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We had a fantastic time at Royston Folk Club last night. Thank you Chris Walls Cee Dub and Mark Gamon for inviting us to play a slot.

We had a great time yesterday (Sat 30th Jan 2016) doing a live radio session for Marlow FM’s ‘World Folk Show’, with host Paul Mansell. I was accompanied by Simon Yapp on fiddle and backing vocals and we played tracks from the ‘Helicopter’ EP and ‘How That Dust Jumps’ album.

We’ll also be doing a live radio session for Uckfield FM’s ‘Folk Is Not a Rude Word and Neither is Country’, hosted by Chris Giles, this coming Wed 3rd Feb 2016 from 9pm.

Here are some YouTube videos of our slot at Downend Folk Club, filmed by a member of the audience, on 15th January 2015, where we supported Tobias Ben Jacob & Lukas Drinkwater. Thank you for filming these, Brian.

How That Dust Jumps
Hate
Songbirds
Helicopter
Passing Through
Hope

Fantastic review in Rocking Magpie of the ‘How That Dust Jumps’ album…

Here’s a live radio session we did for Doug Welch’s ‘Kent Folk’ show on BBC Radio Kent on Sunday 10th Jan 2016…Interview starts around 21 mins in…

Ian Roland, Doug Welch, Simon Yapp at the BBC Radio Kent studios

‘How That Dust Jumps’ album featured in Armandaleg www.armandalegmusic.com

I will be doing a live radio session, accompanied by fiddle player Simon Yapp, for BBC Radio Kent on Sunday 10th Jan 2016. We will be playing songs from the ‘How That Dust Jumps’ album on Doug Welch’s ‘Kent Folk’ show at 9pm on 96.7 FM | 104.2 FM

‘How That Dust Jumps’ album is in Americana UK’s ‘Writers Best Of 2015’ …

“The great and the good of Americana UK have scratched their individual heads over the traditional pints of Tia Maria and Grenadine and have come up with this the absolute best of everything that has crossed our desk this year.” Americana UK, WRITERS BEST OF …. 2015, posted 24 Dec 2015 www.americana-uk.com/features/best-of/writers-best-of-2015

Absolutely thrilled to be be supporting TV Smith, founder member and singer-songwriter for 70’s Punk Rock band, The Adverts, at The Railway Roots Night, Railway Inn, Hove on Thurs 7th Jan 2016.

I played guitars, mandolin and provided some backing vocals on some of TV Smith’s solo albums in the 1990’s, namely ‘March of the Giants’, ‘In the Arms of My Enemy’, ‘Not a Bad Day’ and I am very honoured to be on the same bill as TV, whose songs embody the original spirit of punk rock. Also on the bill is political folk songster, Jon Mason.

This will be my first gig of the year and I’ll be teaming up with fiddle player, Simon Yapp, who played on my ‘How That Dust Jumps’ album.

I was joined by fiddle player and vocalist, Simon Yapp, at the Cambridge Folk Club gig on Friday 4th Dec 2015. We played songs from the ‘Helicopter’ EP and ‘How That Dust Jumps’ album and we had a fantastic time. Thank you to Marion, Les, Howard and all at Cambridge Folk Club for making us feel so welcome.