Well, all our gigs have been cancelled for the foreseeable future, so what is there for us to do but take the opportunity to release a Young’uns Podcast. It’s Saint Patrick’s day, but the pubs are closed, so let’s celebrate … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

This week we’re in Manchester with Jennifer Reid, singer of 19th century Industrial Revolution broadside ballads and Lancashire dialect work song. She’ll be doing some of that for us on this week’s podcast, as well as recounting her experience on … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

This week, Michael is a man of action; David is abused by Australians; there’s an anecdote regarding Mike Harding’s genitals. Gary Hammond of The Hut People and formally The Beautiful South returns to showcase another of his exotic percussion instruments. … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

The Young’uns Podcast returns for a new weekly run, as we catchup on the backlog of Young’uns gig clips. In the spirit of Halloween there’s a graveyard-based anecdote, some spectral voices, and a bit of blood. Also, we have a … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

We return to Suffolk’s Folk East Festival for another live podcast. Join us in a packed marquee as we host an hour of music, chat, games and a mix of spontaneous and semi-planned features with Philip Henry and Hannah Martin … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

Join The Young’uns with top UK banjo player Dan Walsh live from 2018’s Young’uns weekend in Suffolk. Music, chat and spontaneously generated “features.” David gets a banjo lesson, Dan creates an improvised song and tells stories of surreal gig experiences, plus there’s a brief appearance from Shaggy.…

To bastardise Band Aid: the greatest gift you’ll get this year’s online. It’s the Christmas 2018 Young’uns Podcast, festooned with festive fun from our 2016 We Three Sings Christmas tour. Play along with The Young’uns Christmas quiz, trying to guess … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

Given that it’s World Book Day, and we happen to have written a book, this seems like the perfect excuse to be mercenary and remind you that you can part with your money in exchange for a selection of stories all about The Young’uns. The book features tales of our various adventures, and insights into the songs we sing. In this brief instalment of …

We receive a lot of feedback on The Young’uns Podcast, and one comment that keeps coming around time and time again is: “this folk music stuff is all very well and good, but, when are you going to talk about … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

In this edition of The Young’uns Podcast, presented to you from a sleigh in freezing Western Canada, we feature music, mirth and meanderings with Bob Fox, recorded at our 2016 Singing Weekend in Beverley. Bob divulges stories about his time … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

This week’s guests are Quicksilver, comprising Grant Baynham, a regular contributor on BBC One’s That’s Life with Esther Rantzen in the 80s, and Hilary Spencer from the vocal harmony trio Artisan. As well as playing live for us, They share anecdotes of post-gig accommodation traumas, Grant talks about writing comedy songs for radio and his time on …

This week’s guests are BBC Radio 2 Folk Award nominated duo Gilmore & Roberts.Katriona Gilmore introduces us to her talking micropig. Herbal tea Of The Week makes a return. We rant about satnavs and kettles. And we discuss odd gig experiences.

This week’s Young’uns podcast features highlights from our 2016 Australian tour. We receive some rather unusual heckles. We nearly become major Australian reality TV stars. We are thrown into panic due to a case of mistaken identity. We’ve an Australian themed game for you to try your hand at. Find out what caused one female audience member to lodg…

The Young’uns Podcast returns to the Folk East festival in Suffolk. There’s music, chat and games with Dan Walsh, Will Pound, Eddy Jay. Pete Flood is best known for his percussion skills, being the drummer in Bellowhead, but he’s also … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

The Young’uns Podcast returns to Sheffield, to the Antiques shop Rileys & Co, for music, conversation and games with Sheffield’s Melrose Quartet. There’s another epic Space Attack battle, play along with our new game, Song charades, we discuss dreams, and … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

This week’s Young’uns Podcastt features our 2016 adventures in Canada. Take a soak with us in a hot tub; come with us as we embark on a perilous boat ride. Kiss a dog, or kiss lots of dogs, so long … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

The wait is finally at an end. The Young’uns podcast is back for another series. Over the course of the next few weeks we’ll take you with us to Canada, Belgium, Australia, and all around the UK. We’ll be playing you some of the more interesting bits that happened between the songs at our gigs. We’ll be chatting with and hearing music from lots of …

The Young’uns Podcast is back! Our first podcast of 2016 comes live from the Folk East Festival in Suffolk, where we are joined by an enthusiastic audience, guests John Spiers, O’hooley & Tidow, and Sam Kelly. As well as songs and tunes, we play a game of Jenga, have a competition to see who can do the best impression of the characters from the chi…

It’s the last Young’uns Podcast of the year, and the last in the current series until April 2016. So, in this podcast we are clearing out all our old stock, I.E. the remaining gig clips that are still lurking on the computer that have yet to be played, It’s very much the bargain basement equivalent of a podcast, but in a good way, hopefully. David …

Hark, hark, good news, the Christmas Young’uns Podcast is here! Lots of music and clips from our Christmas tour, a Christmas quiz in which we ask you to identify the TV sitcom from the Young’uns’ musical clues. And we invade a train with 300 of our friends to sing Christmas songs, led by the folk group Scuppered.…

This Young’uns Podcast episode is dedicated to Jake, a fourteen-year-old boy who wrote us a lovely long letter about how wonderful we are; he’s clearly going to go places. Today we meet the man who’s step son was nearly killed … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

This week’s Young’uns Podcast is dedicated to the man at our gig in Honiton who rebuked us for being too much of a miserable band. David meets a child magician, Sean is lost for words, Maz O’Connor is feeling flummoxed, … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

Confusion reigns in this week’s Young’uns Podcast. David is accosted by an overly-familiar lady, and accidentally gets hitched. The Unthanks feature in The Young’uns RoadShow live from Somerset, and Artisan share an anecdote about accents. The Young’uns are depicted as cyclopses in a woman’s fantasy, we are grilled by an infant tabloid journalist, …

We head back to Bamfest in Bedale, which won The Young’uns award for the drunkest and most raucous audience of 2014, and, as you’ll hear in this week’s podcast, they haven’t at all mellowed, in fact, at one point an … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

Last week, Manchester United manager Louis Van Gaal sat next to us on a plane to Portugal. This week our paths cross with Jeremy Kyle, who was recording his show opposite the BBC Radio 3 studio in which we were … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

So far this year we’ve taken you with us to America, Canada and France, and this week we’re off to Portugal, to the Costa del Folk Festival. Hear clips from our first ever aquatic gig, as we perform in the … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

We talk to a man in a pub about beetle shit, David has a confession to make about behaving inappropriately on a bus, and the Birthday Game is back, only with a twist. All that and lots more on this edition of The Young’uns Podcast.

From Canada we headed straight to France, where we performed after fifteen hours traveling and thirty hours without sleep. This week, David attempts some french standup comedy, but gets his GCSE french a bit mixed up and inadvertently makes what might have appeared to be a pro-nazi declaration, and accidentally but frequently makes references to ge…

This Canadian edition of the Young’uns Podcast contains a law breaking parrot, child-eating pagans and Bare-Breasted Motorcyclists, plus the Polish vocal quartet North Capedo an acapella version of the Game Of Thrones TV theme.Von David Eagle

Things aren’t going too well for the Queen at the moment, what with last week’s Nazi Salute revelation, and even more upsettingly for her was the fact that last month she narrowly missed a Young’uns gig. This week we impart … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

This week’s Young’uns Podcast is dedicated to the lady who nearly got sacked for listening to the Young’uns Podcast at work. She’s also started having strange David Eagle dreams. This week, Michael and David go head-to-head in the Birthday Game. The writer Mathew Crampton joins us for our first Herbal Tea of the Week, and in addition to helping us …

This week’s Young’uns Podcast is dedicated to the heckler who shouted out mid-gig to tell us to stop talking so much. Obviously this man lacks the cerebral capacity to comprehend the truly intellectual nature of our between-song-chats, the content of … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

Michael is insulted by an audience member in Morecambe, while David nearly kicks an audience member in Leeds. We put the fun into funeral. Sean imparts another of his dreams, involving Greg Russell and ice cream, but don’t worry, it’s not that kind of dream. And the award for most heckles in one gig goes to the grove folk club in Leeds.…

Since the last Young’uns podcast, we’ve won a series of awards including best group at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, meaning that I think we can now safely proclaim that the Young’uns Podcast is an award winning podcast; in fact, it’s the best folk podcast in the world ever! This week: everything you never needed to know about David’s little finger;…

After his success with beatboxing last week, this week David attempts to play the trumpet, instructed by The Unthanks’ trumpet player, Victoria Rule. She also introduces us to her sister’s dog who does an uncannily good trumpet impersonation. Last week, … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

This week’s Young’uns Podcast is presented backstage at the Unthanks tour, for which we are providing support. There’s music and chat with 2014’s BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winners Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin, who talk about their music, their … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

We’re on a mission to make the Young’uns Podcast a lot more sexy. Michael goes for a haircut, but gets a little bit more than he bargains for. Sean and David discuss adopting a child together. And we’re back in … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

This week The Young’uns present BBC radio 2 Folk Award nominees Josienne clarke and Ben Walker live from a hotel bedroom in Kansas City. They play us a couple of songs and chat about their music, dreams, neurosis, children’s TV, … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

David has a dalliance with a lady of the night. But this does not alleviate his feelings of loneliness and emptiness, and so he desperately seeks companionship in a musical instrument repair shop. Michael underestimates the strength of the beer … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

This week: Sean has a bit of a thing for The Fisherman’s Friends, while David is spotted holding hands with Sam Pirt from the Hut People; we once again delve into the mind’s of the Young’uns as we divulge another … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

We have a bone to pick with Eliza Carthy. Find out the true identity of the Young’uns; our darkest secrets are revealed by a palm reader. We play a couple of examples of Young’uns anecdotes gone wrong. We play clips … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

Happy new year! 2014 has been an incredible year for us, one of the highlights being our very own folk festival, on Hartlepool’s Headland. On the eleventh Podcast of Christmas we bring you music and chat from the festival, from … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

Today is our worst Podcast of Christmas so far; not in terms of quality (which conforms to the usual exceptional standard), but because of the fact that we’ll be discussing our worst and second worst gigs in our folk career … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

In addition to another Sean Cooney dream (this time set in cold war Russia), we enter the minds of Jim Causley, and Ciaran Algar. The Young’uns provide a plentiful supply of toilet humour. Michael Hughes is a penguin beater. Music … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

Our top-class journalists will do whatever it takes (whether that be hacking computers or breaking into houses) to bring you the stories from the world of folk music that matter. Today, we unearth the truth about folk singer, fiddle player, photographer and model Elly Lucas. Sam Pirt from the Hut People dispenses pineapple facts. The Young’uns have…

More Young’uns dreams, involving Mike Harding and a slightly erotic scene between two Young’uns. Curiosity might be what kills a cat, but the Young’uns seemingly have the power to make cats throw up. Young’uns Podcast brings you the latest folk … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

There’s music from Bob Fox, Sunjay Brayne, and a collaboration with the Young’uns and Sam Carter. Sean Cooney takes us to a post-apocalyptic folk festival, David Eagle stars in the TV game show Countdown, and does Michael Hughes have a … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

Yesterday we brought you a dancing sheep, today it’s dancing hamsters. Mike Waterson and some dancing hamsters are today’s star attraction. There’s also an appearance from a triplet of BBC Radio Two presenters. Bob Harris flaunts his backside to protect himself against the hand of the law, and Mike Harding and Mark Radcliffe have a fight. Hiphop ar…

David Eagle attempts to create the world’s most cheaply and cynically produced football anthem. He also provides an unusual chat-up line for blind people, and causes confusion in the National Portrait Gallery. And there’s a boat load of wale puns, … Continue reading →Von David Eagle

Our third Podcast of Christmas contains a lazy cow, a dancing sheep, some unusual comments from fans and music from the Spooky Men’s Chorale.Von David Eagle