Welcome!
A Walk Around Britain ran as a project from 2003 till 2011. Ed and Will are now both following different paths, and wish to thank everyone who helped them in their years of musical walking journeys, everyone who donated wisdom, shelter, food, songs, friendship, or shiny pennies.
Earlier this year they were inches from signing a record contract with Decca Records. In July this year they had a page in Vogue Magazine. But when the wind blows change, there's no path but to follow.
They enjoyed it all, and hope you did too.
They recommend a healthy dose of nomadism for every folk. There's few better ways to meet this land, and yourself as part of it.
And if the urge for a long footbound journey does enter your heart, please feel free to contact Ed or Will, and all the advice they can muster shall be yours...
Please walk more. Please sing more. The good old future awaits.
We look forward, and hope to see you there.
Cheerio for now.
Will and Ed, July 2011
From the archive...
- Walking to London
- At the end of February 2011, we walked to London from home near Faversham. We’ve always avoided such a walk, and skirted London as widely as possible, due to the M25′s percieved unfriendliness to our eyes and ears. The fastest road is no pal to the slowest walkers. And also, perhaps, we were a little [...]
- All our website music, here…
- This is all the music on the website, put in an easy to find place. We hope to make things easier for people interested mainly in the music we make. For us, the songs we sing are crucially aligned to our movement through landscape. The old songs, in their simplest conception, are creative responses of [...]
- All our website videos, here
- Hello. This post is a summary of all our videos made so far. Just in case you missed anything so far. We know the website can be tricky waters… On our next walk, of which we’ll speak soon, we’ll be focussing on video-making as a main method of sharing information. So we thought it a [...]
- The Art of Paul Cummings
- This is NOT about the well-established digital artist who works for Saatchi, called Paul Cummings. Find him everywhere elsewhere. We don’t know him. This post is all about another Paul Cummings, who we met in Avebury at midsummer last year. “You reckon that’s pacified your Gods? Cos it ain’t pacified mine”. Click to read more, [...]
- Felix Ford’s “A4074″ BBC Oxford Radio Show
- On boxing day, Felicity ‘Felix’ Ford had her thrilling radio show played on BBC Radio Oxford. It is a study in soundscape, social history, and the multi-layered reality of space. It looks at the many-parted understandings of the road, and land surrounding it, through the eyes and experiences of walkers, singers, motorcyclists, steam-waggoners, and many [...]
