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Coming soon: a second wind for Folk Police Recordings to raise funds for wildlife, nature recovery and rewilding. Please join the mailing list at the link below. Defend nature! Posts by Nigel Spencer www.folkpolice.com https://linktr.ee/folkpolice

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · Feb 3

We’re donating all proceeds from future sales of the debut Woodbine and album to the Lancashire Wildlife Trust. More details below. Please pass it on!

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The Woodbine and Ivy Band x Lancashire Wildlife Trust

A new lease of life for an old release.

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 18h

I tried to buy a secondhand album from a US seller on Discogs recently - $6 for the album but a whopping $28 for shipping. And Discogs wanted to add $6.80 ‘VAT’ which means they’re taking VAT for the postage & packing which seems weird & wrong

Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 19h

Four Stiff Little Fingers tracks in the top 20…

Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 3d

Very nice it is too.

Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 4d

They are out there! I picked up my copy from my local secondhand record shop for a princely £8

Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 5d

Now playing: Robin and Barry Dransfield looking extremely cool on the sleeve of Lord of All I Behold from 1971.

Robin and Barry Dransfield - Lord of All I Behold LP

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 5d

Now playing: Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill - Triona (1975). Another gorgeous album from the 1970s Irish folk scene with a great line up of contributors. Turlough Og O’Boyle is an amazing track. Cheap vinyl copies can still be found.

Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 5d

Now Playing: Mick Hanly - As I Went Over Blackwater from 1980. A gorgeous album and a who’s who of the 70s Irish Folk scene: Donal Lunny, Andy Irvine, Matt Molloy, Noel Hill, Declan Sinnott and Paddy Glackin all play on it.

Mick Hanly - As I Went Over Blackwster LP

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 5d

Listening to Diamond Grove by Weirs on @dearliferecs.bsky.social - it’s a *really* good album. If you want your traditional music to sound like it’s channeling a site-specific environmental sound installation (and increasingly I do) this beauty is for you.
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Diamond Grove, by Weirs

8 track album

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 6d

lol!

Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 6d

I suspect the nepo-baby vibes didn’t help their cause much. That said, as a singles band at least, they were far more interesting than some of the Britpop dreck around at the time. Not convinced I could sit through an entire album, mind…

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 7d

Succumbed to a very strong urge to play the mighty Steel Pulse. Oh, and fuck Robert Jenrick.

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Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution - 01 - Handsworth Revolution

YouTube video by ReggaeRootsChannel

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 23d

Glad to hear it. I’ve grown quite fond of Noelie, Meabh, Black Gary & the gang!

Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 23d

No worries! I’ve now nearly finished A River of Bodies, which is equally good - hope it’s not too long until the third instalment. I’m going to get withdrawal symptoms :)

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 26d

Weirdly I once met Kevin years ago on a visit to Cork when we were both young anarchist whippersnappers. He was a very likeable feller.

Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 26d

Just finished To Keep a Bird from Singing by @caoimhindoyle.bsky.social - a really good, pacy, multilayered crime novel with great characters and bags of intrigue and skullduggery. I always knew anarchists would make the best crime writers! Recommended.

Cover image from the book by Kevin Doyle, To Keep a Bird from Singing

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 28d

Spotted in Margate

Blue plaque for Hawkwind’s Robert Calvert on the side of Arlington House in Margate

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 28d

Always a palate cleanser to remember Bobby Gillespie’s finest moment
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Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie refuses to dance

YouTube video by OldQueenTV

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · Sep 13

Can’t work out if that’s your mates or one of the bands 😁

Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · Sep 8

It would help if I could spell their name - Gévaudan!

Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · Sep 8

Will check them out - cheers!

Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · Sep 8

Imo more heavy bands need to bring out albums that are one sprawling 43 minute track. This progressive doom epic from Gevaudin is really good. Lots of room to grow and breathe; just the right level of bonkers grandiosity
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Umbra, by Gévaudan

1 track album

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · Sep 8

Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle is my answer to the current thing, if anyone is asking

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · Sep 8

Very disappointed this refers to weightlifting rather than mind altering sounds

A yellow van with “psych” written across the bodywork

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · Sep 4

The Guardian are rubbish on a number of issues - such as their continued tedious transphobia - but the environment was one area where they seemed to have their shit together.

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · Sep 4

Can @georgemonbiot.bsky.social or @jonathan-watts.bsky.social who are asking us to financially support @theguardian.com’s green journalism break journalistic omertà & comment on @theguardian.com’s editorial decision to publish finance editor @nilspratley.bsky.social’s pro-fossil fuel piece?

Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · Sep 4

So 10yrs after @arusbridger.bsky.social launched the #KeepItInTheGround campaign & 6yrs after @katharineviner.bsky.social's #climate pledge

The @theguardian.com finance editor @nilspratley.bsky.social is still writing apologetics for the fossil fuel industry!!!

Here's a short 🧵on how dumb this is!

Oil and gas imports are a problem. Labour should rethink its North Sea stance | Nils Pratley

Rachel Reeves could make geopolitical, economic and environmental case for limited boost in production

www.theguardian.com

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