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The Chair: Orkney monsters!

The home of folk and acoustic music on Radio 2 and BBC Sounds.

Bob Gibbon and Douglas Montgomery from Orkney party animals The Chair speak to Mark.

The home of folk and acoustic music on Radio 2 and BBC Sounds.

Bob Gibbon and Douglas Montgomery from Orkney party animals The Chair speak to Mark and offer an Orcadian perspective on life in Lockdown UK.

The 8-piece band ("not only quality, but quantity as well") combines some of Orkney's finest musicians.

Their new album, Orkney Monster, has just been released.

57 minutes

Last on

Wed 10 Feb 202121:00
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Bob Dylan

    As I Went Out One Morning

  • Grace Petrie

    Tom Paine's Bones

  • Katherine Priddy

    True Love Will Find You In The End

  • Cynefin

    Dole Teifi / Lliw'r Heulwen

  • The Chair

    Beachcombers

  • The Chair

    Shiver Me Timbers

  • Stan Rogers

    Barrett's Privateers

  • Kitty Macfarlane

    Half Wild

  • The Fureys & Davey Arthur

    Ned Walsh's / The Piper's Chair

  • The Men They Couldn’t Hang

    Dancing on the Pier

  • Chris Wood

    I Second That Emotion (Folk on Foot - Festival of Love 2021)

  • Leyla McCalla

    Me And My Baby

Broadcast

  • Wed 10 Feb 202121:00
    BBC Radio 2