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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!”

The Magpie Arc will be playing a hometown Christmas gig on Thursday the 15th of December at Firth Hall, Sheffield with support from Nancy Kerr and James Fagan plus very special guest, the legendary Maddy Prior from Steeleye Span. Tickets and further information are available now from https://performancevenues.group.shef.ac.uk/event/the-magpie-arc/ so come and join us for someContinue reading “Sheffield Christmas Gig with Kerr/Fagan and Maddy Prior!”

Glamour In The Grey – International Orders Are Now Open!!! Thank you to all of our overseas fans for your patience whilst we sorted out the International sales channel for our new Glamour In The Grey album. That is now done and you can order it on CD or 12″ Vinyl from Bandcamp worldwide rightContinue reading “Glamour In The Grey – Now Available Worldwide”

Glamour In The Grey is out tomorrow and as it’s Bandcamp Friday, which is the day that they waive all their revenue from artists who use the platform for sales, if you are still planning to buy the digital download then it would be fantastic for us if you could hold off until morning andContinue reading “New Album Out Tomorrow!”

It’s new album release week and our first full-length album Glamour In The Grey is out this Friday the 4th of November. We have Nancy Kerr folk/rock belters with “just the right amount of Black Sabbath” according to one reviewer, plus a wonderful version of the wintry Mike Waterson song Jack Frost, our “The Band’esque”Continue reading “New Album Release Week!”