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It’s Burns Nicht, and to celebrate we are making our version of Rabbie’s “Ae Fond Kiss” available as a “pay what you want” download with every penny of proceeds going to the Royal Society For The Protection of Birds, a cause very dear to the band. You can have it for free, pay as muchContinue reading “Pay What You Want Burns Nicht Single!”

Thank you to all our international fans for your patience with deliveries of CD’s and albums. Two weeks ago the Royal Mail had to suspend all international deliveries until further notice due to a massive cyber attack, which on top of the backlog from strike action in November and December has meant extreme delays withContinue reading “CD and Vinyl Orders”

Thank you to all the new subscribers and social media followers who have joined us since our Mark Radcliffe live session on BBC Radio 2 last week. If you didn’t hear it at the time you can catch up with it any time over the next few weeks at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001gg87 Folk/Rock supergroup indeed!!! 🙂 AContinue reading “Welcome To All New Subscribers and Followers!”

Happy Wassailing Day Everyone! Today is the official reissue release day for the CD, 10″ coloured vinyl and download multi-packs of our The First Three EP’s collection. If you’re still to catch up on our first music releases then these were three 4-track EP’s that we released individually over the strange year that was 2020Continue reading “It’s The First Three EP’s Multi-Pack Reissue Day!”

With all the UK mail upheaval and us now being past the last posting day for Christmas you can still buy music downloads as gifts on Bandcamp and send them via email. Just go to our Bandcamp site here where you can buy the new album Glamour In the Grey and The First Three EP’sContinue reading “Missed The Last Christmas Post?!”

Why not make it a folk/rock Christmas? Today is the last UK ordering day for all The Magpie Arc music and merchandise for Christmas delivery so if you’d like to order a copy of new album Glamour in the Grey on CD or 12″ vinyl or order our First Three EP’s bundle on CD andContinue reading “Last day For Christmas Orders!”

We are absolutely over the moon at the announcement that our new album Glamour In the Grey entered the Official UK Folk Album Chart at Number 9 so “thank you” to everyone who bought a copy and helped put us there!  For anyone still to get it you can hear preview song All I PlantedContinue reading “We’re In The Official UK Charts!”

It’s the last Bandcamp Friday before Christmas and it’s an excellent time to support artists who sell on it and buy directly from them as the site waives it’s revenue and so we all make a little bit more money from sales. We’re there, as are band-members Martin Simpson, Nancy Kerr and Findlay Napier plusContinue reading “Christmas Bandcamp Friday”

Tomorrow is the final counting day for the UK Official Folk Chart and we’ve had a whisper that we’re in there, so if you were thinking of buying our new album Glamour In The Grey then now would be a very good time to do so and help us get nearer to Number 1. YouContinue reading “In The UK Charts and Christmas Gig With Maddy Prior!”

Thank you so much to everyone who has bought our new album Glamour In the Grey since sales opened last month, it has made it into the Top 50 of the Official UK Independent Album Chart on it’s first week of release at Number 42! What a lovely sight this is – https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/independent-albums-chart/ On topContinue reading “Glamour In The Grey In The Official UK Album Charts!”