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Accompanying audio to the Anthony James "Lightfield" installation at Marble Arch.

36 Minutes

Versatile Portland singer-songwriter-guitarist Scott Law draws upon his numerous roots music influences and years of experience in the fiddle-driven sounds of new album "Black Mountain." Aoife O'Donovan, Nicki Bluhm, Darol Anger among the stellar cast.

Melinda's Reel

This episode looks at the ballad Maids When You’re Young Never Wed an Old Man aka An Old Man Came Courting Me aka Never Wed an Old Man aka The Foolish Old Man.

Tracklist

The Dubliners – Maids When You’re Young Never Wed an Old Man
The Clancy Brothers – An Old Man Came Courting
Pat McNamara – Never Wed an Old Man
Sam Larner - Maids When You’re Young Never Wed an Old Man
Danny Brazil – An Old Man Came Courting Me
Peggy Seeger – An Old Man Came Courting Me
Killy Country – An Old Man Came Courting Me
Ashley Hutchings – Black Joke
Jeanie Robertson – An Old Man Came Courting Me
Alex Beaton – Maids When You're Young
Alasdair Roberts and Mairi Morrison – Never Wed an Old Man
Alan Mills and Jean Carignan – The Foolish Old Man
Edna Ritchie – An Old Man Came Courting Me
Frank & James McCravy – Get Away, Old Man, Get Away
Joni Mitchell – Maids When You’re Young Never Wed an Old Man
Paul Gwynne Phillips – An Old Man Came A-Courting
Jon Kennedy – Never Wed an Old Man

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Maids When You're Young Never Wed An Old Man

This episode looks at the ballad the Suffolk Miracle aka the Holland Handkerchief aka the Lover's Ghost.

Tracklist

Nora Cleary – The Holland Handkerchief
Packie Manus Byrne – The Holland Handkerchief
Austin Flanagan – The Holland Handkerchief
Michael McGonigle – The Holland Handkerchief
John Goodluck – The Suffolk Miracle
Chris Foster – The Holland Handkerchief
Rósa Ingólfsdóttir – Djákninn á Myrká
John W. Green – The Suffolk Miracle
Mrs. G. A. Griffin – The Suffolk Miracle
Dol Small – The Suffolk Miracle
Peggy Seeger – The Suffolk Miracle
Dean Gitter – The Suffolk Miracle
Doctor Evazan – The Suffolk Miracle
Quadriga Consort – The Suffolk Miracle

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The Suffolk Miracle

A sample of the new Alan Kelly gang Album, The Last Bell (BBM 007) Stalwarts of contemporary trad, the Alan Kelly Gang are a creative force all about tasteful arrangements, groove, energy and musicality of the highest order. Their superb new album, The Last Bell which has been over a year in the making, is an uplifting, pristine collection of original and traditional music that inspires a feeling of joie de vivre throughout. Recorded over two live sessions in Rathcoole, Co. Dublin with an A-list cast of cohorts:
Alan Kelly, Steph Geremia, Alasdair White, Tony Byrne & Manus Lunny
with
Ewan Vernal, Martin O'Neill, Jim Higgins, Eddi Reader, Aidan Brennan, Ian Carr & John Douglas

Produced by Manus Lunny

The Last Bell Album Sampler

Fire Draw Near Episode LIV features wrens, bitterns and cailleachaí.

Roisin El Cherif - Siúil a Rúin
David Murphy – Sean O'Duibhir a Ghleanna
Dave Van Ronk – Luang Prabang
Wire Worms – The Cutty Wren
The Young Tradition – Byker Hill
Thin Lizzy – Sitamoia
Meaigí Nic Dhonncha – Cailleach an Airgid
Stiofán Ó Cualáin – Cailleach an Airgid
David Power – The Hag With The Money / Garrett Barry's
Bexley H.S. Vocal Ensemble – 'Si Do Mhaimeo I
Seán Jeaic Mac Donncha – An Bonnán Buí
The Huntress and Holder of Hands – Rocky Coast⧸EDT
Norman MacLean – Am Bothan a Bh'Aig Fionnghuala
The Bothy Band – Fionnghuala
Toké O'Drift – Bothy Bangz
Harry Gorski-Brown – Buain na Choirce

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FDN LIV

Fire Draw Near Episode LVI turns a focussed ear to the liminal weirdos at the very fringes of traditional and folk music. And Nioclás Tóibín. Pictured are the Belgian duo Tabernis, who open the episode. 

Tracklist

Tabernis – Carmen Reginarum
Róis – Caoine
Charanjit Singh – Raga Bhairav
Isa Gordon – What a Voice
Seamas Hyland – Navan Road
Nioclás Tóibín – Eochaill
The Deadlians – Return to Fingal / Lord Mayo
Dawn Ray'd – Requital
Córas – George White’s
Ancient Hostility – Immigration Van
Greet – John Barleycorn

FDN LVI

Chanson Mari-Louise - Laridé - extrait du premier album d'An Tri Dipop

Mari - Louise

FDN LX was recorded in a bedroom in the 9th Ward in New Orleans. Upon reflection it features many friends, peers and contemporaries and that must be a good thing.

Cormac Mac Diarmada – Iníon an Fhaoit’ ó’n nGleann
Jim Ghedi – The Seasons
Bob Hill – Pity The Downtrodden Landlord
Ben Edge – Crossbones Lament
Angeline Morrison – Unknown African Boy (d. 1830)
Paddy McKeown – Cailín Deas Crúite na mBó
Dickie Rock & Miami – Mairzy Doats And Dozy Doats
Guídó Pluisce – Farewell to High Fidelity
Geoff Berner — In Ale Gasn [Daloy Polizei! ⁄ A.C.A.B!]
Ola Belle Reed – I've Endured
Varo ft. John Francis Flynn – Green Grows the Laurel
Jim Ghedi – Sheaf & Feld
Danny Diamond – A Dream of Home
 
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FDN LX

Absurd samples, bouncy basslines and plenty of 303 riffs. This mix contains tracks by the late Tik Tok, Ant & DDR, Ray The Binman, Chris Liberator, Mark EG, The Geezer, Rov V, Benji 303, Lethal One, Dynamo City and Dave The Drummer...apologies if I have missed anyone. Artwork by Kim Diaz Holm. 

Acid Techno Mix #10

1. Nesbit – Brixton – Keep It Underground
2. LuchQ – Stylo Punk - Resilient
3. Groef – Lazem (Dave The Drummer Remix) – No Fear Left
4. Tassid & Eski – Septic – Always Acid
5. Dave The Drummer & DJ Parker – Back Seat Shenanigans - Hydraulix
6. Co-Ax – Warehouse Rocker - Cluster
7. Minus 25 – Saure – Always Acid
8.  ??? – Fire It Up - ???
9. Balrog – Phunk Block - Hydarulix
10. Syrus The Virus – Adverse Side Effect – Pounding Warehouse
11. Dave The Drummer – gIMME AN e – Chocis Chewns
12. Jamie Tik Tok Taylor & Dilks – Unlawful Rhythm (Chris Liberator & Sam DFL Remix) – P.I.M.P.
13. Ray The Binman – Off The Wagon

ODA - Brothers Grim Radio - May 2025

Here’s my set from a recent event. Probably my favorite so far! It’s full of tracks that really touched me. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!🔥



iLmush @Very Fairy Echo 2025

Tonal Verges On HardSoundRadio-HSR.

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Tonal Verges On HardSoundRadio-HSR

Episode LXI is a lengthy heady blast through all of the amazing music that has come my way over the last month. There's so much really quality interesting stuff coming out in the wider traditional - folk - weirdo music scenes these days and this is just a taster. The draft is full and rich. Drink deep and be let contentment be your wealth. Artwork by Louis le Brocquy for the Thomas Kinsella translation of the Táin Bó Cuailnge.

Tracklist

Cormac Begley & Liam O Connor – Ryan’s Rant
Sweet William – Keep your Garden Clean
David Murphy – The March of The King of Laois
Duck Baker and Molly Andrews – Bad Girl
Current 93 (feat. Shirley Collins) – Idumæa
Gout – Newcastle
Mother's Favourite Tongue - Oidhche na mo Chadal Dhomh
Bridget and Kitty - The Cruel Mother
Ottilie Paterson – The Bitterness of Death
The Standing Stones feat. Alasdair Roberts – Twa Brothers
Ultan O’Brien – The Boyne Hunt
Tom & Ben Paley – Follow The Band
Junior Brother – Welcome To My Mountain
Milkweed – Exile of the Sons of Uisliu
Milkweed – The Milk-Fed Calf
Poor Creature – We’ve Run Out Of Tomorrows

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FDN LXI

Wolf

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Sierra Hull | Black River - Weighted Mind

A recording of our set from this year's Electric Picnic festival on the Earthship Stage in the Body & Soul arena. One of our most enjoyable sets by far. Was a huge honour playing before Donal Dineen, a hero in the Irish electronic scene, and Neil Flynn, one of our favourite Irish DJs.

Enjoy.

Live @ Body&Soul - Electric Picnic15

Tad Sargent and Loic Blejean.  It's the last track on their debut album released February 2017

Loic Blejean and Tad Sargent

Reeling in Colman (Bouzouki)

6 November 2017. 
What the internet tells us about our musical lives and how we 'consume' music today; Toner Quinn from 'The Journal of Music' reveals the latest findings.
Find the full show at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09cz42w

BBC Music Matters extract: Toner Quinn on our musical lives on the internet

The Steeldrivers - If It Hadn't Been For Love

bridge of glllass

Full tracklisting available here:
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A jaw dropping ambient mix from the incredibly talented Kevin Richard Martin - The Bug - here to celebrate the release of Sirens on Lawrence English’s Room40 label. Tracks from pioneers such as Eliane Radigue, Einsturzende Neubauten and Alice Coltrane sit alongside modern architects such as Burial, Autechre, Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement and Nivhek. Later in this mix we also hear some exclusive unreleased material he has been working on as King Midas Sound.

Full Tracklist

Bleep Mix #68 - Kevin Richard Martin

Episode I looks at the folk motif that connects an Irish Traveller song, an obscure uilleann piping tune and a song by London Oi merchants Cock Sparrer.

Tracklist:

Willie Clancy – The Connaught Heifers / Corney is Coming
Jimmy Crowley – The Pool Song
Neillidh Boyle – The Moving Clouds talk and tune
Séamus Ennis – I’ll mend your pots and kettles O!
John Reilly Jr. – The Jolly Tinker
Cock Sparrer – I Fit Central Heating
Pat McNamara – I Left My Hand
The Castle of Dromore – Leo Rowsome
Bob Dawson - Don’t Take Me Drugs Away
Pat Usher – Wild Rover
Louth Mouths – Wild Rover
John and Paddy Killourhey – Sporting Paddy / Jimmy Mulqueaney’s 
Kayne – The Lucky Elopement
Tommy Reck – Top it Off
Tom Lenihan – Truth in Songs / The Christmas Letter
Nora Cleary – Maggie in the Wood


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Fire Draw Near Episode I

Fire Draw Near is a monthly podcast and radio show which investigates Irish traditional music and song in all of its myriad forms.

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