February 28, SFTHS Featured in The Hackney Gazette

A nice article was written on  the ‘Folk Olympics’ London Songs in this week’s Hackney Gazette. Thanks to Emma there for the support. You can view the article here

January 31, Folk Olympics Part 2

And down goes the second instalment of my series ‘Folk Olympics’
hosted at Londonist.com, which centred on the Olympic Borough of Greenwich.

Ep9: Joseph Druce: Mudlark and Maori Chief
Ep10: Anne Boleyn: Marriage and May Madness
Ep11: General James Wolfe: Battles, Brothels and Broken Hearts
Ep12: Martial Bourdin, The Exploding Anarchist Of Greenwich

They can all be seen and heard here: Folk Olympics

 

Dec 31, BBC New Years Eve Show

The world finally saw sense at the close of 2011 and I was broadcast to the nations
courtesy of the BBC World Service. Invited as a guest on the ‘World Have Your Say’
New Years Eve Special from the top of Bush House in the centre of London, I
performed a couple of songs and enjoyed the fireworks from one of the best seats
in the house. Thanks to John the Cabby for the pic.

 

Dec 15, Folk Olympics Part 1

As December draws to a close so does the first instalment of my new series Folk Olympics
hosted at Londonist.com, which centred on the Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Ep1: Charlie Brown, The ‘Uncrowned King’ Of Limehouse
Ep2: Angela Burdett-Coutts, The Queen Of the East End Poor
Ep3: Jamrach’s Menagerie, Rhinos & the Ratcliffe Highway
Ep4: Morris ‘Two-guns’ Cohen, Whingers & Chinese Food
Ep5: Emmanuel Swedenborg, Veruca Socks and Heavenly Secrets
Ep6: John Newton, Goebbels, Star Trek & The Slave Trade
Ep7: Eliza Marchpane, Mozart, Vol Au Vents And The Wapping Streets
Ep8: Isambard Kingdon Brunel, Ships, Bones And Bad Breath

They can all be seen and heard here: Folk Olympics

 

Oct 1, New Series! Folk Olympics

After a couple of months of recovery after ending year long East End ‘Song A Week’
extravaganza,I’m teaming up with Londonist.com to bring you ‘Folk Olympics’. This will be a
fortnightly series of tales from the 5 Olympic Boroughs; Tower Hamlets, Greenwich, Hackney,
Waltham Forest and Newham and songs inspired by them.

This series runs until July 2012 and you can find it all here: ‘Folk Olympics’

 

July 27, BBC The Robert Elms Show

Today I had the great honour of being the first person in the history of the world to perform at the London Aquatic centre, host of all aquatic events for London 2012! As a guest on the Robert Elms show I was invited to chat and perform ‘Three Words’ which has a connection to Newham the borough where  we were broadcasting from. You can here it all here.

 

June 28, Live At Carnivale, Whitechapel

 

June 20, Rehearsals Begin, Carnivale Whitechapel

 

June 13, At Carnivale, Whitechapel. The site of our show.

 

April 15, Hanging Out With The Big Boys

 

Last Minute Preparations