markdishman – Folk Witness

August 7, 2018 / markdishman / Live reviews

Stick in the Wheel: Ham Marquee, Sidmouth, August 6 2018

Stick in the Wheel singer Nicola Keary’s on-stage chat is the deadest deadpan you’ve ever…

June 26, 2018 / markdishman / Interviews

Completists will be relieved. Devonian singer Jim Causley has collected a series of seven songs…

May 1, 2018 / markdishman / Film reviews

Tim Plester and Rob Curry’s Way of the Morris (2010) is a fascinating, beautifully made…

April 26, 2018 / markdishman / Live reviews

Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar’s opening tune set, Warwick Road, showcases a rare instrumental chemistry.…

February 17, 2018 / markdishman / Album reviews

Although ‘psych-folk’ contains the magical four-letter f-word, the late 1960s and early 1970s period of…

February 6, 2018 / markdishman / Interviews

Have you seen the video for Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker’s new song, Chicago? It’s…

December 31, 2017 / markdishman / Album reviews

The first thing we hear is air filling the lungs of Ian Lynch’s uilleann pipes,…

December 11, 2017 / markdishman / Live reviews

December feels an appropriate time for Eliza Carthy to take the massed ranks of the…

November 13, 2017 / markdishman / Film reviews

Four years in the making, Tim Plester and Rob Curry’s documentary about Shirley Collins is…

September 27, 2017 / markdishman / Album reviews

Established enough to surely be sick of those ‘do you regret calling yourselves that?’ questions…