There’s something stirring in Folk World. Away from the grey hairs and the comfy jumpers, away from the beautifully played fiddles, and the endless Child ballads, something is going on. Whether it’s the weird electronic scratches and scritches of Stick in the Wheel (amazing at Rough Trade last week), the stripped back savagery of LankumContinue reading “The Mary Wallopers – Thekla – December 2022”
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Skinny Lister – Thekla – December 2022
How do you get rid of the winter blues? Or, perhaps, on another evening of World Cup disappointment, the winter Les Bleus? The answer’s easy. You go to the Thekla, jump about like a lunatic, sing at the top of your voice and fall into the drunken, loving embrace of the world’s finest shanty punkers,Continue reading “Skinny Lister – Thekla – December 2022”
Valerie June – Thekla – August 2022
This one was for the dreamers and the thinkers, the singers and the shouters, the lovers and the abandoned. Two astonishing singers making something beautiful on a warm and sticky Bristolian evening. Susan O’Neill is from Ireland and is all things husky and heartfelt. With just a guitar, one of those nifty loop machines andContinue reading “Valerie June – Thekla – August 2022”
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