Autumn Tour on sale now!! Www.manthelifeboats.com

Enjoying this duo tour so far, 3 cracking shows down, 6 to go. Come on out!!

Lovely!

Tour’s underway!! Tickets from www.manthelifeboats.com

Huge thanks to Man The Lifeboats for an absolutely brilliant gig at the Queen's Hall Theatre, Cranbrook! 🎶⚓️ #ManTheLifeboats #LiveMusic #Cranbrook #Folk #ThankYou #GreatGig #windymillerswhirligig #stedithfolk #queenshalltheatre #queenshallcranbrook #thequeenshall #kent @manthelifeboats.bsky.social

Thank you @queenshalltheatre.bsky.social and St Edith Folk!! Bonkers end to a great gig :-)

@manthelifeboats.bsky.social Nobody Home open.spotify.com/track/2Pqxqv...

Thank you Shrewsbury !!

Come on then Shrewsbury!!

We got some announcements to announce Wanna know more? Mailing list sign up go for it please do thank you :-))))) www.manthelifeboats.com

Cracking stuff @ivwuk.bsky.social at the John Peel Centre, Stowmarket. Thanks for coming down and partying everyone!!

Live at the John Peel Centre, Stowmarket for @ivwuk.bsky.social Come along and support live music and grassroots music venues!! @musicvenuetrust.bsky.social Tickets here www.johnpeelcentre.com/event/man-th...

We are immensely grateful for Frank Turner's continued support. ✨ "For the upcoming April tour, I’m proud to say I’ve partnered up with my old friends at MVT. £1 from every ticket will go towards supporting local independent music venues." - @frankturner.bsky.social

This morning’s stunning fact: Next year Wembley Stadium will host more live music events than sporting events. And the live music events it will host are guaranteed to financially support grassroots football, but not guaranteed to support grassroots live music.

“All the fish are now sold” Football, like pretty much everything, is up for sale again. Didn’t watch Russia or Qatar and won’t be watching this. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Great show lined up for Independent Venue Week @ivwuk.bsky.social

These are the numbers worth celebrating #spotifywrapped #spotifymugged

Spotify Wrapped isn’t just free advertising for the streaming giant. As @lizpelly.bsky.social explained back in 2020, the campaign also reinforces the toxic idea that music’s value is determined solely by its number of streams.

A reminder of just what grassroots music venues mean to artists, communities, and the economy. Sign up to our mailing list at MusicVenueTrust.com to stay informed on ways we can continue working together to keep venues open.

Massive away win for the little fella.

November was mad

⚡️Folk Alliance International Best Artst 2024 Nomination!❤️ Hugely appreciated! Wasn’t expecting this! I opened the voting email intending to cast my own votes for the nominated artists only to discover my own name among them! First round of voting ends at midnight for FAImembers www.folk.org/about 🩷

Here you go then!! Happy advent y’all 🥃🌲❤️ #manthelifeboats #mtl #christmas #christmasnumberone youtu.be/eSaxnjEVEzA?...

The number of festivals cancelled from 2023 to 2024 has doubled

Manchester, early 2025 No fee 0% commission 100% to the bands and artists taking part More news soon

Well that was fun 🤪 Best toilet we’ve ever played in!! (Crowd mostly borrowed from Mad Dog McRea)

Why do the Scottish do beautiful songs about death better than anyone else? In particular King Creosote - this is stunning youtu.be/Qeld8P4Rd_8?... #nowplaying #kingcreosote

Very useful!!! @musicvenuetrust.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏

Please spread the word. Let’s help connect people with some great music voices.

Can’t wait for this one!! Mad Dog McRea support slot on Friday in Tunbridge Wells. If you haven’t seen them before they are a force of nature. Gigs can go on for hours. A bit like Bruce Springsteen if he’d been raised in a gypsy caravan on whisky 🥃 Tickets: www.twforum.co.uk/events/2024-...

Our Club Guide page now has a searchable Google map of clubs, sessions, singarounds and venues around London: folklondon.co.uk/club-guide/ The map itself is here: www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v... Let us know if you find any errors, or want your event listed

Save Our Scene and MVT have announced the Liveline Fund which aims to strengthen the UK grassroots music ecosystem. We will have more to share on this very soon.

With the now well documented crisis in grassroots music, it will be interesting to see whether artists and fans flood social media with Spotify Wrapped again this year Here’s a piece I wrote about #wrapped www.drownedinsound.org/existential-...

What a beauty of a night at The Greystones, followed by a cheeky few down at Fagan’s.. Thanks everyone for braving the storm and coming out, we had a blast!! #manthelifeboats #mtl #live #lifeboats #sheffield #greystones #folk #folkmusic

Where would you like to see us play in 2025? And as a side note, where are all the music venues on here?? Come on venueland!!

Another fantastic line up of folk gigs, social dances and workshops in the next 2 weeks including the Sheffield Folk Celebration weekend at Crookes Social Club this weekend. Please see the website for more details and a list of events in December and next year. #sheffield

Just a few tickets left wegottickets.com/event/616204

When’s a good time to drop a #Christmas song? And don’t say never :-)

One more Autumn Tour show to go, and it’s a wonderful hometown extravaganza at The Greystones in Sheffield. Over half the tickets have already been sold so the place is going to be bouncing!! Tx here: wegottickets.com/event/616204/ #manthelifeboats #mtl #sheffield #folk #live #livemusic

Katie Fitzgerald’s is a beauty of a grassroots music venue. There’s always a warm welcome, it sounds great, the atmosphere is fantastic, and there’s a photo of @joelycett.bsky.social in the dressing room. And it was bouncing last night‼️ 🤪🕺🔥

Black Country Goodness

Gig essentials in Stourbridge

NEW LIVE VIDEO!!!! The Ballad Of Sarah Hughes - live in Camden Town!! Possibly the only song dedicated to the good old Dark Ruby Mild, unless anyone knows different? youtu.be/b8FFYc83LTE?...

New music video incoming!! Come and give us a subscribe over on the YouTelly #manthelifeboats #mtl #lifeboats #youtube #music #musicvideo #livemusic #mtv youtube.com/@manthelifeb...

Happy Grassroots Music Day UK!

Now playing open.spotify.com/track/3MNbhv...

Given how many people are joining Bluesky at the moment … I thought I’d share this folk music-ish starter pack again. If you know of any interesting and active accounts that should be on there please let me know. go.bsky.app/D5A8kE4