Hello MOOF readers,
Hope you are enjoying the last days of summer. We've got a busy Autumn approaching at MOOF Magazine!
Coming up on the 20th September at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre;
A Celebration of The Incredible String Band featuring Mike Heron and an introduction by Joe Boyd.
As part of the Southbank Centre’s Subterranean Festival, folk collective, record label and promoters Broadside Hacks have curated an evening that honours the incredible legacy of the Incredible String Band. At the heart of this tribute is a rare and treasured appearance from founding member Mike Heron, joining him is an inspired cast of artists including MOOF favourites Mark Fry, Daisy Rickman, Milkweed, and many others - all of whom carry the spirit of the ISB.
We were very happy to have been asked by Broadside Hacks to put together a limited edition programme for this wonderful event, The Half-Remarkable “Celebration of the ISB” Companion. Copies will be on sale at the Southbank Centre for the event, and if there's any left after we'll put them up on sale on our Greedbag store. More details about the event here: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/a-celebration-of-the-incredible-string-band/
Heading into October we are very happy to be collaborating with MOT Live to launch Rose Io's new album on Friday 10th October at Venue MOT in South Bermondsey, SE14 5RT.
MOOF Magazine x MOT Live Presents:
Rose Io Album Launch, Friday 10th October (7-10pm) Venue M.O.T
with special guests Vodka Terry + Amelia Blackwell
Rose Io:
Rose Io (Rose Eye Oh) is a Brighton based writer, musician and visual artist, and has been making whimsical, surreal and dreamlike creations for many years. After releasing singles ’Moon Milk’ and ‘Meathouse I’, Rose went into the studio with musician Ruby Taylor, AKA Yumi And The Weather, to co-produce her new album Autumn Automaton. Inspired by Syd Barrett, Ivor Cutler, William Blake, Arthur Lee, Captain Beefheart, and Svitlana Nianio to name a few, Rose continues to carve a refreshingly unique path in contemporary songwriting. Her songs allow the listener to be submerged in an alternate dimension. Birthed out of heartbreak, the process of making Autumn Automaton was the process of reanimating herself. Every word and note was a cog carefully positioned to restart her heart. In making this album, she was attempting to put herself back together. Rose created the music to reflect this theme, composing song that sounded clockwork and mechanical, and reminded her of wind-up toys, kaleidoscopic patterns and the hazy memories of childhood.
Vodka Terry:
Vodka Terry isn’t really a ladder salesman but a self taught jazz harpist called Alice with honest, dark comedy lyrics, dainty chin and massive tits.
Amelia Blackwell:
Sparkly raw intense and intimate alt folk from the MPTL Microplastics mandolin wielder and songcrafter. Blackwell released her debut solo single “Body Of Water” in June this year.
Tickets here
Later in the month we take over London's iconic 100 Club for an evening of avant-garde freak folk featuring Bishopskin, MPTL Microplastics and Sodden Pelt on Thursday 16th October.
Bishopskin is a London-based project celebrated for eccentric live performances and a genre-defying blend of English pastoral folk, punk,19th-century Romanticism, and mediaeval hymns. Known for weaving together disparate influences, Bishopskin has earned a reputation for creating music that captures both modernity and the essential, humming throb of music at the beginning of time.
Support comes from
MPTL Microplastics: 8 person industrial folk collective playing chronoplastic ballads of the future / folk music for a polymer people / stiob-eulogies arranged in the canon of the desecrated harp / crisis songs for the exploding (micro)plastic inevitable.
Sodden Pelt: Bog-trawl folk & Musket-ball ballads & the rabid dog of Shirley Collins.
Tickets here
You can listen to our last Soho Radio show here: https://sohoradio.com/show/moof-mag-16-08-2025/
I think that's it for now! Hope to see you at one of our upcoming events :)
Best wishes,
Melanie
moofmag.com