Reviews & News
Reviews
48/60 – St Mary’s Church, Fishguard Folk Festival – 25/5/24
We had a good night's kip in the caravan then had another band practice in the morning before a lunch of leftover pizza from last night. Then drove into town...
Ingenu/e Magazine – The Holloway
Milton Hide The Holloway Ingenue Magazine edition 40 Milton Hide are Sussex based Jim and Josie Tipler. On the album cover it states ‘To walk along a holloway...
The Holloway – Darren’s Music Blog
https://darrensmusicblog.com/2023/04/16/latest-folk-reviews-amelia-hogan-rura-milton-hide-joy-dunlop-and-megson/ Milton Hide – The Holloway Following their...
Fatea – The Holloway
Reviews FATEA Artist:Milton Hide Album: The Holloway Label: Long Way Home Music Tracks: 11 The difficult second album has been a cliché for almost as long as...
Liverpool Sound & Vision – The Holloway
Milton Hide: The Holloway. Album Review. Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * The temperature rose, the emotions were felt and left to simmer, and it is...
Get Ready To Rock! – The Holloway
Album review: MILTON HIDE – The Holloway Posted on January 29, 2023 by jason Website [Release date 31.03.23] Get Ready to Rock! Milton Hide (AKA husband and...
Folk Radio – The Holloway
Album Reviews Milton Hide – The Holloway written by Mike Davies 28 March, 2023 FOLK RADIO Milton Hide‘s ‘The Holloway‘ is named after a tree-tunnelled path in...
Folk London – The Holloway
Milton Hide - The Holloway FOLK LONDON Long Way Home Music LWHM017 The declared aim of this 11-track album is to “present these songs as if we’re performing...
Darren’s Music Blog
"…‘Temperature’s Rising’ will also help bring the duo’s unique talents as songwriters, singers and musicians to a much wider audience…" Hot on the heels of...
Folking.com – Temperature’s Rising
"…Temperature’s Rising should deservedly seem them greatly widening their fanbase horizons.…" The debut album by Wilmington, East Sussex acoustic duo Jim and...
The Living Tradition – Temperature’s Rising
"…The artwork and overall production of this CD is superb, especially considering the album was created during the trials and tribulations of ‘lockdown’! …" ...
FATEA – Temperature’s Rising
"… with its superior story-telling and well-crafted arrangements. This is one of the strongest debuts of the year so far…" Milton Hide emerged out of the...
Get Ready To Rock – Temperature’s Rising
"Milton Hide display many sides of their musical background, from the rock with prog leanings of the title track, through to ‘Riding The Whale’, a beautiful...
Spiral Earth – Temperature’s Rising
"There’s a touch of Fleetwood Mac in the title ‘Temperature’s Rising’ and ‘Making Progress’ makes good use of Josie’s fine voice in a song that reeks of...
News
We did it!
Photographs by Alex Thomas We set ourselves a challenge to do 60 gigs in our 60th year. Jo's birthday is in September, Jim's in October so we allowed a start...
60/60 – Jenny Lind, Hastings – 11/8/24
This was it - gig number 60 in the series. We'd shared it around on social media that this was our final gig in the challenge, and it was lovely to see some...
59/60 – Little Arts Festival, Rushlake Green – 8/8/24
This was a fabulous stage, great hall, bar, easy access and lovely organisers. All it was missing was the audience numbers that this little festival deserves....
58/60 – Bluebell Roots, 28/7/24
It was a scamper to get ready to leave for Bluebell Roots, having got back from Bridport at 4.30pm. But we know what a lovely evening we'll have every time so...
57/60 – Bridport Folk Festival, 27/7/24
We set off form our layby kip at about 8am, stopping en route for a fresh coffee and biscuit (£9!) and at Dorchester Jim popped into the music shop as it...
56/60 – Colindale Barnet Folk Club, 26/7/24
Ah, this was a lovely gig, We had played for the Colindale Folk Club on 2 previous occasions when it was at the Chandos Arms in Colindale, North London. It...
55/60 – Hailsham Library, Your Stories In Song – 18/7/24
We had no idea what to expect from this 'Your Stories in Song' gig, fully anticipating an empty library, but were pleasantly surprised. Three people had come...
54/60 – St Pancras Church, Arlington – 7/7/24
We were approached by a neighbour who was putting on a fundraiser concert (for local refugees) at our local church to ask if we'd be prepared to play a set....
53/60 – Bluebell Roots, 30/6/24
Bluebell Roots with The Browns. Jim arrived early at the Bluebell Farmhouse Kitchen to set up while I stayed at home to sort out our spare room as our son was...
52/60 – Pickhams, Your Stories In Song – 15/6/24
'Your Stories In Song' is a year long lottery funded project run by Summer Trifle and delivered by Milton Hide. Summer Trifle is a not for profit organisation...
51/60 – Dorking folk Club, 12/6/24
We managed to tie in my art demo with this gig, heading to West Meon the day before and camping overnight, then back up to Dorking Golf Club after lunch. A...
50/60 – Old oak Inn – Bungaroosh Fundraiser, 1/6/24
Kate and Paul at The Old Oak are really big supporters of Milton Hide. When we we put out our Bungaroosh fundraiser campaign email, Kate got in touch to say...
49/60 – Yacht Club Open Mic, Fishguard Folk Festival – 26/5/24
In the morning, after another good night's sleep in the caravan, we drove up for a flying visit to some friends living nearby. A quick downpour of rain but...
48/60 – St Mary’s Church, Fishguard Folk Festival – 25/5/24
We had a good night's kip in the caravan then had another band practice in the morning before a lunch of leftover pizza from last night. Then drove into town...
47/60 – Ffrwn, Fishguard Folk Festival – 24/5/24
We had two days at home after the Glossop gig before heading off to Wales ready for the Fishguard Folk Festival. We booked a campsite for the little caravan...
46/60 – Glossop Labour Club, 18/5/24
We left a day early so that we weren't playing immediately after a long drive. I was taking hay fever tablets as I had a persistent cough, blocked sinuses and...
45/60 – Sweeps Festival part 2
Part 2 - see 44/60 City Wall Stage Boley Hill Stage 5th May 2024 Jo was recovering from a long lasting chest infection and we even wondered if we were going...
44/60 – Sweeps Festival Part 1
We were delighted to be invited back to Rochester Sweeps again this year and were booked to play The City Wall (wine bar) Stage and Boley Hill Stage, which is...
43/60 – Bluebell Roots April
with special guest Johnny Campbell. 28th April 2024 at the Bluebell Kitchen. This session was pretty well attended with some regulars who hadn't been for a...
42/60 – ELF in Battle part 4
26 April 2024. Final part of ELF, Every Last Friday mini music marathon in Battle. A quick trot down the High Street the The Abbey Hotel. This was our final...
41/60 – ELF in Battle part 3
26 April 2024, Part 3 of ELF, Every Last Friday - music marathon in Battle. Venue 3 this time was Sarah's Cellar and the duo playing before us had obviously...
40/60 – ELF in Battle part 2
26th April 2024. On to the Bull for part 2 of ELF (every last Friday, the monthly mini music marathon in Battle). When we played here last time we were on a...
39/60 – ELF in Battle
25th APRIL 2024 We were back again at the monthly mini music marathon in Battle. This time we started at The Kings head (Ye Olde Kings Head) which wasn't too...
A summer of gigs coming up
We are very excited about all of our gigs this Summer. We have lots of festival and folk club bookings plus several 'Your Stories In Song' events. Find full...
Bungaroosh!
We'll be releasing our next album in Spring 2025, called Bungaroosh and YOU can help us get it off the ground. Over the next few days we'll release various...
38/60 – Royal Oak, Tunbridge Wells. 5/4/24
We're back again! See post number 2 in the series (https://www.miltonhide.com/2-60-the-royal-oak-tunbridge-wells-8-9-23/) . This time our mate Delby couldn't...
Competitions
We decided to enter four competitions this year - Talent Is Timeless; Purbeck Rising; Milkmaid Songwriters; pFite Talent is Timeless is a great initiative...
37/60 – Bluebell Roots with M G Boulter, 31 March 24
Yes, we were back in the Bluebell Kitchen again - 3 times in one month! This was the March Bluebell Roots event featuring a first half of floor spots and a...
36/60 – The Section, 17 March 24
We were pleased to be invited to play at this new event in Arlington organised by Bruce Knapp and friends. We've know Bruce for a while now, he's played on...
35/60 – Livestream from Arlington, 13 March 24
A Your Stories in Song event We hadn’t live-streamed for a while using Streamyard, something we did a lot during lockdown, so paid our mate and all round...
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