Sometime this week (or next) is the third anniversary of something that none of us can quite remember and so like everyone else marking spurious occasions our record label is releasing a deluxe “immersive listening experience” box-set of our top 10 UK chart album Glamour In The Grey specially remixed by the ghost of Beatles producer George Martin.

We were completely convinced that this was uniquely the first time that a physical album had EVER been remixed by a non-physical being until somebody mentioned Phil Spector! ‘Sake!

Anyway, here are the details….

* Ten songs spread over 21 CD’s which includes the original album, a 24:7 surround sound version, the “Ghostly Remix” version, alternate versions of the songs when Findlay was hangry and away searching for food, the original demos of all the songs, the original demos of the demos of all the songs and copies of the original EEG printouts of the brain thoughts of each band member about each song before the demos of the demos of all the songs were made.

* Live recordings of all the songs from all the dates on our last tour each of which come with a unique song mixing software developed by our sound engineer Drew Coleman called “NO, I WON’T TURN THE DRUMS DOWN!!!” ™ and which you can use to customise your own live listening experience.

* Five two song 12″ singles in wearable coloured vinyl which can be moulded into lovely hats by simply leaving them out in the sun.

* A 512 page coffee table book which is packed full with a band bio, photos, lyric sheets, over 500 handy empty pages for taking notes or whatever, AND four attachable/detachable legs.

* PLUS each box-set is available in vegan AND gluten-free options!

We’re delighted to say that this will be available to buy (Patent Pending) for only £499 this Friday* and for every copy sold we will donate £10 towards “Stop The Wrendition” a charity aiming to build the worlds first safe space for wrens of which Nancy Kerr is an enthusiastic patron.

Or, like every other album ever made, you can just buy the bog-standard version if you haven’t got it yet from themagpiearc.com/shop

TMA xx

(*unless it’s not)

Our Martin Simpson and Findlay Napier are both releasing new albums very shortly and you can check out all their details at the links below…

Click here for Martin Simpson – Skydancers album

In a 50 year career this is being hailed as one of Martin’s best ever albums and you can see the video for the astounding title song that he wrote especially for nature presenter Chris Packham by clicking here

Click here for Findlay Napier – Outsider album and tour news

Anyone who saw us on tour will have heard the beautiful song that Findlay wrote for his young daughter, Call Me If You Need Me, and you can see the video of him “wild singing” it on a hill on Arran by clicking here

Band-wise as we head south to our late Friday afternoon slot at the Beautiful Days festival in Devon on the 16th of August we are playing at the legendary venue The Robin in Bilston between Wolverhampton and Birmingham on Thursday the 15th.

Tickets are on sale for that now and you can get ticket link with all the details at https://themagpiearc.com/live/

And there are special UK offers on all formats of our First Three EP’s and Glamour In The Grey albums as we go back to square one and start writing and recording for our next chapter in the Magpie Arc story so if you have a space to fill in your collection then now would be a good time to do it.

You can check these out at https://themagpiearc.company.site/

There is also a special offer on our 22-song Anthology download album of the combined EP’s and Glamour too.

You can check that out at https://themagpiearc.bandcamp.com/album/the-magpie-arc-anthology

Finally, thank you so much to everyone who came out to see us on our recent UK tour, we had an absolute blast and it was great to properly belt out the songs in some classic rock venues around the country!

Thank you as ever for your continued support everyone and see you soon.

TMA xx 🖤💜

We’re delighted to have been announced to play The Levellers excellent Beautiful Days festival in Devon on Friday the 16th of August and are making a stop en-route the day before to play a one-off gig at the classic rock venue The Robin in Bilston, near Wolverhampton on Friday the 15th. Tickets are available to buy for that now so click here for the information link…

The Magpie Arc at The Robin, Bilston – https://themagpiearc.com/live/

And today is Bandcamp Friday the day that they waive their revenue for all the artists who sell on there so it’s an excellent day for us if you buy as we get to keep 100% of the sales.

We’re on there, as are Martin Simpson, Nancy Kerr, Findlay Napier and many of our folk friends so do have a look and a listen and maybe you’ll discover something new to buy.

We have a small amount of our limited edition coloured vinyl copies of Glamour In The Grey in sea foam green with lyric insert and photos available today on special offer plus all our other music and also our “family album” sampler featuring our “nearest and dearest’s” all of whom just happen to be some of the best folk musicians in the country!

And finally there is also our “pay what you want” EP sampler on there that you can email gift to somebody that you love music with so why not spread The Magpie Arc word?!

Click here for further details – https://themagpiearc.bandcamp.com/

Thank you as ever for your support everyone and keep on folkin’

TMA xx

We had the absolute pleasure of hosting some fantastic artists and guests at our Indoor Festival of Folk at Cecil Sharp House a few weeks ago and now available to listen to is the superb interview by Matthew Bannister of the Folk On Foot podcast with UK folk/rock production legends Joe Boyd and John Wood.

Fascinating stories, insights and gossip on the genre, the time and the artists so grab yourself a coffee and click below to listen to some musical history!

Indoor Festival of Folk Interview with Joe Boyd and John Wood

And next years date is in for the 8th of Feb 2025 with more cracking guests in the pipeline so get that in your diary too and follow the festivals Facebook page below to hear all the news.

Indoor Festival of Folk Facebook page

We are so honoured to have helped make this happen!

TMA xx

We’ve had a fantastic first two weeks of touring and thank you so much to everyone who has come along and for your wonderful clapping, cheering, singing and arm-waving!

We are now heading to The Cast in Doncaster tomorrow and The Fire Station in Sunderland on Sunday, whilst next week sees us off to Goole, Bury and Leicester.

The Cast is the scene of our first ever gig in June 2022 and we can’t wait to play there again so if you were there for that one then do come and say hello!

It’s also been absolutely wonderful to see more and more young folks coming to gigs and hopefully that is being reflected amongst other folks bands too.

If we can ask one small favour though, there is absolutely nothing to beat word of mouth, whether it’s on social media or down the pub a recommendation is always welcome so it would be wonderful if you could use the following link and let a music loving friend know about The Magpie Arc.

The Magpie Arc EP Sampler – https://themagpiearc.bandcamp.com/album/the-magpie-arc-free-ep

This is a free/pay what you want download EP and if you can take a few seconds to share it round that would be wonderful. You can also send it by email as a gift!

Our remaining tour dates and tickets links are also available at – https://themagpiearc.com/live/ and we’ll hopefully see you out there somewhere.

TMA xx

Thank you so much to everyone who came along to our Indoor Festival of Folk 2024 at Cecil Sharp House on Saturday, it was an absolutely fantastic day with amazing music from all the artists and a fascinating and touching interview by Matthew Bannister with folk/rock and production legends Joe Boyd and John Wood.

We will be making the interview available online very soon as the demand to hear it from people who couldn’t attend has been immense.

AND we’re doing it all again next year! Plans are already afoot for another great indoor day of music in 2025 so do pencil the 8th of February at CSH in your diary and follow us here or on social media to find out who will be joining us. We have a VERY special target for the interview session and if we can pull this one off it will be rather tremendous indeed!

Thank you also to everyone who has joined us on tour at our first two gigs in Glasgow and Sevenoaks. Both sell-outs and both great nights playing to wonderful folk/rock-loving folks!

We are rolling on to Southport for the Love Folk Festival at the Atkinson on Friday, the Wiltshire Music Centre in Bradford on Avon on Saturday, the Phoenix Exeter on Sunday and tickets are flying so do get in there quick if you’re intending to come along.

You can check out all our tour dates here – https://themagpiearc.com/live/

And as ever our music is available to buy here – https://themagpiearc.com/shop/

Hopefully see you somewhere out there!

TMA xx

Thanks to everyone who has been in touch asking about bringing albums along to sign at our February tour, there seems to be a wee bit of hesitancy amongst folks about the etiquette of asking a band to sign something that they’ve already bought in the past rather than buying something new at the gig.

The short answer is……don’t think twice and bring along whatever you like!

Although the strangest thing we’ve had so far was when someone whipped out a Steeleye Span album and was a bit miffed that we weren’t them, so do make sure you get the right band before you leave home!

If you’d like to stock up first before the gig then you can find special offer deals on all CD’s/vinyl by clicking our shop here

And just a reminder that our dates are….

30th January – Oran Mor, Glasgow (support Katherine Priddy)
2nd February – Memorial Hall, Sevenoaks
3rd February – Indoor Festival of Folk, Cecil Sharp House, London
9th February – The Atkinson, Southport (support Frankie Archer)
10th February – Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford on Avon
11th February – Phoenix, Exeter
16th February – The Cast, Doncaster
18th February – The Fire Station, Sunderland
22nd February – Junction, Goole
24th February – The Met, Bury
25th February – The Musician, Leicester

For all info and ticket links just click themagpiearc.com/live

We’re firing up the amps and looking forward to seeing you soon so do get along if you can and also support venues and promoters by buying tickets early as much as you can.

TMA xx

Tour time is approaching and our first run of three gigs are a headline show at the world famous Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow, our own “one day, sit yourself down in a lovely warm venue with food, drink and facilities” festival at Cecil Sharp House in London and also a show in the wonderfully leafy Sevenoaks in Kent.

Our Celtic gig is at Oran Mor on the 30th of January and support will be from the superb Katherine Priddy, so an excellent evening of high quality music.

The Indoor Festival of Folk at CSH is on the 3rd of February with a fantastic line-up of folk artists throughout the day (including the great Tom Robinson) AND two absolutely genuine UK folk/rock legends of the 1960’s and 70’s in Joe Boyd and John Wood.

Joe and John are the men behind some of the bands and music that we all grew up with up from that time and they will be taking part in a rare interview and Q&A session with BBC broadcaster Matthew Bannister to talk about all things Fairport, Sandy, Fotheringay, Nick Drake, John Martyn, Richard and Linda, the Incredible String Band etc.

And the night before that on the 2nd of February we have an “Evening with The Magpie Arc” show at the Memorial Hall in Sevenoaks, which is us plus a first set from Martin Simpson, Nancy Kerr and Findlay Napier solo, so again a great value musical evening.

Can we just ask one small favour for all our gigs please? And this applies to all artists that you love and intend to go and see live in the future.

Can you please support the promoters that are behind every gig that you ever go and see (and their nerves and fingernails!) by buying tickets as far in advance as you possibly can?

Everybody knows it’s not easy in the current financial climate, we know that the folk world is already fantastically supportive of artists and that many of you are having to pick and choose who you go to see, but buying as early as possible once you’ve made the decision does ensure that the dedicated folks who organise these things can put on events with some confidence that there will be an audience.

Thank you everyone, sermon over, and we look forward to “folk/rocking” you in person soon.

The info and ticket links for all our upcoming gig dates are available to see at https://themagpiearc.com/live/

TMA xx

Thank you to everyone who has bought tickets for one of our tour gigs in February, we’re really looking forward to getting back out and playing live for you again.

We’ve had many people on asking the pertinent question of what exactly is our “An Evening With The Magpie Arc” show and so for those that haven’t seen us before and are thinking of coming along to one of our gigs here’s what happens…

As we have three award-winning solo artists in the band, each with their own audience, we thought that it would be a really nice and full evening for everybody if we supported ourselves so to speak, and so our show consists of a first set of Nancy Kerr, Martin Simpson and Findlay Napier playing a few solo songs each, then the band joining in for a couple of songs to round that off, then a break and then the band playing a full headline second set.

All in all that’s over two hours of music……..plus the inevitable rubbish banter!

Apologies if this is a bit of a dry message but with the many growing financial pressures on everyone there’s a school of thought that 2024 is going to be a very challenging year for live events and so it’s important for us to make sure that every ticket-buyer knows that they are going to get excellent value for money at one of our gigs.

You can see all our February tour dates at https://themagpiearc.com/live/ as well as our three festival dates, which are the unique Indoor Festival of Folk at Cecil Sharp House in London where we’ll be joined by a stellar cast of some of the UK’s finest folk musicians plus two folk/rock legends, Celtic Connections in Glasgow where we’re supported by Katherine Priddy and the “Love Folk” festival in Southport where we’ll be joined by Frankie Archer.

Hope to see you all out there, and just one final message…..

In support of all the lovely venues we’re playing, if you do intend to come along then it’s very, very helpful to them (and us) if you can buy tickets as early as possible in advance.

TMA xx