New Album
Nuts & Bolts
Now released!
CD (Compact Disc format) purchase link. UK / EU price is £12 (+P&P).
Download only version available from Bandcamp: Click Here
Shipped on the following day. Track list:
- Nuts & Bolts / Woman About the House / TheYellowMini (G.Blakeley / Trad. / G.Blakeley)
- Crooked Jack (Trad. Melody, Lyrics By Dominic Behan)
- Alfred and Matilda (G.Blakeley)
- Solitude at the Long Barrow (G.Blakeley)
- The Poor Ditching Boy / Wired to the Moon (Richard Thompson / Michael McGoldrick)
- The Mechanic / Cook in the Kitchen / The Congress Reel / The Tarbolton (G.Blakeley / Trad. / Trad. / Trad.)
- Dark Water / Show Me the Money (E.Blakeley / G.Blakeley)
- Mary and the Soldier (Trad. Irish song from County Antrim)
- The Promise/Banish Misfortune (G.Blakeley / Trad.)
- Shooting with the Kids / William’s Reel / Spanner in the Works (T.Curd / G.Blakeley / G.Blakeley)
Featuring: Garry & Edward Blakeley, Tom Curd, Hugo Degenhardt, Jon Ewen, Russell Field, Roger Flack, James Gulliver, Phillip Henry, Phil Hudson, Dan Jefferies, and John Spiers
Limited edition tee
£19.99
UK P&P – £1
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Artwork by Seb Relf
Hastings father and son folk-duo Blakeley & Son have grown their reputation locally over the years while developing a varied sound that is capable of both excitement and sublimity.
Garry (father) has a long standing reputation as a fiddle player of great technical versatility, with an excitement that gets the audiences before him dancing unstoppably. His collaborative credits are notable too: he is now a member of the celebrated Feast of Fiddles where he is working with Phil Beer, Chris Leslie, Peter Knight, Tom Leary, Brian McNeill, Ian Cutler, Hugh Crabtree, Dave Mattacks, Martin Vincent and Dave Harding. In the past he had toured Europe often with the Celtic band, Brian Boru, and has supported artists such as Christy Moore and Steeleye Span, and the legendary Barry Dransfield. He is known most locally as being very comfortable with the folk-rock genre, having spent many years playing with Better Days and The Tabs.
Ed (son) provides the accompaniment and production, which often takes the duo’s sound to many different unexpected places, much further outside of traditional folk music than an average audience might ordinarily be comfortable with. Somehow, they never leave the genre entirely though, and there is always a feeling of great musical comfort that emanates from the undeniably traditional routes of their playing style.
Over the years the duo have attracted the best in local talent, and are often accompanied by some of the greatest musicians the area has to offer. They regularly invite others to play at their shows.
Their newest album Nuts & Bolts has been described at subtle yet exciting, and features an astonishing array of guest musicians that the duo have worked with in the past, including the likes of John Spiers (Bellowhead), Phillip Henry (Edgelarks), Phil Hudson (The Lighthouse Family), and Roger Flack (Gigspanner).