Moving to Patreon

The first thing I was ever paid to write was an article on Japanese indie music for Virgin's in-store magazine, in 2002. Since then it's been articles, interviews, photographs, songs, podcasts – some of it published, most of it not, all of it scattered across hard drives and folders with names like "USE THIS ONE." I've put it in one place. It's called the Jon Wilks Archive, and it's on Patreon.

There are three tiers.

Reading Room, £4 a month. Interviews, articles, photos and research notes from almost thirty years of folk music writing, in one place for the first time. New posts a day or two before they go public.

New Acquisitions, £8 a month. Everything in Reading Room, plus new demos and rough cuts as I make them, guitar tutorials, and every episode of the podcast.

Special Collections, £15 a month. Everything above, plus the stuff that doesn't happen on a schedule – archival footage and audio with people I've toured and played with, the odd live session recorded just for this tier, and, once they're cleared to share, my research notes from Les Cousins.

All three come with a seven-day free trial.

What's up there already: the first interview I ever did with anyone of real note, which was with Yoko Ono; a couple of posts on Strange Heavens, the song collection I'm building with Rich Lines, inspired by Stanley Spencer's Sandham Memorial Chapel paintings; and the full first series of The Old Songs Podcast, with Nick Hart, Jim Moray and Angeline Morrison among the guests. The Barry McGuigan photography and the rest of the articles, going back to that Virgin piece, are still going up.

If any of that's been worth your time over the years, the Patreon archive is where I'll be putting the rest of it.