Had a really nice chat with Joe Reilly last week about the origins of One Leg One Eye, the story behind the songs as well as the imminent Canadian tour. Listen back to it here - cod.ckcufm.com/programs/107... 𓆙 𓆙 𓆙

My first fall read is "A Lush and Seething Hell" (2019) by @johnhornor.bsky.social I put it on my TBR after I heard Ian Lynch talk about it on @firedrawnear.bsky.social last year, not really knowing what to expect. My GOD, is it good. Disturbing. Carnal. Can't put it down.

!!! @firedrawnear.bsky.social

I'm delighted to announce that Episode LXIII is finally finished and online for your enjoyment and responsible consumption. This one is a focused look at Shape Note singing in the United States. campsite.bio/firedrawnear X

Sometimes archaeology is so dull. Data entry day as part of the Northampton deposit modelling project. On my second listen of this fine episode for my sanity!

Episode LXII is live as of yesterday evening! I have just recently gotten my vinyl and CD collections back from where they were stored for 6 months (thanks Crispo!!), an event that definitely makes itself felt in this episode. campsite.bio/firedrawnear X

I went to see The Texas Chain Saw Massacre on 35mm last night at the @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social presented by @firedrawnear.bsky.social & I had thoughts about the film's Buddhist aspect which I explicate here: www.patreon.com/posts/tao-of...

Cassettes available from us on Friday, & UK friends can pick up tapes directly from the artist at Supersonic in Birmingham this weekend! Vinyl/digital via Nyahh: nyahhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/and-take-the-black-worm-with-me Support Ian’s incredible podcast: @firedrawnear.bsky.social

Anyone who was lucky enough to see Andy the Doorbum at the Grand Social knows him as an 8-foot-tall Cthulhu-like demon of radical empathy, but here he is being a folksinger with @firedrawnear.bsky.social - he's the missing link between Woody Guthrie & Alice Cooper www.instagram.com/reel/DNMZOaf...

New episode on the ballad Sam Hall aka Jack Hall aka Jack Caundle coming out today for all Patreon subscribers! campsite.bio/firedrawnear X

As ever, fantastic show! I especially loved Cormac Begley & Liam O Connor's "Ryan's Rant" and Junior Brother's bloody brilliant "Welcome To My Mountain".

absolutely exquisite episode of @firedrawnear.bsky.social this time - Blackwater Side podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

FDN Episode LXI has just gone live! It is a lengthy heady blast through all of the amazing music that has come my way over the last month. The draft is full and rich. Drink deep and be let contentment be your wealth. campsite.bio/firedrawnear X

Thanks to @lglpalmer.bsky.social for this great review of the One Leg One Eye gig in the Cube Bristol last week! www.bristol247.com/culture/musi...

A new episode, which looks at the ballad Blackwater Side and the journey that it took from 17th century to a Traveller site outside Belfast in 1952 and from there to the first Led Zeppelin LP. X campsite.bio/firedrawnear

Tonight we play with the one (and only) Rich(ard) Dawson (the best) and Lou Terry in the Cowley Workers Social Club (Oxford)!!!!

Tour starts this week!!! 𓆙

Next month!!!

it a comedic children's song or is there something more serious and grotesque at play? The Old Man from Lee aka The Old Man fro Over the Sea. Get on the Patreon if you want to hear this one now, otherwise come back in a few months! Artwork by Glyn Smyth campsite.bio/firedrawnear

If that’s something you find interesting, then you’ll love this @firedrawnear.bsky.social episode about an old Irish song that ends up making its way to Lead Belly overcast.fm/+AAjD__i9kHY

"ACAB" et "tout le monde déteste la police" marchent déjà très bien comme slogans mais rien n'empêche d'ajouter "Hey hey daloy politzei!" au répertoire. (Thanks to @firedrawnear.bsky.social for the discovery.)

FDN LX was recorded in a bedroom in a house in the 9th ward of New Orleans. Upon reflection it features many friends, peers and contemporaries, Leland Palmer, Ola Belle Reed and even Dickie Rock. It is online now. soundcloud.com/firedrawnear...

#equinox early morning dog walking, listening to an old episode of @firedrawnear.bsky.social in the sun. Perfect

Me listening to the three-part podcast series by @firedrawnear.bsky.social on the history of “The Wild Rover” on.soundcloud.com/e329u99TDehw...

Just chanced upon this page and all these glowing reviews of FDN completely made my day :))) ❤️

Here Hare Here!

The Hares on the Mountain!!! What does it have to do with a knife in a window? It's all here in this transatlantic mash-up of a multi-faceted traditional song centered around nothing other than some good old honest-to-God rolling over of ones leg. campsite.bio/firedrawnear X Pic by Tesni Ward

Medieval butt music! Doom trad!! Cradle of Filth!!! The 1916 rising if it was an American cop drama!!!! All this and more in FDN episode LIX, out now in all the usual places! Xxx campsite.bio/firedrawnear #firedrawnear #endlessdescentofthetraditionaryweirdo #traditionalirishmusic

Episode LVIX out tomorrow at noon. That's #59 for the non roman numerally literate amongst you. Woooo!!!!!! X campsite.bio/firedrawnear

Did you hear the one about the Newry Highwayman? He travelled through time and space only to mutate into a watered down trope in a dull cowboy song. New bonus episode for the patreons out now!!!! campsite.bio/firedrawnear

And the last gig of the year. Finishing as I started. One Leg One Eye. Summoning the black worm through ancient ritual and modern artifice. An experience from another world.

One Leg One Eye gig tonight was spectacular, started with sounds like the shifting of the Earth’s tectonic plates, moved into the most terrifying rendition of I’d Rather Be Tending My Sheep imaginable, ended with Liam Clancy reading Yeats’ The Second Coming. A fitting finale to live music in 2024.

The bonus episode looking at the Boston Burglar is now online for all and sundry to listen to / enjoy / hate / tear apart!!! X campsite.bio/firedrawnear

Gently floating home after a mesmerising performance from One Leg One Eye @firedrawnear.bsky.social at the Trades Club #HebdenBridge tonight. If you can get a ticket for the current tour, don't hesitate 𓆙

Very much looking forward to this

Tour starts tomorrow in Hebden Bridge!!! See you there 𓆙 🔥 𓆙

Doom folk dream lineup.

Come on Belfast!!! 𓆙 𓆙 𓆙

Who will survive and what will be left of them? 𓆙 𓆙 𓆙

This wouldn't be the first time I was talking about something a year and a half before everyone else, but this was an accident: I was asked to review the Arkitekt's 8-hour ambient mix The Deep Ark for The Wire, and then . . . it never came out. For over a year. Until now. thedeepark.com

Been rather neglectful on this platform. To make up for it, here’s our most recent show. www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigita...

2.5 hours of electronic music + ambient from women + gender expansive artists here ——> open.spotify.com/playlist/3mJ...

Looking forward to this. Andy the Doorbum at In the Meadows one of my most memorable gigs of the year. Blew my mind

Strongly recommended.

Anyone who was lucky enough to see the extraordinary Andy The Doorbum on his too-brief European tour will be extremely excited to listen to this:

This is gonna be good. Andy the Doorbum is a fuckin hero, putting in huge work to reach devastated rural communities in NC. And his gothic metal stage show is genuinely one of the craziest gigs I've ever seen. Can very much recommend this episode as one to tune in for if you like Appalachian music.

Episode LVIII is a spotlight on the Appalachian region of the USA based around an interview with the one and only Andy the Doorbum and focusing on the relief work that he is currently carrying out there. campsite.bio/firedrawnear

If folk is your thing, you can't go wrong with this.

One Leg One Eye North UK tour starts in less than 2 weeks! 𓆙 𓆙 𓆙