Colston Hall Presents at The Folk House - An evening with Roddy Woomble, John McCusker & Friends -

Award winning folk musician John McCusker and Idlewild front man Roddy Woomble present a unique evening of music, performing the classic folk record 'Before The Ruin' on it's 10th anniversary, and other songs from their vast & varied repertoires. 

Since it's release 'Before The Ruin' has gone on to become one of those rare things - a word of mouth success, admired and loved by those who know it, and a slow burning contemporary Scottish folk classic. Poetic, melodic and atmospheric, and featuring contributions from Radiohead’s Philip Selway, Norman Blake and Francis MacDonald from Teenage Fanclub and Donald Shaw from Capercaillie, there is an unruffled, hand-woven synchronicity to ‘Before The Ruin.

As the BBC said at the time ....’Taking traditional folk as a starting point, they add in splashes of CSNY, pastoral Zeppelin and Radiohead, to make something that, in this world of transient pop daisies, is resolutely made of long lasting oak. Before The Ruin is an important work, crammed with deft, sweet touches’.

John and Roddy will be ably joined by Louis Abbott (Admiral Fallow) and Sorren Maclean.