It's been three weeks since Alasdair Roberts released The Fiery Margin - if you haven't taken the time to listen to this "profoundly moving" album (The Guardian's words, not ours!), what's with you? Locate your inner moth and and succumb to the flame, matey! Ali's music is soulful and deep, steeped in tradition, literature and scripture, even - with words immemorial dating back from this world all the way to the olde one. How better to help us understand the new-world weirdness in which we're all regularly walking around?

But that's not hardly to give the musicians their due. So make it out to the show, would you? As the year's page turns to October, Alasdair and Friends (Stevie Jones, Alex Neilson and Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh) are together scaling Fiery Margins from one margin of the UK to the other, with a few solo Ali shows thrown in for good measure. We know you folks are exhausted by your political dilemmas - it sounds familiar, come to think! Anyway, do what's best for yuir savage soul, and get tickets for these shows now, OK? You'll feel better on the morrow -

TOUR DATES:

10/4/19 KROCH Stockholm Sweden *
10/17/19 Blue Arrow Glasgow United Kingdom ^
10/18/19 Futtle Bowhouse, St. Monans United Kingdom *
10/19/19 Sneaky Pete's Edinburgh United Kingdom ^
10/20/19 Gosforth Civic Theatre Newcastle-Upon-Tyne United Kingdom ^
10/21/19 The Talleyrand Manchester United Kingdom ^
10/22/19 The Golden Lion Todmorden United Kingdom ^
10/23/19 Colston Hall Bristol United Kingdom ^
10/24/19 St. John on Bethnal Green London United Kingdom ^
10/25/19 The Rose Hill Brighton United Kingdom *
10/26/19 The HUBS Sheffield United Kingdom *
10/27/19 High Forest Community Centre Sinderhope United Kingdom *

*SOLO
^Quartet with Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh, Alex Neilson and Stevie Jones