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Performances
Sunday, 19th January 2025
ALBUM LAUNCH! the Ultimate Collection
at
Folk in the Barn Afternoon 3pm
The Tea Cosy Sessions
The Barn, The Street,
Kingston,
Nr Canterbury,
Kent CT4 6JB
Contact :Debs Earl, 07799 790738
www.folkinthebarn.co.uk debs@folkinthebarn.co.uk
https://folk-in-the-barn.webflow.io/gigs/anthony-john-clarke
Saturday, 25th January 2025
Coal Aston Live,
Eckington Road,
Coal Aston,
Derbyshire
S18 3AX
Contact Petegray@scuppered.org
Pete : 07860752471
Saturday, 1st March 2025
with John Watterson/ Fake Thackray
Barnoldwick Music & Arts Centre
18 - 22 Rainhall Road
Barnoldswick
BB18 5AF
Pete Barton, Manager
T 01282 813 374
M 07712 628 366
Tuesday, 4th March 2025 with Dave Pegg
Wrecking Ball Records and Books Venue
15 Whitefriargate,
Hull
HU1 2ER
01482 214 941
https://wreckingballstore.co.uk
Wednesday 5th March 2025 with Dave Pegg
CAST Theatre, the Second Space,
Doncaster
Box Office: 01302 303 959
website: castindoncaster.com
Thursday, 6th March 2025 with Dave Pegg
Cubley Hall Hotel,
Penistone,
S36 9DF
John Willis: 07939 148 603
£15 adv, £20 on the door. £50 (Discount Group ticket for 4)
Friday, 7th March 2025. with Dave Pegg
Black Dyke Mills,
Unit 27 Brighouse Rd,
Queensbury,
Bradford
BD13 1QA
Tel: 07920 122735
Sunday, 9th March 2025 with Dave Pegg
Anthony John Clarke and Julia Porter
Christ the King
Liverpool
L16 6AW
Contact: Lesley Scholes 07762 360 591
15th- 17th March 2025
Private event
Wednesday, 19th March, 2025
Banbury Folk Club
The Three Pigeons,
Southam Rd,
Banbury.
OX16 2ED
Contact: Ian Ralph Huckin 07484 674 882
Wednesday, 26th March, 2025
Nova Scotia Folk Club
Woodhill Evangelical Church,
30 Wester Cleddens Rd,
Bishopbriggs,
Glasgow
G64 2NH
Thursday, 27th March, 2025
Crail Folk Club
Community Hall,
St Andrews Road,
Crail.
KY10 3UH
enquiries 01333 450572
Sunday, 4th May 2025 afternoon
Garden Concert
St Albans
Saturday 10th May 2025
Ludlow Castle Festival
16th/17th May 2024
Isle of Wight
Thursday, 29th May 2025
Sunderland Folk Club
Blue Bell Pub,
Fulwell Rd,
Roker,
Sunderland
SR6 9AD
Patricia Haswell:
13th-15th June, 2025
Middlewich Festival
Saturday, 21st June, 2025
Private event
Saturday, 28th June 2025
Private event
Saturday, 19th July, 2025
Folk on the Farm,
Tyddyn Mon,
Brynrefail,
Dulas
LL70 9PQ
ANGELSEY
Contact :01248 410580
folkonthefarm@live.com
Saturday, 26th/Sunday 27th July 2025
Herne Bay Festival
Ray Fielder:
Monday, 28th July 2025 tbc
Chichester
1st/2nd/3rd August 2025 tbc
Chickenstock Festival,
Stockbury,
Pett Rd,
Sittingbourne
Kent
ME9, UK
Contact : 01622 884114
07830 626234
7th - 9th August, 2025
Cropredy MC
10th - 17th August 2025
AJ MC, and performing 11th or 12th
Broadstairs Folk week MC
https://broadstairsfolkweek.org.uk
Friday 12th September 2025
Swinton Folk Club,
White Lion
242 Worsley Road,
Swinton M27 4TS
Sue & Ged Todd - 01942 811527
Friday 17th October 2025
Folk Club
The Potteries
Saturday 18th October, 2025
Rowington,
Staffordshire
Friday, 7th November 2025
Poppleton
Sunday, 9th November 2025. with Dave Pegg, and with The Churchfitters
Birmingham Conservatoire
Thursday, 18th December 2025
Fleetwood Folk Club
The Strawberry Gardens
Poulton Road,
Fleetwood
FY7 62F
Tony Winstanley - 07925 839934
Friday, 27th February 2026
Bingham Folk Club
Bingham Rugby Club Pavilion Brendon Grove
Nottingham
NG13 8TN
Contact 07879226427 / 07867922785
binghamfolkclub@gmail.com
24th July- 1st Aug 2026
Costa del Folk
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Reviews
Review in TYKES, by Nigel Schofield
Peggy and AJ tour together each November. This collection of ten songs is a summation of seven years of doing so. AJ has a keen eye for observation, a sharp wit for writing and a knack for turning phrases, evident in titles that make you wonder “what on earth could that be like? viz Routine Love, Irishman In Paris and Let Me Tell You How It Works.This is not a reproduction of their stripped-back, seated live sound – aside from mandolin, Peggy plays electric and bass guitar; La Belle Julia Porter, who co-wrote the songs, adds piano and strings; Adrian Black provides entirely apt clarinet and Mark Walker plays chimes. The songs benefit from these added dimensions. Try the full-on rock sound of Until the Wall Comes Down or Life’s got its own agenda, a song that could only otherwise exist if Jake Thackery had been transplanted to Basin Street! There are songs that make you smile, songs to make you think and songs for which the only reaction is “yes – exactly”. How can you resist a line like “I lost my religion in a poker game”? The songs are all direct and involve you immediately, but the craft in writing, subtlety of narrative and deftness of observation all reward repeated listens. Even after one listen, those skilfully coined phrases will leap into your head – and you’ll thrash around to recall where it’s from…and when you remember, this album ends up in CD player: it’s an endlessly repeating cycle. Earworms that never get earworn.
'AJC is a National Treasure' (Fairport Convention)
A little book what I wrote. it's not 'Great Expectations' of course and is unlikely to be made into a movie - for regular cinemas anyway - but it means well. It's a collection of observations about Ireland, music, children, religion and marriage served by a Belfast boy on a scurrilous bed of material I have used I stage over the years and somehow got away with... until now.dare.
Hard back now sold out
it's now available,
thanks to MARTIN WALKER's valuable help,
via Amazon (£7.86)