Tim Carroll of Folkwords has interviewed the Folk Police! If you'd like to read more about the thinking behind the label and our plans for the coming year, just click on this link (look for "Interviews" in the contents list on the right hand side of the page). Whilst you're over there, have a poke around - there are some great interviews, loads of reviews, comment, opinion and so on - and Tim has a knowledgeable yet open minded approach to folk music in all its dizzying permutations. You might also stumble upon the cracking review he's given to Elle Osborne's Good Grief e.p. whilst you're rooting around.

So all that remains is for The Folk Police to wish you all a wonderful Yule and hope you have the chance to warm your frozen bodies as you dance your way around a suitably macabre wicker effigy. And a quick but heartfelt thank you to all the Folk Police artists; those singers and musicians and backroom boys 'n' girls who have contributed their time and creativity so generously to the  Oak, Ash & Thorn and Woodbine and Ivy Band albums; to Michael Doward, Gary Parkinson, Raymond Greenoaken, Steven Collins, David Owen and most especially to Sophie Parkes and Pete Philipson for all their help and support in 2010; to those adventurous souls who have already bought a copy of Elle's e.p. and to anyone we've missed out!
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Good Grief, the new e.p. by Elle Osborne will be in the shops on 24th January. This is Elle's first release for Folk Police Recordings and new first new release under her own name since her debut album Testimony back in 2000. This is a collection of self-penned songs, drawing on Elle's grounding in traditional music. The title is literal: Good Grief draws attention to good times disguised as hard times, progress disguised as destruction and the relief of survival, though Elle will smilingly tell you that this "all sounds rather melodramatic". Pre-release copies of Good Grief are now available from the Folk Police shop. The e.p. will be followed by a full length album of traditional songs, Slowly, Slowly Got She Up, in the Spring of 2011, featuring contributions from Alasdair Roberts, Alex Neilson and Cath and Phil Tyler.

‘Whilst these haunting songs channel the spirits of both Lal Waterson and of Nico, they still manage to capture the unique flavour of Elle's sound’ – Alex Neilson, Trembling Bells
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