Who???....Shide and Acorn?...What?....Common questions indeed,but in a nutshell, Shide and Acorn were a short-lived folk rock group from the...

We look back at 1980,and dream up images of the public walking around looking like Joy Division or The Birthday Party.The fact is that every...

  Not all Irish Folk is about pixie dancing,and playing the same tunes with different titles on a penny whistle. Here in France,if you play ...

By 1973 every urban street had a Progressive Folk Band with a lady singer of questionable ability singing about country life,while the bloke...

I'm still waiting for Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber to do a west end/broadway version of  one of the greatest movies ever made,namely, "T...

A few of my favourite movies by coincidence have folk inspired soundtracks.One being Ken Loach's film version of Barry Hines' "...

Zchivago sings holding back the tears,for the finishing touches of his version of "Candle In The Wind" in memory of Sandy Denny .....

Yep, it's 43 years today since Sandy Denny's life support systems were turned off, following a brain hemorrhage probably incurred af...

Archie Fisher was not the only MBE on the folk circuit incredibly. For sooth ,Martin Carthy MBE has been a reality for more than a decade.T...

What does 'Sister Ray' mean to you?.....No not The Velvet Underground, obviously the late Sister Ray Fisher ,sibling to the more suc...

Staying on the theme of androgynous female first names, after Frankie , and Lindsay ,but not staying on the same musical theme, we've g...

In an age where the television screen is no longer small, but the size of medium sized cinema screen,we are treated to a bunch of channel 4 ...

Well when I said that at least there were no feminist lyrics berating men for being men and not women, on The Feminist Improvising Group ta...

Everybody loves a feminist don't they? So the challenge is how to alienate as many potential supporters of the cause as possible. This i...

"No no no! Heavens to murgatroyd Frankie, the water' s down there,that's the sky you're looking at!? Sheech! They're no...

Phwooooaaaar, Fnar Fnar, Kyuk Kyuk,,Titter Titter, them rude Folk Singers Folks eh? If you've ever wanted a semi-boner caused by a 17th ...

Nooooooo, this isn't an album by Current 93,Coil, or any of the other ,so-called privately educated Industrial folkers .This was made by...

A fine East Midlands lass,with flowing dark hair and an intense stare.....just like your scribe;-).Anne Briggs was only sixteen when she sta...

Just as Space Aliens are reluctant to make themselves visible to humankind to avoid starting a new religion,and Just as Eggs Over Easy lit ...

These are the "Studio Outtakes ,Home Demos ,and Unheard Songs" section of that massive 19CD box set of everything Sandy recorded e...