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Our video for ‘Songbirds’ is being featured this weekend on Songdoor TV www.songdoor.com

Here’s an interview I did for The Garden Party Vintage Radio Podcast about our new album, ‘Double Rainbow’. It’s a behind the scenes look at the tracks and how they came about. I also talk about my time as a “go-for” at Park Gate Recording Studios and my 22 year musical collaboration with my dear friend, producer and arranger, Tim Cross (Mike Oldfield, The Adverts, TV Smith, Dana Gillespie, Doll-By-Doll, The Skids, Hall & Oates).

https://anchor.fm/ian-boyle-harmonica6/episodes/The-Garden-Party-Radio-Show—Behind-the-Album-Series–3—Ian-Roland-and-The-Subtown-Set—Double-Rainbow-efefmi

Americana UK’s exclusive premiere of the video for our song, ‘Songbirds’, is out today https://americana-uk.com/tag/ian-roland-the-subtown-set

‘Songbirds’ is on our new album, ‘Double Rainbow’, which we released on 28^th February 2020. The video was put together by our friend, Josh Lewis, of JR Lewis Films.

‘Double Rainbow’ will be played on Les Ray’s ‘Strummers & Dreamers’ show on Cambridge 105 Radio on Monday 27th April 2020 7-9pm https://cambridge105.co.uk/shows/strummers-and-dreamers @cambridge105

‘Double Rainbow’ was played on Adam Wilson’s Quiet Revolution radio show on 21 April 2020…We start off the second half of the show and you can listen again at https://www.mixcloud.com/thequietrevolutionary/adam-wilsons-quiet-revolution-21-april-2020/ @awquietrevhfm

‘Hope’, the third song we played for the Narrowboat Sessions last year, has just been published… Thank you, Skipper Mark Holdsworth, for inviting us on board.We had great fun. Special times. https://www.facebook.com/thenarrowboatsessions/videos/1584233661730029/ 

Mr. Foxx Frequency has shared our ‘Double Rainbow’ album track, ‘Songbirds’, on their YouTube & Spotify playlist, ‘Songs for Spring- Indie/Folk Playlist, 2020’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZa_5HNlMUA

I have recorded some live solo videos for Americana UK’s Mini-Gig series while in lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Thank you to my wife, Susie, for a steady hold of the iPhone : )
https://americana-uk.com/exclusive-auk-mini-gig-ian-roland-the-subtown-set

 ‘Double Rainbow’ was played last Sunday on Frank Hennessey’s Celtic Heartbeat show between 7pm-9pm on BBC Radio Wales … Frank says about the track “a cry for help from the Earth itself. A very topical song indeed from Ian Roland & The Subtown Set” … 24 mins in https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000gf7r

” ‘Double Rainbow’ is steeped in folk and warming orchestration. At times traditional roots and at others, it spreads it wings to a more pop friendly realm…this is an album of charm to replenish the soul with.” Travellers Tunes (17th March 2020)