‘Butterfly’, track 2 from the forthcoming ‘Double Rainbow’ album, has been released as a single and is available to stream and download via the following links
Download: https://ianroland.bandcamp.com/track/butterfly
Stream: https://open.spotify.com/track/4OYBXmGOitvi9XIEA0wMnK
There is an accompanying YouTube video here https://youtu.be/ywg_pCTR3nE and an Americana UK premiere here https://americana-uk.com/video-premiere-ian-roland-the-subtown-set-butterfly
** ALBUM LAUNCH ** Sat 29th Feb 2020 – (1pm) – Union Music Store – In-Store – Lewes. A live In-Store session for the launch of the new album, ‘Double Rainbow’, at Union Music Store, 1 Lansdown Place, Lewes BN7 2JT www.unionmusicstore.com
‘In The Darkness’ will be included in the play list of Colin MacDonald’s radio show, Folkal Point, on 2nd JANUARY 2020 https://folkalpoint.scot/
FOLKAL POINT is broadcast simultaneously (Thursdays, 10pm – midnight) across the Cowal Peninsula via Dunoon Community Radio – 97.4 FM and online*, by MKB Independent Radio online from Scotland to the world, across Renfrewshire by Paisley FM 107.5, (with DAB+ to greater Glasgow), by 60 North Radio from Shetland, 242 Radio online “from Edinburgh to the world” and Two Lochs Radio (Wester Ross) on 106 and 106.6 FM and online. Folkal Point timeshifts on Crystal FM 107.4 from Penicuik, serving south-west Midlothian (Thursdays,11 pm -1 am) with a 10am – midday Friday repeat, then Saturdays (10pm-midnight) on HBS in Glasgow and Paisley. The programme is also re-transmitted (globally!) online three times a week on its Essential Channel by Blues and Roots Radio from Canada. 242 Radio from Edinburgh airs a Friday repeat from midday, there’s also a Friday airing online from 2pm on MKB Independent Radio, while 60 North Radio from Shetland offers a Saturday repeat between 9-11pm and listeners across Cowal have a second chance to catch the programme on DCR between 10pm and midnight on Sundays.
Here’s the second video from the Narrowboat Sessions, which Simon and I did in July 2019, when we travelled up to Chirk Marina in Wales … It is an unplugged rendition of our song, ‘The Valley’, which appears on our new album, ‘Double Rainbow’, which will be released in February 2020.
Jade, Simon and Ian played a live session for Pete Jones’ show on Brighton’s Radio Reverb on Monday 18th Nov 2019. The session featured the new single ‘In The Darkness’ as well as three other tracks which are on the forthcoming debut album due out 28th February 2020 : ‘Butterfly’, ‘Songbirds’, ‘Double Rainbow’…
On Tuesday Simon, Ian and Jade travelled over to Alton, in Hampshire, to do a live radio session for Brian Player’s Acoustic Cafe Radio Show on Wey Valley Radio. Here’s the link to the show on Mixcloud
Due for release on Sat 2nd Nov 2019, In The Darkness is at Number 4 in the UK Independent Charts for week beginning 4th Nov 2019…
In The Darkness is the first single to be released from the forthcoming album and will be available online at the following digital stores from Saturday 2nd November 2019: Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Amazon Music, Pandora, YouTube Music, Google Play, Shazam, TIDAL, Deezer, Napster, Beatport, 7Digital.
Jade, Simon and I travelled over to Woking to play on Kieran’s Crossing The Tracks radio show for Radio Woking on Mon 21st October 2019…We played a few tracks from the new album, ‘Double Rainbow’, which is due for release 28th Feb 2020…
Listen again at https://www.mixcloud.com/radiowoking/crossing-the-tracks-with-kieran-cooke-211019-with-guests-ian-roland-and-the-subtown-set
