"While You've Still Got It Out, Barry...."

Big thanks to everybody who made the Rattlebag Yule song session such a great evening. Pretty much all our regulars braved freezing weather to be there and we had some new faces (and voices) too. Drinks were drunk, mince pies were scoffed and the atmosphere was really rather special.
Special thanks must go to Barry Dransfield who played and sang so beautifully that we didn't really let him stop. Absolutely brilliant.

Christmas Song Session!

Our next "Rattlin' Good Sing" at the Stag in Hastings' All Saints Street will be on Thursday the 16th of December. We'll begin at the earlier time of 8.30. The theme is, of course, Seasonal Songs.

Please come to sing and listen, everybody's welcome.

A Reminder

Just to let you know once again that the link to the online CD shop is now...

http://www.chipperfieldjones.co.uk/shop.asp

..so please ignore any other older links that you might be tempted to use.

Thanks!

PS You do realise what a perfect Christmas gift a Rattlebag CD would make, don't you?

We Bring You A King With A Head Of Gold

....is the title of Cold Spring's follow up to the award winning Folk compilation "John Barleycorn Reborn" . Subtitled "Dark Britannica II" this new double CD represents 34 tracks and 146 minutes of music from what they describe as "the best of current British Folk artists". Do they mean us? I think they do!

Go here to take a first look....

http://www.coldspring.co.uk/discography/csr100cd.php

Three of the songs on the album (including ours, folks) are linked to mp3 samples so you can have a quick listen before you buy!

"We Bring You A King With A Head of Gold" is available from November 29th. Just in time for Yule!

Another Rattling Good Singaround!

The Rattlebag singaround always takes place on the third Thursday of the month at our second home: The back bar at the Stag in All Saints Street, Hastings.
This means that the next one will be on Thursday October the 21st. We hope to see you all there: Bring a song or two or just bring yourself and have drink and a listen. It's always a good laugh. We'll start around nine.

Shop Update (new link)

As you know, the new Rattlebag CD is now being sold at the Angles/Climax Ceilidh Band/Meridian shop.

The shop has a new link and here it is...

www.chipperfieldjones.co.uk/shop/


Get in there and buy some stuff. Hurry. Christmas will be here almost as soon as you've read this link.

Rattlebag featured on new Cold Spring Collection.

Three years ago Cold Spring Records released the compilation, "John Barleycorn Reborn". Described as a collection of "Dark Britannica", this was a fascinating double CD set that included a wide range of music from acoustic to folk rock to the electronica and avant garde pieces more often associated with the label.

This combination of traditional and newly written material was a fantastic listen and critically well received. Now the same label has completed work on the follow up double CD collection, "We Bring You A King With A Head Of Gold". Rattlebag's song "The Tyburn Sisters" - a retelling of the old murder ballad "Two Sisters" given a psychogeographical twist and hot-wired into a traditional Swedish folk tune - is featured on this new collection. As far as we know, the CDs go into production this week. Watch this space.

Meanwhile, check out Cold Spring....

http://www.coldspring.co.uk/

It's a terrific label with a wide range of good music on offer, from the traditional to the dark and rather more hair raising. We've also added the label to the list of interesting links to stuff we like on the right of this page. Have a look!