This time around we’re taking five minutes to pose five questions to Leeds based songwriter Jay Leighton. Who is Jay Leighton? A singer songwriting troubadour from Leeds/Bradford. What have you been upto since recording ‘As The Sun Comes Up’? Gigging everywhere and anywhere from Shepherd’s Bush Empire to McHughs in Belfast. Why did you have [...]
Each week we take five minutes to pose five questions to one of our favourite Folksters. First up we have the wonderfully moustached Alex Highton who’s talking pledges, new albums and err… chess. Who is Alex Highton? I don’t know really. Maybe that’s what the songs are about, trying to work out who I am [...]
Farriers are Rachel, Stephen, Gerry, Kate and Gareth; five footstompers from Northern Ireland who play upbeat, rootsy folk that you can jig about with a pint of stout to while your grandma taps an approving toe by the fireplace. They’ve been writing and gigging relentlessly for the last three years and 2009 saw the release [...]
A few weeks back I was dressed like a late 70s punk and ventured down to the Ulster Hall in Belfast to play a small part as an extra in a bit crowd of music lovers re-enacting a gig from 1979 as part of the filming of Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn’s Good Vibrations. [...]