Milton Hide
Songwriting duo from Hastings, East Sussex, UK. Jo Church and Jim Tipler. New online directory of all things folk and roots, THE ROOTS LIST is now live.
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- We are working on a new project, branching out and working with others. There’s a lot of planning and admin to do first and recent events have been conspiring against us, eating into that planning time. But we’ll get there. It will be worth it. #artsproject #noteshome #branchingout
- We’ve got some local gigs lined up this month. Unplugged Saturday tour (5 venues in one afternoon!) on 14 Feb for Hastings Fat Tuesday; Chalk House Sessions in Lewes on 19 Feb; The Cove in Fairlight on 26 Feb. (Thanks to Wendy Holmes for the photo) #hastings #grassrootsmusic #eastsussex
- It was great to spend an afternoon just wandering aimlessly around Rye without any agenda. #eastsussex #architecture #rye
- Meg accompanied us to our gig at The Albion in Hastings yesterday. She was so good! Happy to sit with anyone in the audience and give us sidelong glances like we’re her embarrassing parents. 😆 #dogsatgigs #dogsinpubs #hastingsdogs
- Only remembered to get 2 of the things on today’s shopping list while we were out and about. Guess which two? #shoppinglist
- There are just a few tickets left for our gig with Scurravagus in Beckenham. wegottickets.com/event/687132 #beckenham #livemusic #latr
- I painted that picture of Jim 26 years ago, from a photo taken when he was 19. It’s now on the wall of his new studio where he practices guitar 😁 #guitar #art
- Our first gig of 2026 is this coming Saturday, 17 Jan, at The Albion in Hastings (UK). It’s an afternoon gig, 4pm, in the Seafront bar. We’ll be rolling out a new song and a new tune! 😁 #hastings #singersongwriter #livemusic
- Cat-ching up on #caturday. Smudge ‘helps’ with the Milton Hide website, after making himself unpopular at 3am…and 5am….and 6am.
- This is what Sundays are for. ❤️ #sandwichgeneration #grandparenting
- Lessons in how to relax ☺️ #dogsofbluesky #catsofbluesky
- We’ve had some beautiful walks lately. Feeling chilled and refreshed at the same time, ready to plunge back into the business of making music 🙂🎶 #hastings #bexhill #ore #folk
- Another stringed instrument in the house! This time it’s for Jo. 5 chords mastered so far 😁
- To coincide with @bandcamp.com Friday we released Forgetting To Live. A song about our over reliance on Social Media. (We do get the irony by the way ;-) miltonhide.bandcamp.com/track/forget... Have a listen and let us know what you think. #bandcampfriday #klezmer style #satire
- Feeling festive after tree decorating with help from a 2 year old and showing him twinkly lights on the way home. Ready for our festive Bluebell Roots gig on Sunday. #festive #gigready #musiciansonbluesky
- "This year I'll do Christmas Lite" Something we did a few years ago. I think possibly our first video. Thought wed share again. Hope you like youtu.be/qEsug_KBXE0?...
- Megan is really enjoying Hastings’ live music scene. We are too. Two wonderful gigs within a very short walk of each other - Jude Brothers at The Jenny Lind and Rob Corcoran at Noah’s Goat wine shop. Someone said the other day she has the best ears in Hastings! Here she is listening to Rob C
- #musicwomenwednesday Here’s Jo performing our song Say It All The Time youtu.be/-GNY229d6uY?...
- Our UK roots music website is up and running. The Roots List is a friendly directory for anyone involved with or who loves folk and roots music. Browse the site today, create your (public or private) profile and start listing your folk and roots events! #folk #roots #listings www.therootslist.co.uk
- We’ll be playing at the festive Bluebell Roots session in Arlington on 7th December. Joining us will be Bruce & Carolyn, John & Di Cullen, Jade, Two’s Company and more. Tickets from bluebellroots.co.uk Pay for meal in advance, bring cash for music on the night. #livemusic #eastsussex #grassroots
- On Friday, Milton Hide moved back to our spiritual home of Hastings, after being away for 35 years! This morning we wandered down to the old town, said ´hello’ to loads of people and breathed in the sea air😁❤️ #hastings #movinghome #cominghome
- The beauty of our Bluebell Roots nights is not just the wonderful music ( thank you @chriscleverley.bsky.social) or the delicious food, it’s the amazing people all brought together through music. Next event 7Dec, bluebellroots.co.uk #grassrootsmusic #arlington #musicians #people
- As well as being 50% of Milton Hide, I am a visual artist and currently seeking bookings to give demonstrations and run workshops to Art groups across the UK to tie in with our tours. See website for prices and details. #womenartists #arttutor #artistsonbluesky #artgroup www.josietipler.co.uk
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- Book now to see Chris Cleverley on 2nd November at Arlington’s Bluebell Roots linktr.ee/bluebellroots 6pm. Pass the Hat. Food available -booking essential. BYOB chriscleverley.com #chriscleverley #livemusic #eastsussexgigs #blueskymusic
- Chuffed to be played on the wonderful Pete Jones' show on Radio Reverb again this week. The bloke is a legend. Loads of support for local music (Brighton and surrounding areas) - have a listen 👂📻 www.mixcloud.com/RadioReverb/... @radioreverb.bsky.social #brighton #localradio #miltonhide #bungaroosh
- Yesterday in the sunshine we finally scattered the ashes of this little guy’s best friend/arch enemy. He’s been our shadow since the day we said goodbye. #lastgoodbye #cats #catsofbluesky
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- This is one of my favourite songs to sing. We wrote it as part of the National Lottery funded Your Stories In Song project. Inspired by the late Amy Wooller’s writings of local Wilmington characters. youtu.be/AG5gOfeDa-c?... #folksong #folksky #songwriter #mollymothballs
- Our 'Question of the Show' for our next Bluebell Notes podcast is: What's the furthest you've travelled to a gig? Let us know who was playing (or if it was YOUR gig) and where. And how did you get there? 😀 #bluebellnotes #musicpodcast #rootsmusic
- Here’s the YouTube link to our music podcast, Bluebell Notes. youtube.com/@bluebellnot... Sponsored by Long Way Home Productions, our podcasts feature interviews and music from guests plus a lot of related and off the wall chat and laughter. #podcast #musicpodcast #bluebellnotes #rootsmusic
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- When you are feeling angry or frustrated, writing angry lyrics is really cathartic!! I came up with these lyrics after a long and unsatisfactory conversation with a "customer services representative". I went for a long walk with the dog and wrote: youtu.be/FpMd9yDSmOI?... #cathartic #songwriting
- It’s really hard to be upbeat sometimes. Here’s our song inspired by the book by Auschwitz survivor, Eddi Jaku. In the aftermath he chose to be happy in order to honour those that didn’t survive. youtu.be/33quJtfWhQA?... #hardtimes #lovenothate #spreadjoy #behappy
- A bit late for #worldmenopauseday but here is our song about my experiences and Jim’s mid life crisis. #menopauseawareness is really important, must be taught in schools. I am still embarrassed that I knew so little about what was happening to my own body. youtu.be/qh-Ah7PlfN0?...
- We spent a pleasant Saturday morning performing outside Tenterden Museum. Small town and village museums are brilliant resources that need to be celebrated. That’s our final gig in the diary ‘til spring. Now: recording, writing, admin … and recharging #museums #tenterden #folk #keephistoryalive
- Episode 13 of Bluebell Notes the podcast is now up, featuring April Moon. bluebellnotes.podbean.com/e/bluebell-n... #ontour #canadiana @aprilmoonband.bsky.social
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- bluebellnotes.podbean.com Episode 12 of our podcast is up now, featuring Donna Canale. Extended interview with Donna and an interview with @katiespencermusic.bsky.social coming soon on bonus content Off Beat #podcast #musicpodcast #podbean
