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OTHER WEBSITES THAT FEATURE ALISTAIR’S WORKThe Malkies is a new band that features Alistair on vocals and guitar, with a new album 'Suited and Booted' out now on Limbo Music. For more information and sample tracks visit the Malkies Website at www.themalkies.co.uk Folk Icons is a website that mainly focuses on Alistair’s ongoing partnership with the English fiddle maestro, Dave Swarbrick. News of Swarb’s other current projects, as well as the websites of several associated ‘icons of folk’ he’s worked with over the years, can also be found here. www.folkicons.co.uk The Roaring Jack Archives began as a fan’s tribute site for Alistair’s mid-eighties punk folk band Roaring Jack, but has now grown into a much-visited repository of rogue folk memorabilia. As well as links to interesting RJ related stuff, The Archives provides a chat line and info service for those who like their folk music fast, loud and furious, and also carries a mail order purchases page for buying Alistair Hulett albums Down Under. www.roaringjack.com The Mudcat Café is a handy place to locate the lyrics of many of the traditional songs that Alistair has performed and recorded alongside his own compositions over the years. Its associated Digital Folk Song Data Base often provides melodies along with the texts. You could live for several months in this fascinating website. www.mudcat.org The Centre For Political Song in Glasgow is the largest archive of political music in the world. Ally has several songs in this archive and was recently invited to join its management committee. www.caledonian.ac.uk/politicalsong Radio Britfolk is an artist-run Internet radio station that also provides a mail order service for several of Alistair’s albums and occasionally plays tracks from them on its Billboard. The programmes on this station feature the best of the folk music being played around the festivals and folk clubs in Britain and Ireland today, as well as broadcasting instrument workshops from some of the artists involved in running the station. www.radiobritfolkhome.co.uk Shite ‘n’ Onions Radio is a digital radio station in the USA that plays punk and Celtic folk, including Roaring Jack. Visit the website and type ‘shite’n’onions’ into the search. www.live365.com Scallywag Radio Podcast with Barnacle Brian is another offshoot from the online fanzine Shite ‘n’ Onions that regularly plays Roaring Jack and Alistair Hulett albums. http://thescallywagshow.libsyn.com Pure Brilliant Podcast is another US based station that has prominently featured Ally’s music over recent times. DJ Presenter Hugh Morrison is a Scot with excellent taste in all kinds of folk-based indie music and squeezebox player with the Texas band, Murder The Stout. www.purebrilliantpodcast.com
Along with the three ‘Official’ Alistair Hulett websites, the following distributors supply Alistair Hulett’s CDs by mail order. Check their sites to find the outlet nearest to your own location for ease of postage and currency conversion . Four Dogs Music (UK and WorldWide) www.fourdogsmusic.co.uk Footstompin’ Celtic Music (SCO) www.footstompin.com Musikfolk Limited (ENG) www.musikfolk.co.uk The Living Tradition (UK) www.folkmusic.net Shite ‘n’ Onions (USA) www.shitenonions.com AK Press (USA) www.akpress.org Jump Up Records (GER) www.jump-up.de People To People (GER) www.people-to-people.de Hamish Henderson Folk Club (IT) www.hhfolkclub.org
Music Shops that stock Alistair’s albums include Coda Music (SCO) no website. Tel 0131 622 7246 Folk Revolution (SCO) www.folkrevolution.co.uk Red Eye Records (AUS) www.redeye.com.au Marbecks Records (NZ) www.marbecks.co.nz
Links to musicians involved with Alistair Hulett:David Rovics from the USA is one of the most politically sharp and poetically gifted singer/songwriters around today. He and Alistair toured in the States together in 2006 and plan to do a double-header trip around the clubs and festivals of Australia in 2008. Check out his website at www.davidrovics.com and then return to the Promo Gallery here to download the Rovics/Hulett Tour Poster. Email a.hulett@btopenworld.com to book David and Alistair for 2008 in Oz. Phil Snell (mandolin) and Alistair Hulett (vox and guitar) will be working together as much as possible both as a duo and in an 'as yet to be finalised and monikered' 5 piece acoustic band. Rehearsals are well underway, the debut recording is imminent and duo or band bookings are now up for grabs via this website. In the meantime, please give Phil a Friendly Visit in his myspace site at www.myspace.com/philsnellmusic or on his regular home patch at www.philsnell.co.uk Swarb’s Lazarus is Dave Swarbrick’s new trio featuring Kevin Dempsey and Maartin Allcock along with the great man himself. www.swarbslazarus.com Nuemmes is a communist street band from Berlin that is guaranteed to liven up any left wing demo anywhere. Thanks for all the support during several tours over your way, lads. www.nuemmes.de Niamh Parsons along with her partner Graham Dunne form the Irish contingent of The Shamrock Thistle and Rose, featuring Alistair as resident thorn. Niamh has recorded three Hulett songs on her latest album. See Discography for details. www.niamhparsons.com Nancy Kerr & James Fagan are the other two members of the Shamrock Thistle and Rose show that you’ll find reviewed in the Articles and Interviews section of this site. They have also included one of Ally’s songs on their latest release, making it two covers they’ve recorded so far. www.kerrfagan.com Check the Links page on The Roaring Jack Archives for a whole host of other excellent stuff to click on and enjoy. www.roaringjack.com |
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