Kathryn Tickell

To receive your copy of The Darkening's "Hollowbone" before it's official release date (5th April) pre-order now from The Shop (where you can listen to a few tracks too). A review in the current fRoots magazine muses: "Well now... you’d imagine Kathryn Tickell had done it all in her long, illustrious career as Britain’s foremost Northumbrian piper... Ancient and modern, weird and wonderful rub shoulders throughout the entire album in constantly unexpected fashion; but Tickell’s dancing pipes are never far from the action to pull it all back when it threatens to get too dark and mystical... it lifts the heart and sets the pulses racing with rich fervour." Colin Irwin, fRoots.