Founded by artists Lally MacBeth & Matthew Shaw, Stone Club was set up as a place for stone enthusiasts to congregate, to muse and most importantly to stomp to ...
Today our guest is Einar Selvik, musician, singer and ethnomusicologist. Einar is the founder of the band Wardruna. We talk about ancient sites, nature, wild places, landscape and Einar's life growing up in Norway. We talk about music, poetry, archaeology, playing drums in metal bands and the beginnings and evolution of Wardruna up to the present day. We also discuss Wardruna's new album Birna.
From the deep woods now emerges Birna, Wardruna’s sixth studio album. Through his restless dialogue with nature, main composer Einar Selvik has been searching for the voice of the bear, resulting in this upcoming release, scheduled for January 2025.
Birna – the she-bear in Old Norse – is a work of art dedicated to the guardian of the forest, nature’s caretaker, and her battles here on earth. Slowly driven out of her habitat by modern day societies, she has entered a stage of permanent hibernation. As a result, the forest is gradually dying, longing for its pulse and heart – its shepherd. Birna calls for her return.
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Stone Club Walks and Talks with Hayden Thorpe
Today we talk with Hayden Thorpe about Orford Ness, about the power of place, about, nature, rewilding and the creation of Hayden's new lp Ness.
Hayden Thorpe is the Cumbrian solo artist, formerly of Wild Beasts. Using a process of redaction, Thorpe brings songs to life from the pages of best-selling author Robert Macfarlane’s book of the same name. Ness is inspired by Suffolk’s
Orford Ness, the former Ministry of Defence weapons development site during both World Wars and the Cold War. Acquired by the National Trust in 1993 and left to re-wild, it to this day remains a place of paradox, mystery and constant evolution.
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Stone Club Walks and Talks with Amy-Jane Beer & Lewis Winks
Today we talk with authors and activists Amy-Jane Beer and Lewis Winks on behalf of Right to Roam. We talk about a new report published today that is all about inaccesible ancient sites. We discuss access islands and the imortance of being able to walk freely in the coutryside. We discuss the Right to Roam movement, why it is important and how people can get involved. We talk about access to nature and the health benefits of being in nature, becoming closer to nature and being nature!
"Right to Roam" is a colloquial way of describing an ancient custom that gives anyone the freedom to wander in open countryside, whether the land is privately or publicly owned. In countries such as Norway, Sweden, Estonia and Scotland it has long existed as a common right, a defining concept of nationhood, and has only recently been codified into law.
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Stone Club Walks and Talks with Jackie Morris & Tamsin Abbott
In today's episode we talk with aritst and writer Jackie Morris & stained glass artist Tamsin Abbott. We discuss Jackie and Tamsin's forthcoming book Wild Folk: Tales from the Stones. We discuss the ancient sites and tales that make up the book as well as the process of how the book was created. We talk about art, imagination and nature and discuss some of the authors that have influenced Jackie and Tamsin.
WILD FOLK is a beautifully illustrated sequence of seven tales, marking the first book length collaboration between the storyteller artists, Tamsin Abbott and Jackie Morris.
Each of the seven tales are fables of transformation and power, summoned from the ancient stones beneath our feet and transformed by word and image into portals between past and future. The tales are neither new nor old. They are full of ‘wild folk’, shape-shifting spirits that carry the energy that connects all things.
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Stone Club Walks and Talks with Lally MacBeth
Today we feature Lally MacBeth, founder of The Folk Archive and Stone Club co-founder. We chat about The Folk Archive, Lally's Magazine The Folk Review and also about The Lost Folk, Lally's forthcoming debut book which is due to be published by Faber in June 2025. We discuss folk customs, folk music Krampus and a very large snowman.
Lally MacBeth is an artist, writer & curator based in Cornwall, England. Lally graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2013 with a First Class Honours in Fashion History & Theory, and has since divided her time between being sensible and silly. Her work wanders the line between the real and the imaginary, taking in history, folklore, performance, ritual, and artifice along the way. She is interested in the links between high and low cultural artefacts and how these lines are often blurred in archives.
Founded by artists Lally MacBeth & Matthew Shaw, Stone Club was set up as a place for stone enthusiasts to congregate, to muse and most importantly to stomp to stones.
In each episode Stone Club welcome guests to shed new perspectives on prehistory in a collaborative and inclusive way. We will take you on walks in the ancient landscape & have talks about Stone Club related themes.
Stone Club believes the journey is as important as the destination and encourages people to pause and think about place in new ways; connecting ancient sites through community and conversation.
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