The Brothers Gillespie

This week we loaded up the old blue van with musical instruments and hit the southward road for our first festival gig since the pandemic hit and changed all our worlds. So it was that after a long drive through…

Deep snow upon the land and mist flooding the valley. Mountain summits revealed for an instant, islands in a dense white sea. Then they vanish. 

Clear cold skies, darkness on the eastern horizon and silken clouds that linger in the…

Once more blessed Autumn scatters gold among the leaves and Samhain draws near. Far off memories live again in the body, the town moor in Newcastle at life’s dawn, dusk light on the red brick walls of the back lane…

On a day of soft light with Imbolc not long passed there is a stirring of Spring in the air and the heart begins to dream of roving. 

Though it’s a fraught time in which it seems that the broken…

The year so far has brought several offerings to us. We are a few weeks back form playing at Sidmouth Folk Festival, an amazing convergence of folk music, dance and culture on the barmy South Devon coast. It was a…

Thanks to the support of everyone who helped with our crowdfunder we were able to finish creating 'The Fell' and launch it with a concert at Hexham's Queen's Hall which was for us a hugely enjoyable night. We have had…

Autumn is here with its rains and mists and sudden goldenings in the trees. Life brings unexpected challenges and the earth turns into its colder side. Our album held by the spinning fell under the stars comes closer to its…

We are in the midst of recording an album, of songs we have been carrying with us for a little while. When walking through Wall village, after a wedding party on the village green a couple of weeks ago we…