Seth Lakeman | Folk review

Hard Rock Cafe, ManchesterSeth Lakeman has managed to sell folk to people who buy four CDs a year from the supermarket by creating the musical equivalent of the bodice-ripping blockbuster. The fiddle-playing top 10 star is a dark, brooding presence, something like Heathcliff played by Oliver Tobias. His songs – derived from ancient Dartmoor tales – are full of white knights embracing passionate servants, and romantic tragedies acted out on desolate moorlands, often involving a busty maiden.L...

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