Lankum by Ellius Grace
Lankum’s new album is out on Friday.
Lankum have shared their latest False Lankum preview ahead of its release on March 24th.
“We learned this song from Seán Fitzgerald of The Deadlians, whose mother Pauline sang it to him as a child,” they’ve said of Newcastle.
The tune was first published in ‘The English Dancing Master’ (1651) where it is simply entitled ‘Newcastle’, while the words may be related to a broadside ballad printed in 1620 and entitled ‘The contented Couckould, Or a pleasant new Songe of a New-Castle man whose wife being gon from him, shewing how he came to London to her, & when he found her carried her backe againe to New-Castle Towne.
The band are on tour around Europe for much of the spring and will return to London for a date at the Roundhouse in December.
