Queer As Folk in many ways is an album twelve years in the making. After more than a decade of touring and building a craft and a fanbase, I am in a position finally to take some of the best songs I have to offer and give them the best arrangements possible, with a host of incredible guest musicians I have been lucky enough to make friends with along the road. This album was made by and for an amazingly supportive audience that I have picked up over more than a decade of relentless touring, who generated £18,000 in a week to create it. It is a collection of songs that celebrates both sides of the artist that I am: passionate about and deeply inspired by the magnificent tradition of folk music, but seeking and striving for it to become again the vehicle for radical politics that it once was. Mixing the personal with the political, these songs mean to offer a hand on the shoulder of those whose struggles in this world chime with my own, whether that be with identity, with love or with the faith to fight for a better tomorrow. This album is both a celebration of and a step beyond protest singer, an offering of the most urgent and honest songwriting I have ever put into the world. Recorded with a band that includes some of the UK's top folk players including Miranda Sykes, Nancy Kerr and Hannah James, produced by Maybeshewill's Matthew Daly and mixed by Neil Ferguson of Chumbawamba/No Masters Records fame, Queer As Folk is something I am deeply proud of and very close to my heart.

12. Black Tie (Clean Mix)

11. Northbound

10. Iago

09. Farewell To Welfare

08. Beeswing

07. Departures

06. Black Tie

05. Pride

04. Baby Blue

03. This House

02. Tom Paine's Bones

01. A Young Woman's Tale

Folk singer-songwriter Grace Petrie delivers tales of love, life and protest and has won over folk, comedy and alternative audiences on both sides of the Atlantic

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