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Sadly Tin Giants are unable to perform at Folk Week this year, we are delighted to be joined by Goblin Band.
Goblin Band formed organically from intimate sessions of the same name ran out of the Hobgoblin Music, a folk music instrument shop in Central London, and organised by a group of queer folk obsessive friends and shop employees.
These sessions have given rise to a six- piece band which, though firmly rooted in the traditional music of the British Isles, draws widely on medieval and early music, as well as the folk musical traditions from abroad.
The sound concocted employs all manner of strings, squeezeboxes, hurdy gurdy, flutes, horns, bells and whistles. The Goblins interpret folk song in relation to the political upheavals of past and present and strive to make a space for new audiences to experience traditional music in a manner which is both riotously joyful and deeply sincere.
“Goblin Band have been summoning the fates, and Martin Carthy and Paul McCartney have already fallen under their spell.” Jon Wilks Tradfolk
“Their debut EP, an album-length, six-song showcase, mixes a twitchy, eager musicianship with rowdy flamboyance.” The Guardian
They can play and they can sing and they’re fearless… When I saw Goblin Band singing recently, I just thought, “Why didn’t I think of that?… They move stuff around… They go back to versions that we were too snotty to touch and they turn them into stomps.” Martin Carthy
