Wed 26 Sep – Alasdair Roberts
Gig details at Gathered in Amber blog

Thu 15 Dec – Alasdair Roberts

Some brief notes on this show at gathered in amber blog

Sun 23 Oct – Archive Trails
Here's my review. Excerpt:

Galoshins is a half-hour piece, with Shane doing most of the puppetry for the three characters: admiral, Galoshins, and the doctor charged with reviving dead Galoshins. Alasdair was narrator and conversant with the doctor. There was some incidental music, a rendition of Hamish Henderson’s Flyting O’ Life and Daith (I can’t remember who was life and who was death, but you can place your bets), some percussive swordplay by Shane, rhythmic broom sweeping by Ali, and squelchy drone from an old analogue synth. A white butterfly went AWOL, and it…

Wed 4 May – Alasdair Roberts

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Tue 3 May – Alasdair Roberts

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Sun 24 Oct – Marginalised: Songs Of Love And Loss, Alasdair Roberts

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Fri 17 Sep – Alasdair Roberts, Emily Portman

(Cross-posted from Gathered in Amber)

My first Alasdair show for nearly six months — I haven’t had a drought so long for a couple of years. The setting couldn’t have been more different from the last one. It was my first time at Kings Place, more like a conservatory space than the rowdy Deptford Arms folk club. I’d heard the acoustics were good, and Emily Portman sounded fantastic. The sound was so clear I imagine it would make everyone sound like they’re on ECM, and thus maybe not so ideal for Alasdair.…

Fri 11 Dec – Alasdair Roberts, Oh Ruin
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I've seen Alasdair Roberts quite a few times over the past six months, and very glad that I have, as he seems to be on a bit of a roll at the moment. Almost every gig has one or two new songs – and the quality is invariably high. Here's a list of those new songs that I've heard live

What Cares the Crow for the Plaint of Lapwing?
The Haruspex of Paradox
Scandal and Trance
The Boy of Blazing Brow
The Loudness Wars
Song Composed in December
The Laverick and the Blackthorn
The Hidden Sin (title?)
The Untrue Womb…

Sat 27 Mar – Kit & Cutter

Alasdair Roberts' gigs have been reliably revelatory over the last six months: always some new diversion from the well-trodden path, usually in the shape of another fantastic new song, but this time also including a little short story rap about the "ochster pack" (ochster being celtic for armpit), a highly apocryphal account of the first use of St John's Wort to treat depression.

The Cruel Mother*
Medley: Further Along*/St Columba's Ochster Pack/Riddle Me This
Farewell Sorrow (first lines sung in German)
The Laverick and the Blackthorn
The Demon Lover*
Song…