Watch: BBC Spotlight behind the scenes of Live at the Minack DVD
December 7, 2009
Listen: Live Gig on 6Music/iPlayer
December 1, 2009
BBC 6Music broadcast an old gig from 2006 last night at the ungodly hour of 4am. Luckily it’s available to listen to at a more civilised hour on iPlayer for the next 7 days.
In a blast-from-the-past treat for fans, the half-hour gig includes tracks not included in the current live set and features popular former band member, Cormac Byrne, in full bodhran flow on The Bold Knight and Lady of the Sea.
Setlist:
- Take No Rogues
- John Lomas
- Blood Upon Copper
- King and Country
- The Final Lot
- Rifleman of War
- The Bold Knight – with Cormac on bodhran
- Lady of the Sea – ditto!
Listen Again:
iPlayer (until end of 7 Dec 2009)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00p4p27
The gig starts around the 2h 34m mark with a special mention of dedicated Seth fans, The Mirelings.
Watch: Seth discusses new live DVD
November 27, 2009
Interview and preview clips …
Watch: Solomon Browne Live at Shrewsbury Folk 09
November 3, 2009
Top quality official festival video of Seth’s live performance on the main stage at Shrewsbury Folk Festival 2009.
Watch: Cormac Byrne on-stage with Seth at Cropredy 09
August 21, 2009
A nostalgic moment for long-time fans, as Cormac Byrne joins Seth on-stage for a classic performance of ‘Lady of the Sea’ at Fairport’s Cropredy Convention 2009. Cormac, with his dazzling bodhran playing, was Seth’s original percussionist. Before he left the regular band this pairing of fiddle and bodhran for the high-energy Lady of the Sea was a staple of the live set. Cormac last toured with the band in Autumn 2007.
Cormac now devotes most of his time to his own band, celtic folk trio Uiscedwr (www.uiscedwr.com).
Other good videos (all on YouTube) from Cropredy – with its big stage, huge crowd, and massive light show – include this good quality recording of set-opener The Storm (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Ktkv4pQKs) and I have a soft spot for this one of set closer Race to be King (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnN2k3Kr3C8) – despite the shakey camera – perfectly capturing the wild atmosphere of the night.
Backstage at Cropredy with Radio FiveLive
August 19, 2009
Seth Lakeman plays Kitty Jay backstage at Cropredy. Click for full size version. Photo from @wittertainment
Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode caught up with Seth backstage at Cropredy last Friday for an exclusive performance of Kitty Jay and short interview, before his field-storming headline performance that night.
You can listen again on iPlayer until this Friday (starts around the 58min mark after the Kermode film reviews) and on the Simon Mayo podcast (at about 16min mark).
Listen to the podcast
Download » (right-click and choose ’save target…’)
Background folk/punk mashups by Ade Edmondson and the Bad Shepherds.
Watch: Seth performing The Leveller’s, ‘The Boatman’ (2005)
August 6, 2009
Seth accompanies The Lev’s Simon Friend on the classic Leveller’s track, The Boatman. Simon was a surprise guest at this gig with Seth Lakeman and Benji Kirpatrick at Ely Folk Club way back in January 2005.
Thanks to Mary Stokes for the find.
Updated 12 May with extra photos from Philip Ryalls and Jeremy LLewellyn-Jones.
“it was pretty stadium. I wanted to crowd surf but I thought the girls at the front wouldn’t catch me” - Jim Moray
The long-awaited round-up of press coverage, photos and video from last weekend’s gig on Trafalgar Square is here. A bit light on the former, but plenty of the latter for you.
Press Coverage
The gig didn’t get much press, but there were short write-ups in The London Paper (including a few photos), various bits in The Guardian and over on The Telegraph Emma Hartley interviewed Damian Barber from the Demon Barbers.
Photos & Video
 Photo © Garry Knight |
 Photo © Caroline Voaden |
The fans unsurprisingly came through where the mainsteam media feared to tread. Lots of photos with some great shots from Caroline Voaden (flickr), Karen Armstrong (flickr), High Eight (flickr), and Helen Fenner (photobucket).
Plus these late-breaking extras from Philip Ryalls and Jeremy LLewellyn-Jones – a couple of the professional photographers who were in attendance.
There was also some surprisingly good-quality video shot from the crowd:
Full highlights, with Seth performing Blood Upon Copper
(and Sean rocking out in his fabulous red shoes)
Seth Lakeman: Kitty Jay and Poor Man’s Heaven
More video
More slightly-more-iffy video of Solomon Browne, King and Country, and Riflemen of War
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Interview and Gig Review from What’s On South West
April 7, 2009
What’s On South West caught up with Seth before the Plymouth gig for one of the few interviews from the recent mini-tour.
The interview chats about the inspiration behind the Brand! New! Songs! which gripped audiences at the recent gigs, and throws in a few festival rumours (Glasto, V Festival, Ireland’s Electric Picnic ??) for good measure.
Interview (including audio version)
‘Seth Lakeman returns to Plymouth for intimate show’
Clare Robinson, What’s On South West, March 2009
Review:
Seth Lakeman at The White Rabbit, Plymouth, 24 Mar 09
Clare Robinson, What’s On South West, March 2009
With thanks to @stokes_the_fire via the TwitterFeed for the heads-up
Folk Awards 2009 Roundup
February 8, 2009
Seth presenting former mentor, Tom McConville, with the Musician of the Year Award at the 2009 Folk Awards. Photo © Allan Price. More of Allan’s Folk Awards photos »
News
The annual BBC Folk Awards took place in London on Mon 2 Feb 2009, amidst the worst snow storm to hit the capitol in 18 years.
Seth was nominated for a single award this year, for Best Live Act, and opened the show with a typically storming live performance of ‘The Hurlers’. With obvious pleasure, he went on to present long-time teacher and friend, ‘Newcastle Fiddler’ Tom McConville, with the award for Musician of the Year, paying strong tribute to the man who so inspired his own playing. You can listen again » to the full ceremony until Web 11 Feb.
In the Best Live Act category Seth was up against stiff competition from fellow former Folk Award winners Lau and Bellowhead, but on the night the winners were the comparatively little-known Demon Barbers (aka The Demon Barber Roadshow) who have been not-so-quietly winning over festival audiences with their live performances which, accompanied by some hot clog and morris dancing, lay genuine claim to the old folk "foot stomping" cliché.
- Seth nominated for Best Live Act (original post)
- Full list of 2009 Folk Award Winners (BBC website)
- More about The Demon Barbers (official website)
Full ceremony
Listen Again : Folk Awards 2009 » until 11/02/2009
(Originally broadcast BBC Radio 2, Wed 4 Feb, 7-8.30pm.)
The ceremony was broadcast in full in the Mike Harding Folk & Acoustic slot on Radio 2 on Wed 4 Feb. Catch Seth’s show opening performance of ‘The Hurlers’ and heartfelt presentation of the Musician of the Year award to long-time mentor, teacher and friend Tom McConville. You can listen again via iPlayer until Wed 11 Feb 2009.
Videoss
BBC Folk Awards 2009 Videos »
The BBC’s Folk Awards website has videos up of all the live performances and highlights of the ceremony. The main highlights video includes Seth’s presentation of the Musician of the Year award to Tom McConville. Check the links on the right for the full video of The Hurlers performance.
Photos
- Folk Awards 2009 photos by Allan Price »
including three of Seth - Performing The Hurlers »
BBC Folk Awards website
Nominated Artists Compilation CD
Proper Music’s annual Folk Awards compilation CD
Buy on amazon.co.uk »
Free Download Track
Free track: Davey Graham’s Anji »
From the BBC Folk Awards website you can also download Bert Jansch and Ralph McTell’s tribute performance of the late Davey Graham’s classic track, Anji.
New official photos, Oct 08
November 1, 2008
The players (ltr, bottom pic): Sean Lakeman (producer, guitar), Seth Lakeman, Andy Tween (percussion), Ben Nicholls (double-bass).
From the official website »
Seth interview with Martyn Joseph at Greenbelt 2008
September 28, 2008
Good long interview by Martyn Joseph at the Greenbelt Festival in August 2008. The interviews roams over Seth roots in the Devon folk scene, future directions and growing Seth’s audience – Seth ‘keeping it real’ against EMI pressures for no. 1 singles – his forthcoming trip to Malawi for the Lake of Stars festival, and being Greenbelt what part, if any, faith and religion has played in Seth’s upbringing.
(Thanks for ceakayone from The Mire for the find)
Video: backstage at Moseley Folk Festival
September 27, 2008
A new video shot backstage at Moseley Folk Festival is available on MySpace and on the official website. Quite short, it features general messing about and thoughts on the upcoming Autumn Tour, which will be Seth’s biggest yet. “A few surprises” are planned, apparently. It’s not clear whether these are surprises for us, or surprises for Seth.
Video: Catch up with Seth backstage at Moseley Folk Festival »
Seth helps launch RNLI’s 2009 “SOS” fundraising campaign
September 26, 2008
Seth helped launch the RNLI’s SOS Day in London on Web 24 Sep, performing new single Solomon Browne for RNLI volunteers aboard a Tamar class lifeboat on the River Thames.
SOS Day aims to raise £1 million for the RNLI. The national theme for this year’s campaign is Sound or Silence, and it’s hoped hundreds of RNLI supporters throughout the UK will be holding SOS themed events culminating on SOS Day on Friday 30 January 2009.
The RNLI provides nine out of 10 UK sea rescue launches, and relies on voluntary contributions for its income. Last year alone the RNLI rescued almost 8,000 people, an average of 21 people every day.
More information on how to show your support is available at www.rnli.org.uk/sosday/.
Press release: ‘Devon’s Seth Lakeman supports RNLI’s SOS Day with song in honour of the Solomon Browne‘, RNLI Press Centre, 25 Sep 2008 »
Video: Sadly rather iffy-quality video of the event and Seth’s performance from the RNLI
http://www.rnli.org.uk/who_we_are/press_centre/videos/video_detail?articleid=373951
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