Folk in a Box

Ladies and gentlemen, their is a hiatus of excitement down at folk in a box HQ. The brand new state of the art, world class, knock your socks off  Folk in a Box is almost finished. It’s being put together by artisan carpenters Aldworth James and Bond in their workshop in Greenwhich. They are doing incredible work. The new box will be a one on one masterpiece. Here’s a very sneaky peak behind the scenes with the whole tam, including the wonderful architects who designed the whole thing – Cristina Monteiro and David Knight.

Ladies and gentlemen, the brand new, state of the art new folk in a box is going into construction this week! It has been designed by architects David Knight and Cristina Monteiro and is being built by artisan carpenters. It’s going to be spectacular. We are very, very, very EXCITED! We will be showing off our brand new box in London and Stroud in January. We’llkeep you posted on that one…..Oh, and the new box is going to double up as a WHISKEY BAR!

On November 3rd, Folk in a Box will be back in London at dialogue festival, a four day festival of conversation and the spoken word. We can’t wait! We will be involved in an event called Technobable.

This night will challenge a selection of comedy’s finest to rant and muse on technical jargon, take part in a live tweet-off and tell us what they really think of technology past and present. Hosted by Richard Herring and showcasing the talents of Aisle 16 and Josie Long.

Folk in a Box will be hosting a different kind of performance than usual, something mystical, mysterious, but we’re not going to tell you anymore than that, it’s a secret!

Tickets are available here.

Over the winter months, members of Folk in a box have been writing, recording, releasing and promoting our exciting individual projects.

First up, is the fantastic Emily Barker, with her brand new album, ‘Almanac’, which is released  on Monday 7th February!

‘Almanac’ is the third studio album by Anglo-Australian quartet Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo. The album weaves a compelling musical tapestry balancing contemporary influences with classic, folk-rooted songwriting.

In this almanac appear stories of love, renewal, the importance of community and our relationship to the earth. Shadowing these lighter themes are darker truths of untold atrocities committed by settlers on indigenous Australians during colonisation (Bones), the mass hysteria regarding a Scottish witch-hunt (Witch of Pittenweem) and good old-fashioned heartbreak.

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Folk in a Box member and BAFTA award winning songwriter Emily Barker was interviewed inside the box by our good friend Ben Eschmade for the fantastic Arctic Circle Radio on resonance FM. Here’s the podcast.

Folk In A Box (Arctic Circle Radio) by Arctic Circle Radio

We were distraught when we discovered that our two fantastic boxes had disappeared from our lock up. What a shocker. Especially as we had a gig in a week’s time at the Southbank Centre for  National Poetry Day, with poets from throughout the land performing in the box!

But we all came together and sorted it out. We made a brand new box and it is a corker! We covered the box in pages from old books and made the room into a little study, with a wooden desk, an 80′s tape player and a reading lamp. A horde of strange and lovely poets gathered around us like highly articulate bumble bees. They read their poems to eager poetry lovers and all went swimmingly. Everyone got a bit over excited when Simon Armitage went in the box and we even had a monstrous paparazzi beast taking snaps of our souped up shed of Folk! What a fantastic day.

Well good gracious, we had queues round the block, people blooming love it!! Our dodgy little box looked fantastic next to the epic architecture of Tate Britain. Here’s badman Adeel setting up. Thanks to all who got the special treatment! Thanks to the incredible Arctic Circle for having us.

Tate in a Box