Dean McPhee with support from Dbh Dean McPhee is a UK-based guitarist whose work draws on dub, British folk, underground electronic music, and psychedelic rock, evolving from sparse, echo-laden solo guitar pieces into a heavier, more ...

Incoming at Bishops' House, Sheffield
Dean McPhee
With support from dbh
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North Americans can order this from Feeding Tube:

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working on new music & building 2 tours! see you around the UK next week and North America in May/June
Come to a show if you can! ❤️
www.penelopetrappes.com/live
#witchsky #pagan #music #heals

'pareltje'
- nice review of the latest lp by @pefkin.bsky.social is up at new folk sounds

www.newfolksounds.nl/pefkin-unfur...

(and the repress of the lp is in stock now!)

I've a busy few weeks of gigs coming up in various guises, starting next week with a wee support for two incredible artists - Chris Joynes and Dominic Lash. Both have joined forces as Soapsuds and they will be playing two solo and a duo set. I'll be on first playing a half hour set.

Updated: Lidders August UK tour with expanded lineup of @chtctr.bsky.social voc, @pefkin.bsky.social viola, Drew Gardner gtr, Aaron Dooley bass, Scott Verrastro drums, + me.
Ticket links at linktr.ee/jerkfree
NEW record on @riotseasonrecords.bsky.social and Feeding Tube @byroncoley.bsky.social

Sat 18th April: SHEFFIELD
Soapsuds / C Joynes / Dom Lash / Pefkin

An outing for Soapsuds, the new 'not-jazz' duo from @domlash.bsky.social and myself, at Bishops House. Solo sets from both of us, plus an improvised set from the ever-essential @pefkin.bsky.social. Tix here: wegottickets.com/f/16405

No Knock No Doorbell, by worriedaboutsatan 10 track album

Seem to have given myself a fairly bad cold in celebration of having a new album out, so if anyone wanted to make me feel better, you can always go buy a copy...! Only 7 CDs left now btw, still some tapes kicking about as well: worriedaboutsatan.bandcamp.com/album/no-kno...

@crushingdeathcb.bsky.social hosting us in Cambridge UK Aug 4th 🚀🚀🚀
Props for one of the best write ups I’ve seen in a long time

Sunday at Bishops' House, Meersbrook Park, Sheffield

End March in style with dark folk storytelling in a Tudor House.

Unfurling, by Pefkin 6 track album

pefkin.bandcamp.com/album/unfurl...

Second pressing of my album on @morctapes has arrived!
I've popped some more up on Bandcamp but will have some available at forthcoming gigs.
28th March - New Folk Festival, Slaithwaite (Burd Ellen)
18th April - Bishops' House, Sheffield
9th May - Warp and Weft festival
14th June - Ambient Leeds

A blurred image of a decomposing daffodil on a dark background held by a thumb to the right. In black across the daffodil are the words corpus tenebras Lux/sic : body map for vibrato On a yellow strip above the words clare archibald are written, and on a yellow strip below are the words Six Foot Gallery, Glasgow, 31st March- 21st April, 2026

I have a new installation as part of Offerings, at Six Foot in Glasgow, running from 31st March until 21st April. Opening night Tuesday 31st 7-9pm.

corpus tenebras lux/sic : body map for vibrato is a multimedia installation exploring chronic illness, creative acts and connection, time, and archive

OPVS NOVUM: A Requiem Reworked, by Penelope Trappes 10 track album

Honoured to share : Arriving on May 29th, ‘Opvs Novum: A Requiem Reworked’ :
a carefully chosen circle of kindred spirits to dismantle ‘A Requiem’.
@olirecords.bsky.social
❤️🖤🤍
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worriedaboutsatan - No Knock No Doorbell Buy NO KNOCK NO DOORBELL by WORRIEDABOUTSATAN. CD £8.99. Order online today and get FREE UK delivery on orders over £75.

The new album is available on @normanrecords.com too btw, just in case you're doing some shopping on here: www.normanrecords.com/records/2141...

The Repository #9: Black Forest/Black Sea Revisiting an interview from 2004 as the duo release a new CD full of rarities from 2003-2008. I remember first hearing Black Forest/Black Sea nearly 20 years ago and being immediately smitten. The…

Miriam and I were interviewed in @foxydigitalis.bsky.social 22 years ago and it was reposted 5 years ago: foxydigitalis.zone/2021/04/04/t...

Very excited to be part of the Heavy Lidders touring mayhem in August with my viola and pedals!

Earth Studies Field Trip #1: The Heartwood Institute - Plague Dogs. Out on 20th April.

We're gonna Lidderin' with Bobby Lee in Sheffield this Summer ! @chtctr.bsky.social will vocalize ! @pefkin.bsky.social will be bowing strings ! We'll have BRAND NEW LPs out this Summer on @riotseasonrecords.bsky.social !

Sheffield tickets: www.skiddle.com/whats-on/She...

Listen: Classic Folk Classic Folk with Mike Norris Classic Folk is unique. It mines a rich seam of wonderful folk and roots music and song from around 75 years of recordings. From the great source singers to the legends o...

This week's episode of Classic Folk includes songs by:
Davy Graham
Blozabella
@magpielane-oxford.bsky.social
Patakus
Burd Ellen @pefkin.bsky.social
The Fraser Sisters - Playing a Trad Night at Cecil Sharp House on Wed 1 April

And many more!
www.efdss.org/listen

Check out my article about the latest two live records by Jeffrey Alexander & The Heavy Lidders, Live at Tubby’s and British Lidderin’ - May 2025. Fans of all things kosmische and psychedelic should not sleep on these albums! recordcratesunited.com/2026/02/26/l... @lidders.bsky.social

Electronic Sound – Reviews (Issue 119) So, there’s this lost cat. Following the story so far? Good, because that’s about as straightforward as things get. For five years, shadowy lunar electrician Ian Hodgson has pursued said AWOL felin…

More of my @electronicsound.bsky.social reviews, fresh on the Haunted Generation website. Hello @moonwiringclub.bsky.social, @pefkin.bsky.social, @repeatedviewing.bsky.social, The Green Child, Bell Monks, @waysideandwoodland.bsky.social and John MOuse...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2026/02/24/e...

A-Sun Amissa & Lauren Mason plus support from Leopard Hunters In Water Scores, Lauren Mason’s dark and experimental poetics respond to A-Sun Amissa’s tide-like currents of guitar, synth, sampled hydrophone, loops, and clarinet. This long-form piece ranges throug...

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Next gig at Bishops' House
28th Feb
A-Sun Amissa & Lauren Mason
with support from Leopard Hunters
Come, be fully immersed

My Breath The Sea, by Pefkin from the album Unfurling

For spooky tales of Irish saints ...
pefkin.bandcamp.com/track/my-bre...

Lovely to get a mention in Jude Roger's Folk Album of the Week column in the Guardian.

black_ops returns to @campradio.bsky.social tomorrow
6pm uk - 7pm cet

Thank you!

"I’m definitely more involved in a community than I’ve ever been.”

An interview with @pefkin.bsky.social's Gayle Brogan.

'Unfurling' is out now via @morctapes.bsky.social.

sun-13.com/2026/02/10/p...

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