The latest edition of the UK folk magazine Living Tradition has an extensive interview with Jez, conducted late last year during the Pitman Poets tour. In it he talks about the Pitmen Poets, about his writing and lots of other things. It’s definitely worth checking out…The new Vin Garbutt tribute… Continue reading →

The 5 CD box set of Jez Lowe’s early albums, released by Fellside Records between 1980 and 1993, is due out this week. “The Jez Lowe Fellside Collection” features SIX albums on five discs, plus bonus tracks and rarities, in fact everything Jez has ever recorded for the label, all… Continue reading →

Jez Lowe and The Bad Pennies start their annula Christmas Tour – this year entitled “Ice Cold In Alnwick” – at Upwood Village Hall near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, on December 12th. Benny Graham is the special guest on the show, as usual. The tour ends on December 27th, with two shows,… Continue reading →

The mammoth Pitmen Poets tour comes to an end this weekend, with a finalperformance at Gateshead’s Sage on Tyneside. It’s not the end of the group however – they’ll be at The Great British Folk Festival in Skegness next weekend, and there’s already talk of appearances at festivals in the… Continue reading →

The Pitmen Poets tour of the UK – their final tour – is in full swing, and is causing quite a stir as it goes around the country. There’s a lot of old favourites as well as some new songs included in the show, and much of the high-jinx and… Continue reading →