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“Harmonious, creative and seductive, Double Rainbow is the aural signal of transformation we have been dying to hear.” – Liverpool Sound & Vision https://www.liverpoolsoundandvision.co.uk/2020/02/23/ian-roland-the-subtown-set-double-rainbow-album-review/

Thank you, Rocking Magpie, for this review of the ‘Double Rainbow’ album – release date Fri 28th Feb 2020 … “ Charming and Heavenly Contemporary British Folk.” The Rocking Magpie
 https://rockingmagpie.wordpress.com/2020/02/24/ian-roland-and- the-subtown-set-double-rainbow/…

KENT FOLK – VIDEO OF THE WEEK 132
IAN ROLAND & THE SUBTOWN SET – BUTTERFLY

‘Butterfly’ has been selected as this week’s BBC Radio Kent’s video of the week : D

I jumped on a floor spot to play a couple of songs before Boo Hewerdine’s fantastic show at Railway Roots on Thursday 6th Feb. Such a brilliant night, with Robb Johnson, Mike Reinstein, Roger Stevens, Andy Melrose doing spots as well as others…

Railway Roots is a great club run by singer-songwriter, Robb Johnson. It happens on the first Thursday of every month, from 8pm to 11pm at The Railway Inn, Boundary Road, Portslade www.railwayroots.co.uk

We are thrilled that Mr. Foxx Frequency has added ‘Butterfly’ to their ‘Passionate Heart – Indie/Folk Playlist’ on YouTube https://youtu.be/7aGyB408xbk and Spotify

‘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’…