The Singing Loins started as a stripped-down acoustic duo in 1990/91, ‘Authentic Raw Folk from the Medway Delta’.

The Singing Loins started as a stripped-down acoustic duo in 1990/91, with the aim of writing honest, bare songs, outside of any particular style, coining the phrase ‘Authentic Raw Folk from the Medway Delta’. Their first two albums were recorded with Billy Childish and released on his Hangman Records.

Twelve years, and five or six albums later, they added banjo/mandolin/accordion, and hooked up with Damaged Goods Records and released another four or five records (depends who’s counting).

With a huge fanbase in both Medway and Serbia, but pretty much unknown elsewhere, and plenty of acclaimed shows both home and abroad later, they called it a day in 2013, returning briefly in 2019 to record what turned out to be their swansong, ’13 Moon Songs from Merry Hell’.

The group’s singer, Chris Broderick, sadly