Thursday, 11 March 2010 
Music News
Features
Black Peak Interview: Part Two
Black Peak Interview: Part One
K.C. McKanzie Interview: Part Two
K.C. McKanzie Interview: Part One
Artist Guitar Blog #1: Mat Martin & Kirsty McGee - Part 2
Artist Guitar Blog #1: Mat Martin & Kirsty McGee - Part 1
Inge Thomson Interview - Part 2
Inge Thomson Interview - Part 1
The Toy Hearts Interview: Hannah Johnson
The Toy Hearts Interview: Sophia Johnson
SpiralEarth.co.uk News Headlines
Afro Celt Soundsystem to tour in 2010
Simon Emmerson is pretty busy with the Imagined Village these days but it seems that his other little project, the massively popular Afro Celts will be hitting the road again this year. Details are sketchy at the moment as an official announcement ha...more
11/03/2010
A debut album... after 25 years
Imagine a duo who have been going for 25 years, garnered a loyal following and... release their debut album in 2010 with the help of legendary folk-rockers, Fairport Convention....more
10/03/2010
Bearded Theory Festival to partner with Spiral Earth!
We are excited to have been appointed as official media partner to Bearded Theory 2010, the UK's fastest growing music festival, taking place 14-16 May in the heart of Derbyshire....more
10/03/2010
Introducing The Safires
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The Safires is a new venture from four established musicians who tend to work in rather different genres from each other but have spent the past two years fusing together their sound to present their debut album, Epic In The Ordinary....more
09/03/2010
Ruth Notman free download
As part of the Pete Seeger night on BBC Radio 2, The Mike Harding show featured some specially recorded Seeger covers by some great folk artists. Ruth Notman was delighted to record her take on the famous track 'Little Boxes'. You can download the tr...more
08/03/2010
Willkommen Collective with the Leisure Society & Sons of Noel and Adrian
A breath of fresh air coming to a town near you...more
07/03/2010
Pamela Wyn Shannon live dates
'English gothic meets New England: supreme quality timeless pastoral songcraft, singing and deftly intricate guitar playing' So say fROOTS mag. You can judge for yourself when Pamela plays one of their bi-monthly nights at Camden's intimate music ve...more
06/03/2010
Krista Detor album and live UK dates
American singwriter Krista Detor participated in the Darwin Song House project in 2009, we interviewed her there and were highly impressed by her performance and her attitude. She has a set of live UK performances lined up through March as part of he...more
06/03/2010
Levellers live dates
See below for the latest tour dates from Levellers. Once again they are asking fans to email them with the songs they would most like to hear played on the next tour....more
05/03/2010
Tangerine Dream 40th Anniversary “Zeitgeist Concert”
Unleash your inner hippy and join Tangerine Dream on an audio-visual trip to celebrate 40 years of psychedelic music making, at their Zeitgeist Concert on 1st April at The Royal Albert Hall....more
04/03/2010
Emily Portman album and tour
Emily Portmans new album 'The Glamoury' is released this week on Furrow Records, and very good it is too. Emily has an album launch in Newcastle next week....more
03/03/2010
Dreadzone live dates and new album
The original dub pioneers release their much anticipated new studio album EYE ON THE HORIZON in April. It reinvents the band with ten tracks that signify the move into fully formed songwriting against a backdrop of dubwise dancabilty. It is a huge re...more
02/03/2010
Gilmore Roberts tour dates
Recent BBC Radio 2 Horizon Award Nominees Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts are gearing up for their first nationwide headline tour in April promoting their current album ‘Shadows & Half Light’, recently nominated for ‘Best Debut Album’ in the Spira...more
01/03/2010
New Model Army – UK Tour March 2010
2010 sees the celebration of 30 years in the business for the five piece outfit who have never lost the ability to evolve, to thrill or to challenge both live and on record. With their inspirational back catalogue of songs, they remain central to the...more
28/02/2010
Blabbermouth
Steve Thompson – aka Blabbermouth is well worth checking out. In 2008 Hobgoblin Records released his debut album, “Blabbermouth - My Dancing Heart”, which received excellent reviews. The success of the album led to a series of festival appearances in...more
25/02/2010
Chumbawamba grasp the nettle
day four of their guest editorship and they tackle the eternal riddle; What is Folk? Their dissection of the current scene and its foibles is a masterful analysis of the gentrification of folk music, where are the factory songs amidst the rural idyll...more
25/02/2010
Catherine Howe - Single Launch Party featuring Circulus
1970's Folk legend and Ivor Novello winner Catherine Howe had somewhat of a comeback recently, largely due to the re-release of her 1971 cult album 'What a Beautiful Place', by uber-cool Chicago based label Numero in 2007. ...more
24/02/2010
Show of Hands on BBC Breakfast News!
Show of Hands were interviewed on BBC Breakfast News last week, where they talked about their new single Arrogance, Ignorance and Greed, which won 'Best Original Song' at the recent BBC Folk Awards....more
24/02/2010
Damien O’Kane announces tour dates
Damien will be doing some solo dates in March and April and will then be supporting his partner Kate Rusby on her Canadian and UK tour. Damiens new solo album 'Summer Hill' is due in early April. ...more
24/02/2010
ABCDEFG track by track from Chumbawamba
Day two of our Chumbawamba as guest editors dishes up a track by track description of their new album ABCDEFG. 'we’ve looked at music’s history, its stories, its heroes and its villains. A sweep through several hundred years of what music means to pe...more
23/02/2010
