Folk Police Recordings
A record label wreaking havoc on sensible definitions of folk music whilst raising funds to support wildlife & nature recovery. Join the mailing list at the link below. Defend nature. Posts by Nigel Spencer
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- Reposted by Folk Police RecordingsRIP Fred Smith of Television — one of the coolest bassists of all time.
- Wrong Speed Records is rapidly becoming my favourite UK label
- Now playing: very late to the party but this is lovely thetubs.bandcamp.com/album/cotton...
- Now playing: Heard a Long Gone Song by the incomparable Lisa O’Neill, possibly one of my favourite singers 😍
- Tom Verlaine, gone two years. Here’s Television live in Cleveland in 1975 youtu.be/j8Q-niwYFcw?...
- Now paying: River of Amber/Frozen Waterfall by CUBS on Rusted Rail Records from 2021. Gorgeous psych folk from Ireland with Ghost Box-like hauntological underpinnings. Lovely. rustedrail.bandcamp.com/album/river-...
- RIP Sly Dunbar, who played on so many of my favourite reggae tracks, including this banger youtu.be/A3PjURr7lb4?...
- Now playing: Bandas Sonoras by Elizabeth Still and Dominic Plucknett - a gorgeous album of guitar duets, found sounds and field recordings from 2021. Amazingly there are still CD copies available in a lovely sleeve by David Hand stillplucknett.bandcamp.com/album/bandas...
- Second gig of the year with my pal @jacklikesfilms.bsky.social was the mighty Haress. Transcendental rural psychedelia with a sprinkling of folky magic! The interplay between Elizabeth & David’s guitars was a thing of great beauty.
- Loving this mix from @cravenfaults.bsky.social - I bought a copy of the Cherry Red reissue single of the Misunderstood track in 1982 after hearing it on Peel www.dublab.com/archive/crav...
- Just caught up with @jacklikesfilms.bsky.social for my first gig of the year, The Wran at Gullivers. They were brilliant and the atmosphere was so good. Also how does one person sing, play accordion and play drums simultaneously? youtu.be/8XTduUhlvPw?...
- Now playing: catching up on a few of the many interesting albums that I missed in 2025. This one by Willie Lane is fantastic - irresistible, spaced-out psychedelic folk-blues. With Ryan Jewel and SBHOTM’s Rob Thomas as a bonus! willielane.bandcamp.com/album/bobcat...
- I do miss Jen Powers’ Aural Thicket. Completely the wrong season, but episode 40 was a banger www.mixcloud.com/auralthicket...
- The gorgeous Riverdance by Rapunzel & Sedayne from the 2011 album Songs From The Barley Temple youtu.be/PRAwuMa4yHU?...
- The Woodbine & Ivy Band’s version of the song Gently Johnny from the Wicker Man soundtrack is still one of the tracks I’m most proud of having released on Folk Police. folkpolicerecordings.bandcamp.com/track/gently...
- It makes me unreasonably happy to know that there are English folk bands out there that base their entire look on the fellow from this Matt Bors cartoon
- The Reader’s Lamp, the first track available to preview on the forthcoming release by @theleaflibrary.bsky.social, After The Rain, Strange Seeds, is gorgeous. Really looking forward to the rest of the album shop.fikarecordings.com/album/after-...
