The 2018 Folk Awards Nominations

Mark Radcliffe just announced the 2018 Radio 2 Folk Award noms, ahead of a ceremony in Belfast in April. It is by far the dominant awards show of the UK folk world and can feel like a lot of influence (over a small-ish industry) held by a compact group of people. As such…

BBC Culture’s ‘100 Stories That Shaped The World’ Survey

Here’s a fascinating, odd listicle from BBC Culture of ‘100 stories that shaped the world. Chosen by writers, it focuses solely on fiction and poetry — and the most recent inclusion (the only 21st century entry) is J.K. Rowling’s…

Review Of 2017

Here are my favourites of the year.

If you fancy music while you read, I made a Best Of 2017 Spotify playlist including tracks from my favourite albums and songs (as long as they’re on Spotify, so sadly no Ben Marwood ‘Safe Mode’ or Jay-Z. ffs).

Final T-T gig setlist

We closed the book on Chris T-T at London’s beautiful Lexington on Sun 3rd December 2017. I did two sets, totalling 32 songs:

SET #1 (mostly solo) Open Books Lines & Squares Love Me, I’m A Liberal Market Square You Can Be Flirty Ownership (with Tim Victor & Andy…