‘Good to see you again, folks!’ read the screens next to stage one on Thursday, the opening evening of 2019’s Cambridge Folk Festival; a not unfounded assumption that audiences return year after year. Thursday night has traditionally been a soft…
Since the release of his debut EP, Land of the Living, in 2013, Roo Panes has become something of a hot commodity in the realm of indie folk. Although the singer-songwriter himself is the first to espouse that he wishes…
Chances are if you’re reading this blog, you’ve heard of Roo Panes. We’re just niche and British enough to warrant it. Beyond that, though, if you do, it’s probably because this bloke has been pretty adept at producing earworms over…
Two years on from Little Giant, Dorset-based Roo Panes returns with his second full-length album Paperweights. Where Roo described his debut as being about “encouragement, about small revelations of great significance”, he says the themes of the new record are…
Music is a big part of my life, but there are some things that are obviously more important, family being one. It’s pretty impossible to sum up in a few words how they have shaped me as a person, but…
https://soundcloud.com/crcmusic/roo-panes-tiger-striped-sky-1 We’re excited to hear an album is on the way from Roo Panes, an artist we’ve been following for a little while now. If this single, ‘Tiger Striped Sky’, is anything to go by, it’s going to be one…
There’s something honest about Roo Panes’ music – he manages romanticism without melodrama, sincerity without sentimentality. Indeed Land of the Living’s opener, ‘Glory Days’, where a ukulele is strummed alongside bowed strings, serves as perfect image of what Panes has…
Hello, please introduce yourself and your music to the uninitiated. Hi, my name is Roo, and I guess my music is as good an introduction to me as I could hope to write. I would imagine my music would be described…
Perhaps being the most discrete and well-behaved festival we have ever attended, Bushstock nestles in cosily amongst London’s bustling Shepherds Bush Green and surrounding chicken shops, pubs and Greek falafell take-aways. In fact it is the reality of the loveliness…
There’s plenty could make folks a little wary of Roo Panes’ quick rise over the recent months. Half a million YouTube views is more than impressive, but then it was in large part fuelled by his link-up with a well-known…