"Raise the sails and face the storms, when everything else fails they'll return to port" These are just a few of the unique lyrics on Edd Lanes recently released EP - The Sailors Escape. Coming from the Westcountry (UK) this is a rare gem in terms of it being a genuinely easy to listen to piece of contemporary folk. For many people the entire genre of folk in all its forms is thought of as a specialist genr ...

More and more each day, I am being shocked. Holdupnow has officially gone international! It's astounding that a blog of this size has even been noticed here in the UK, never mind by various places across the world. This is one case in which social media has succeeded. Some of the countries that holdupnow has been viewed by include: Australia, Iceland, the Philippines and the US among others. The fact that t ...