Strange Brew

20/07/2025

Here's the all-important list for 20th July - please support all the artists featured.
Jez Lowe & the Bad Pennies A Call for the North Country
Alex Seel Music Prayer to the Ancestors
Sam Carter Ruins by the shore
Nic Jones The Flandyke Shore
Jackie Oates Hyperboreans
Jim Moray Sounds Of Earth
The Urban Folk Quartet Solsbury Hill
The Velvet Underground/Nico I'll Be Your Mirror
Karine Polwart & Kris Drever Northern Sky
Luke Jackson Rainbow Valley
Richard Thompson - RT End of the Rainbow
Glocal Orchestra Ukraine’s Glory Hasn’t Perished [Sung]
Duncan Chisholm Canan Nan Gaidheal
Karan Casey The Fiddle and the Drum
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Wait Until Tomorrow
Karan Casey When the Moon Gets Tangled
Krystle Warren ; Teddy Thompson Pink Moon [Live]
Kaia Kater Fédon (feat. Taj Mahal)
Eamonn Coyne/Kris Drever/Megan Henderson Parcel of Rogues
Paul Revere & The Raiders I'm Not Your Stepping Stone
Joan Armatrading All The Way From America
Breabach Western skies
Cream Tales of Brave Ulysses [Live]
Nic Jones Planxty Davis

20/07/2025

Consider this your weekly nudge towards “Strange Brew” – 18.00 – 20.00 BST – on www.td1radio.scot.
There’s some musical archaeology, thanks to Alex Seel Music Sam Carter and Nic Jones. There’s a semi-philosophical discussion of the meaning of compass directions, with acknowledgement to Jez Lowe, Jackie Oates , Karine Polwart and Kris Drever . There’s also some celestial considerations at the hands of Karan Casey , Richard Thompson - RT and Teddy, his son. All this and, as always some more.
What is he on about? Tune in and find out.

18/07/2025

Here's where you can listen to the Brew, 17th July, at your leisure:

Roads and seals and so much more: another peregrination round the dusty shelves, alcoves, nooks and crannies of the Old Curiosity Shop of Tunes.

17/07/2025

Here's the Brewlist, Folk Friday Radio, 17 July:
Sam Lee , The Garden Of England (Seeds Of Love)
Bella Hardy ; Eliza Carthy ; Kate Young ; Lucy Farrell, Sally Free & Easy
Bunch, My Girl in the Month of May
Steeleye Span , The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry
Allison Lupton, One More Day
Sam Lee, Spencer The Rover
Ruth Hazleton , The Returning (Selkie)
Ewan McLennan, Pad the road wi me
Éamonn Coyne & Kris Drever, Moving on Song
Louise Fuller, Hopping Down in Kent
Spell Songs, from The Lost Words And Julie Fowlis , Selkie-boy
Michelle Laverick Music , Selkie Child
Joni Mitchell, Song to a Seagull
Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage, Selkie Song
Kris Drever , Harvest Gypsies
John Doyle , Selkie
Landless, The Fisherman's Wife
Gabriel Moreno -Music and Poetry- , Castles
Kim Carnie , Òran na Bèiste Maoile
Karine Polwart , Cover Your Eyes
Sandy Denny/The Strawbs, Stay Awhile With Me
Nick Harper, All of this happened 50 years ago
Nick Harper , Who Knows Where The Time Goes
Davy Graham, Mustapha

17/07/2025

This evening’s “Strange Brew” (17 July) may involve a surfeit, if not of lampreys, then certainly of marine mammals. There will certainly be a tuna two so, as always, you can look forward to having a whale of a time and, yes, it’s all on porpoise and it’s in the same plaice as usual. Why not mussel in on the action?
Enough!
New music and old, genre-fluid and covered in the dust of the Old Curiosity Shop of Music – 21.00-23.00 –

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13/07/2025

Here's the Brewlist, 13th July:
Love You Set the Scene
Ewan McLennan Jamie Foyers
Dick Gaughan No Gods and Precious Few Heroes
Mouth Music Milleadh Nam Braithrean
Julie Fowlis Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh A riogain Uasail
The Chieftains;Sting Mo Ghile Mear ("Our Hero")
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh The Leaving of Limerick
Dick Gaughan Gillie Mor
Blue Rose Code From Wester Ross to Nova Scotia
The Monkees Daydream Believer
The Monkees Me & Magdalena
Glocal Orchestra Ukrainian National Anthem [Sung]
Michael Nesmith Rio
Trampled Under Foot Mary
Howlin' Wolf Smokestack Lightnin'
Nick Harper Crazyboy
Nick Harper Blues Run The Game
Roy Harper Another Day
Karan Casey Another Day
Allison Lupton One More Day
Thea Gilmore The Old Laughing Lady
Blue Rose Code Sallyann (2017)
Thea Gilmore Ride On
Love The Castle

13/07/2025

Now then! – what a particularly stupid expression that is – did you think I’d forgotten?
I may be late on parade this morning but be assured there is a “Strange Brew” as usual this evening, 13th July, 18.00 – 20.00, www.td1radio.scot – just a couple of 2025 tracks, but both absolute crackers from Allison Lupton and the one-and-only (another stupid phrase) Nick Harper.
But, of course, there is so much else to which to look forward while avoiding clumsy prepositions at the end of a sentence.
Must be good; we look forward to your company, too.

11/07/2025

Here's the Mixcloud link to the latest Brew (Folk Friday Radio, 10th July):

A very particular wander round the alcoves, shelves and wharves of the Old Curiosity Shop of Tunes.

10/07/2025

Here's the all-important Brewlist, 10th July.

Odette Michell All The Bonny Ships

Findlay Napier Building Ships

Linda Thompson, Three Shaky Ships (feat. The Unthanks )

Bird In The Belly, The Ships

Sam Carter , Ships In The Night

Isle 'Ave a Shanty , Good Ship Bess

Hirondelle , I Drew My Ship

Capercaillie , I Will Set My Ship in Order

Michael Walsh , Ships in Full Sail/Killavil Jig/Michael Dwyer's

Jefferson Airplane, Wooden Ships

Wildwood Jack, Liberty Ship

Jon Wilks Lofty Tall Ship

Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Naufragée du Tendre (Shipwrecked)

Jackie Oates , The Ship In Distress

Siobhan Wilson , Unst Boat Song

Dan ArBraz, Le Sang des Navires (The Blood of the Boat)

John Renbourn, Ship of Fools

Thom Ashworth , A Ship To Old England Came

Kris Drever , Shipwrecked

Mouth Music, Seafaring Man

John Doyle ; Karan Casey , The Shipyard Slips

Mandy Morton & Spriguns, White Ship

Bob Dylan, When the Ship Comes In

10/07/2025

It is, of course, Brewday again – 21.00 – 23.00 – www.folkfridayradio.com.
If you are prone to motion sickness, you may be advised to have your normal medication or wristband available for this evening’s “trawl” through the shelves, alcoves, not to say warehouses of the Old Curiosity Shop of Tunes. I’m saying no more but it will be quite obvious and, I hope, most enjoyable. Your company is earnestly sought.

08/07/2025

Thanks for your patience: here's the Mixcloud link for last week's FFR version:

Another peroration among the shelves and dusty alcoves of the Old Curiosity Shop of Tunes: who knows what shall emerge - predictably unpredictable.

06/07/2025

Here’s the Brewlist, 6 July:
Spooky Tooth Sunshine Help Me
Siiga It's Only Love
Dòchas Waulking Song
Julie Fowlis Oran an roin (Seal song)
Spell Songs, from The Lost Words : Papa Kéba
Kim Carnie Òran na Bèiste Maoile
Lavinia BlackwAll My Hopes Are All Mine
Sarah McQuaid Leave It For Another Day (Live In Rapid City)
Neil Young Unknown Legend
Taste I'll Remember
Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert Cockcrow (feat. Siobhan Wilson )
Linda Thompson I Live Not Where I Love
Glocal Orchestra Ukrainian National Anthem (Ukraine’s Glory Hasn’t Perished) [Sung]
The Gloaming The Sailor's Bonnet
Chris Wood Hollow Point
Family Hung Up Down
Seán Tyrrell She moves through the fair
Bill Caddick John O'Dreams
Archie Fisher Bonnie Border Lass
Alan Stivell An Nighean Dubh (La Fille aux Cheveux Noirs)
Dremmwel Macpherson's Rant
Bonny Light Horseman Magpie's Nest
Ryan Young The Bird's Nest - 's Iomadh Rud A' Chunnaic Mi
Mott the Hoople Thunderbuck Ram