Brown Wimpenny - Long Live Brown Wimpenny - 1CD

Following early singles ‘Raglan Road’ and ‘Sheffield Grinder’ and early backing from CLASH, The Quietus, KLOF, Rough Trade, Americana UK and BBC Radio 2’s Folk Show, Brown Wimpenny’s announcement builds on a growing live reputation which has seen them open for folk legend Andy Irvine, record multiple sell-out shows in Manchester and London (including a headline at Hoxton Hall), and notch up festival appearances at Green Man, Fire in the Mountain, plus Cambridge, Sidmouth and Manchester folk festivals.

A collective who mine the transcendental collective power of traditional folk music, Brown Wimpenny, split between Manchester, London and Liverpool, are bringing communities together to celebrate that rich catalog of folk songs owned by no individual in particular bar humanity itself.

Taking their name from a distant 19th century relative of tenor banjoist Seth Lockwood’s, Brown Wimpenny began with informal get-together Sunday jam sessions in his Manchester living room. Growing as large as 25 members before being whittled down to its current number of 11, early gigs saw the band take up half the capacity of the room they were playing in, lyrics being passed around to attendees too, as part of a broader ideal of reducing the gap between audience and performer.

“We see the band as a shared social and creative endeavour.” explains Anna Korbel.  “We love the sense of the everyday and the normal, and rejoicing in the collective and communal. I think that's the key to our process and our ethos. We're not over-egging anything. We're just seeing it and playing as it is.”

Upcoming Live shows:

10 APR // London, Piehouse Co-op

1 MAY // Stroud, Neo Ancients festival

6 JUNE // Manchester, St. Margaret’s Church [Headline]

25 JULY // Lancashire, Seek Out festival

26 JULY // Birkenhead, Future Yard [Headline]

Brown Wimpenny are: Anna Korbal (vocals, mandolin, trumpet), Archie Barker (mandolin, vocals), Luke Morris (banjo, vocals, bodhran), Seth Lockwood, (tenor banjo, vocals), James Hawdale (drums, vocals), Rory Greig (guitar, vocals), Ted Downer-Wills (double bass, vocals), James Brown (accordion, vocals, musical saw), Ella Evans (flute, vocals), Chris Bright (violin, vocals), Jess Korbal (violin, vocals, euphonium), Flynn Mchardy (guitar, vocal), Arthur Bickers (violin, vocals, banjo)

More about Broadside Hacks Recordings:

A musical collective, independent live promoter and record label founded by Sorry-member Campbell Baum, Broadside Hacks have won widespread critical acclaim for bringing the folk tradition to new generations of audiences. Building on their regularly sold-out nights in London, shows with The Pogues, and stages at SXSW and Folk Alliance,  they are fresh from critically acclaimed live celebrations of The Incredible String Band and Mercury nominee Martin Carthy, earning praise from the likes of The Evening Standard, MOJO, UNCUT and The Times.

1. Gas Lights / Seanhamac Tube Station / Sailor’s Wife / Lovely Bann Water

2. The Sheffield Grinder / Black Joak

3. Old Molly Metcalfe

4. O’Keeffe’s / Farewell to Whalley Range

5. Raglan Road

6. I’m Often Drunk and I’m Seldom Sober / Kings of Kerry / Teddy Bear Jig

7. Jesus At Thy Command

8. Pratty Flowers (Holmfirth Anthem)