Radio 1 Documentary from the 2008 Lake of Stars Festival, Malawi

Seth pops up briefly in this Mary Anne Hobbs documentary for Radio 1.

Photo from thelakeofstars.blogspot.com

The Lake of Stars Festival brings together UK and European acts with Afrobeat, gospel and tradtional African music on the tropical shores of Lake Malawi. The Radio 1 documentary web page includes links to listen online and a 2 min video so you can really get an idea what this unique festival is like. You can also download the entire programme as an MP3 file. See the links at the end.

Seth is on around the 40min and 57min mark. Also, in photos 5 and 19 on the Radio 1 web page and in a few more photos on the official festival blog.

Worth a listen if you are interested in learning more about the festival and hearing lots of different music and artists, otherwise, honestly?, "obSethive completist" territory.

ps. Thanks for Clarros for the heads-up.

Mary Anne Hobbs at Malawi’s Lake Of Stars festival, BBC Radio 1
Listen online, video and further info | Download (mp3) | Photos (nos 5 & 19)

Lake of Stars Website & Blog
Seth Lakeman gig photos | Festival website | Festival blog

Southampton gig, 18 Jan 2009

Another small venue gig, standing this time, at Southampton’s The Brook on 18 January. Details from The Brook website. Tickets £16. Online bookings at WeGotTickets.com (booking fee payable).

More gig dates, including another new addition at Buxton Opera House in May, on the new gigs page.

Seth Lakeman’s "Best Stuff" of 2008

Seth does his ‘The Best Thing I’ve Heard All Year’ thing for Mojo magazine. The short version:

Gigs:

• Cherryholmes (Cambridge Folk Festival)
  "I was completely blown away …this family band doing bluegrass and all sorts and every one of them singing so well. I thought I’d discovered them. I ran back to the guys and said we must get them on tour supporting us! It wasn’t until afterwards that I found out they were already huge in the States and had won about four Grammies, so it would have been more a question of us supporting them!
• Steve Earle (Big Session, Leicester)
• Kaiser Chiefs (Rock for People, Prague)
• Oysterband (Beautiful Days, Devon)
  "I’ve seen them loads of times before but this was just one of those occasions when everything worked right. I love their latest album Meet You There anyway and that gig was very special."

Albums:

• Levon Helm Dirt Farmer
  "you can tell it’s set around a live atmosphere … there’s such a great emphasis on rhythm, which appeals to me "
• Benji Kirkpatrick’s fantastic, inexplicably under-rated, more explicably under-publicised Boomerang
  (on which, completists will want to know, Seth does fiddle duty for a couple of tracks)

Full interview: ‘Seth Lakeman: The Best Thing I’ve Heard All Year’, Mojo magazine, 25 Nov 2008 »