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Stick in the Wheel on the Road to Epping Forest
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Length:
43 minutes
Released:
Feb 14, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Stick in the Wheel’s music has been described as “precision folk with anger, lust and blood.” The band’s founders Nicola Kearey and Ian Carter take Matthew Bannister for a walk through their East London stomping grounds, starting in a Victorian weaver’s house in Spitalfields, taking in Walthamstow Market and ending up in Epping Forest where they’re joined by fiddle player Ellie Wilson. Along the way they sing songs that reflect the chequered history of the East End of London.
Released:
Feb 14, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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