A new album by Medway’s premier alt-folk outfit The Singing Loins!

A new album by Medway’s premier alt-folk outfit The Singing Loins! Yes indeed. We caught up with Rob Shepherd to find out more about their brilliant new LP Twelve…

The album has features newly recorded versions of several Loins classics. Was it a difficult decision deciding which back catalogue songs to record?

No, pretty easy – it’s basically the 12 songs we enjoy playing the most with the current lineup. Saying that, it’s been a bit of a meandering road getting to this point. Since Brod passed away, Arf & me have done few nights of Loins songs – and it’s felt good – celebrating the songs we all wrote together – so that started the selection process. Oli, Arf’s lad, joined us on percussion and then Rich, who Billy had introduced to us, joined on violin – then Chris came along to play the drums, so Oli switched to guitar – and through all that we were refi