Folk & Horror Phenomena

Sheffield-based imaginarium for all things folk, horror and the shades in-between.

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Celluloid Screams 2024: (FF) Frankie Freako

“Fasten your freakbelts” Directed by Steven Kostanski (The Void, Psycho Goreman), we start the festival with a film whose tone and mayhem is deeply rooted in the puppet creature features of the 80’s and 90’s. Frankie Freako is a Canadian horror comedy with a considerable about of heart within it’s riotous and chaotic set pieces. […]

19th April 2024- Honey and the Bear at The Wesley Centre, Maltby

Next for us in Maltby at the Wesley Centre Live we see Honey and the Bear, a Suffolk folk duo who have ventured here for the first time with a sound more towards the indie folk, and a soundscape of music exploring the natural world. It is a nice addition as the weather starts to […]

15th March 2024- Megson at Wesley Centre, Maltby

After having multiple plans since we first got into folk music; the stars aligned in the sky and we finally had the opportunity to see Megson live (here at The Wesley Centre in Maltby). Warm and inviting, and pretty much firing on all cylinders since we last visited around Covid times, Nick Wilson’s curation of […]

Gravest Fears – Theatre Review- University of Sheffield (29 Oct 23)

A picture of Robert Lloyd Parry looking academically perplexed with a pipe his mouth in the spitting image of M R James

We are off to see Nunkie Productions (https://www.nunkie.co.uk/) touring show of “Gravest Fears” as part of their M R James Project, spreading ghost stories through the land; those wonderous things that thankfully don’t ever die. The show is in association with the Enable Us Project at the University of Sheffield (https://performancevenues.group.shef.ac.uk/enable-us/) which has been showing […]

Celluloid Screams: Film Shorts (20 Oct)

For a change of pace from folk music reviews we decided to attend the Celluloid Screams horror festival in Sheffield. We needed to get some horror on while the spirit of Halloween was just around the corner, albeit sadly just for a day. There were many films, it was delightful blur of memorable pictures. We […]

Live Review: Burd Ellen, Carusias Arise!, and Aeourth (5th October)

Bishops House Recently we got a chance to revisit Bishops House for a gig. Bishops House is a venue close to heart as this where I got married last year. This was not the Bishops House I remembered though. True the building is still intact, the old wood looking regal under the dark sky, but […]

Derby Folk Weekend – 1 October 2023

On the final day of the Derby Folk Weekend after being buoyed by the proceedings thus far, we come to the final run of acts. We have enjoyed the variety and the different flavours of the folk world, and the final day continued this trend. Old Spot (www.oldspotmusic.com) Having already skirted (or dipped in an […]