Videos

What Will Become of England

Music video by Poor Creature (Ruth Clinton & Cormac Macdiarmada).

I found this song in the Alan Lomax Archive from a field recording of the great English singer & farmworker Harry Cox taken in 1953 at his home in Catfield, Norfolk

I Am a Youth That’s Inclined To Ramble

Designed by Ruth Clinton.

New collaboration with Cinder Well, working on traditional material. We released 2 new tracks early 2022. Working on themes of separation and cross - Atlantic repertoire’s.

Beneath the Willow (Music Video)

Directed by Jordan Carroll

The idea behind this music video was to portray the history and culture behind Sheffield and the surrounding region. Showcasing the industrial heritage, how people worked and lived, and conflict that arose through the years for working-class people like the ‘Battle of Orgeave’ and the Miner’s strike. The film also looks at the Peak District National Park and how workers in surrounding towns & cities fought for public access rights against rich landowners which lead to the ‘Kinder Mass Trespass’.

Lamentations of Round Oak Waters (Black Bay Studio live Session)

Filmed at the studio up in the Outer Hebrides, The song was inspired by the works & life of the late English poet John Clare and takes directly from a poem of his titled ‘Lamentations of Round Oak Waters’. The poem and his life were centred around a time of the Land Enclosure Act in England, where common land was enclosed and lower class farmworkers / labourers and their families were forced into poverty or imprisoned under trespassing laws.

Ah Cud Hew (Music Video)

Directed & Animated by Marry Waterson.

Ah Cud Hew is a song written by North East folk singer & songwriter Ed Pickford, a song from the narrative of an ex-miner suffering the effects of coal disease, a reflection of his working life, his family & the community he was connected to.