficionado Helen Gregory. She says:It’s a rare and welcome...
View ArticleAmateur Astronomy: IT'S HERE!
We are absolutely delighted to be able to bring you our début CD, Amateur Astronomy. Our CD has been described by folk reviewer Helen Gregory as "the sound of the resilience of humanity, of all that is...
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Debrief: launch gig, Sunday 28th June, The Ethical Glass
There seem to be two types of launch gig; those that are all-singing, all-dancing, a cracking line-up, a huge venue... and no CDs due to a miscalculation of the production time. I've been to more than...
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