Ryan Fox Music

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Big thanks to @dorner_martina for including my new song on her playlist 🫶

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Lovely review of my new album The Ashford Affair by @seanbwparker - big thanks Sean 🙏

Ryan Fox - The Ashford Affair It’s fair to say that Kentish singer-songwriter Ryan Fox sounds somewhat unlucky in love. The Ashford Affair - named we presume after Fox’s town of residence - might as well be his Blood On The Tracks, Bob Dylan’s eviscerating heartbreak album I first came across Fox on social media, as is increasingly the way of all things, in 2022, shortly after I was released from prison. I had spent four and a half years inside, released halfway through my sentence as per the current policy, and when Fox heard about why I was maintaining innocence, he wrote the sublime Allegation. The post-#MeToo nature of this wonderful song attracted a good deal of derision from the parts of social media where young(er) ‘liberal’ women congregate, but Fox proved he was able to deflect the harassment, and stand by his art There are not many artists whose covers beat the originals, but to my ears Fox’s version of Sam Fender’s Will We Talk, released some time before The Ashford Affair, surpasses the original in its purity and desperation for relationships to have more depth. Sinead O Connor ramping up the minimalist desolation in Prince’s Nothing Compares 2 U springs to mind The Ashford Affair is a somewhat cracked mirror of the current division between the sexes, delivered in Fox’s plaintive, Robert Wyatt-esque style. Fox’s songs are consistently catchy; the pain on the inside, with a shimmering smile nonetheless. He also has a compulsion to genre-hop, which when the tunes are so effortless, is a lively and fun way to play A highpoint on The Ashford Affair for me is You and Your Bit, Fox snarky about an ex who has seemingly ‘moved on’, reminiscent of Joe Jackson or even Paul McCartney in a bad mood. I Can’t Make You Stay is excellent, like The Beautiful South-go-country, but far more fun than that sounds. Thanks Be To Jack is a wry ode to friendship, and I suspect Jack’s surname might be ‘Daniels’ (but I could be wrong) The album opens with Devil In A Black Dress, lyrically self-explanatory, but riffing off Billy Idol or even Suicide in tone and treatment, a propulsive dirge about the scales falling from infatuated eyes. Tears In The Mirror is terribly sad, like Billy Bragg’s golden years; The Letter and Canterbury Kiss on similar lost love lines. But there is always a silver lining with Ryan Fox, and closer Meet Somebody Tonight is such a proper 80s-style floor-filler I can almost smell the hairspray and Lynx though my laptop screen Music has ever been a cathartic way to process the pain of lost love, or even devotion, and @Thinker_Fox is a low-fi, pure and honest master of it

Nice girls are nice, but bad girls are something else. I want it bad, their bad romance. They’ll make you suffer, but you can’t deny you want them more for it. #badgirls #gothgirl #neofolk #devilwoman #joydivisionfans

“I am the puppet master No one can ever know That I am the puppet master And I run the show”

One doesn't want to believe in crazy conspiracy theories, until it becomes inescapably evident the Zionist billionaires run the country.

Nice girls are nice, but bad girls are something else. I want it bad, their bad romance. New goth neofolk song out today. #badgirls #gothgirl #neofolk #devilwoman #joydivisionfans

Gay love is like any other love. Footballers just want to be adored. Sadly there are many who feel unable to be open about their sexuality in the men’s game particularly. We should do our bit to challenge these views. #gaylove #footballculture #gayfootballer #inclusionmatters

RT @seanbwparker: Ryan Fox recorded this song, Allegation, about my case after he heard about it around 2022 He got a lot of Insta-abuse over it, but stood true to his art, and I'll be forever grateful #IamJohn @Thinker_Fox @EmpowerInnocent @KingOfHits @Blueblur_23

Any writers fancy reviewing my new concept breakup album? #musicjournalism

RT @Tracking_Power: ANTI-ZIONISM PROTECTED BY UK LAW We have set a binding legal precedent! Anti-Zionism is now a protected philosophical belief under the Equality Act 2010. Full stop. The Employment Appeal Tribunal finally handed down its judgment this morning. The University of Bristol’s attempt to overturn my 2024 Employment Tribunal victory has been comprehensively dismissed. We won on every single count. This is a public humiliation for the genocidal Zionist regime, whose assets in Britain bullied the University into sacking me and then dragged them into this futile appeal. Their legal strategy has collapsed. Their pressure campaign has spectacularly backfired. Thanks to everyone who believed in me and supported me. This is a victory for the whole anti-Zionist movement. A full statement will follow shortly. From the River to the Sea Palestine will be free! 🇵🇸 #DismantleZionism

RT @andyburnham: Let me say this very directly. Football does not belong to investors. It belongs to the people who fill the stands and who stand on the touchline week in, week out, rain or shine. The World Cup is not a product. It is the greatest competition in world sport, and it was never anyone's to sell. Dress the deal up however you like. Once you have sold a piece of it, you have sold out. Football belongs to the fans. It always has, and it always will.

A deep dive into the meaning behind my recent song celebrating the shared musical heritage in the Western hemisphere: Atlantic Echoes. Atlantic Echoes - Meaning Behind the Lyrics | Ryan Fox Music #folkmusic #folksinger #rootsmusic #rootsfolk #rootsrock

Mishappenings - It All Went Downhill (Official Video) via @YouTube The Mish is back with more urban chaotic genius storytelling 👌

Ask me anything LIVE!!! Q&A session. Includes my favourite song, musical influences, my favourite beers, CPFC exploits, exclusive preview of my new concept breakup album and more!! #ryanfoxmusic #kentindie #folksinger Ask me anything LIVE! Q&A session

RT @ZackPolanski: Reform, Labour and the Tories all take money from oil & gas giants and private healthcare interests. That tells you who they’re really working for. The Green Party doesn’t take that money. We answer to you - and to the future of our planet. Vote Green on Thursday. 💚

RT @ZackPolanski: Reform took a £5m donation and they're trying to distract you. Farage is just another establishment stooge. Like in Gorton & Denton - the only way to stop Reform on Thursday - Vote Green.

RT @ZackPolanski: The verdict is in. 🗳️ Gary like so many people is voting Green. 💚

Who should you vote for in the elections this week?

Lovely words from @seanbwparker on my new song celebrating our shared transatlantic musical heritage. I even had to look up one of his adjectives. Hats off to the better writer in the room 🫡 Cheers Sean 👌

New track by one of my favourite British singer-songwriters Ryan Fox, Atlantic Echoes - also the title track of his new album Mellifluous, reflective, plaintive, welcoming in the Summer - Go @Thinker_Fox, Go

RT @SamCKx: I can no longer hold my tongue seeing the utter lies being spread about Britain, our history of migration, and how this country was built into what it is today. For those so deeply buried in fake news, manufactured outrage and billionaire‑funded propaganda, I’m going to lay out the truth – and exactly why you’re being fed all this poison. Britain was never a sealed white island. From Roman times there were African soldiers stationed on Hadrian’s Wall and living in British towns, people from across the empire walking these roads nearly 2,000 years ago. Through the Middle Ages and Tudor England you still find Black people in the records – sailors, craftsmen, servants, musicians – even Black musicians at the royal court and Africans being baptised, marrying and being buried in English parishes like anyone else. This isn’t some modern experiment; it’s older than half the castles people visit on their bank‑holiday tours. As Britain went out into the world, the world came here. Sailors and traders from India, Yemen and beyond were arriving in British ports from the 1600s. Some of those men were practising a new faith to most Britons at the time, praying quietly in boarding houses near the docks while they worked brutal shifts in the engine rooms of British ships. Over the centuries, more people from North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia passed through and settled, bringing their languages, foods and beliefs into port cities that were far more mixed than today’s nostalgia merchants like to admit. After two world wars, the truth is simple: this country asked the Commonwealth to come and rebuild it. People from the Caribbean, Africa and South Asia didn’t sneak in; they were recruited. They came to drive buses and trains, staff the NHS, work in mills and foundries, clean offices, run corner shops, open takeaways and small businesses, and yes, build prayer spaces and community centres alongside churches and temples in the neighbourhoods everyone now pretends were always “traditional” and “unchanged”. They did the work that kept Britain going while being told to go home, refused housing, and treated as permanent outsiders. And what have they been paid back with? Scandals where people who’ve lived, worked and paid taxes here for decades get told they don’t belong. Policies designed to make life so hostile that some give up and leave. A media that uses their names, accents, clothes or places of worship as props in endless scare stories. The message is always the same: you might toil for this country, but you will never fully be of it. So when you hear that “Britain was white until recently” or that the country has been “overrun”, understand that you don’t arrive at that belief by accident. You get there because your history has been deliberately ripped out and replaced with a comforting myth: that “real” Britain is white, homogenous, and constantly under siege from people who look, speak or pray differently. Now look at when this myth has been turned up to max volume. Wages frozen. Housing a sick joke. Energy and food prices out of control. Public services hacked to pieces. At the same time, the number of people hoarding unimaginable wealth at the top has exploded. Funny, isn’t it, how every front page is about boats and “swarms” and “our culture”, and almost never about the landlords, hedge funds, private equity and offshore trusts quietly buying up your city and your future. That’s because this isn’t just prejudice; it’s a strategy. If you’re sitting on a mountain of wealth, the last thing you want is ordinary people – of every colour and background – realising they have the same problems and the same enemy. Much safer if the factory worker is furious at the new family down the road. Much safer if the person who can’t see a doctor blames the nurse with an accent instead of the minister who cut the funding. Much safer if a man who can’t afford his rent spends his rage on the woman in a headscarf at the bus stop instead of the billionaire who owns half his city. Racist rhetoric, religious dog‑whistling, all of it, exists to break solidarity. It turns neighbours into enemies and stops people seeing that Black, brown and white working‑class communities have far more in common with each other than any of them will ever have with the people flying in on private jets. It keeps you so busy policing skin colour, passports and prayer mats that you never get round to asking why your kids can’t afford a home, why your parents can’t get a hospital bed, why you’re working harder and standing still. The real story of Britain is this: a crossroads, not a fortress. Africans on Hadrian’s Wall. Black people in Tudor courts and city streets. Sailors, traders and workers from South Asia, the Middle East and beyond in the ports. Caribbean, African and Asian workers rebuilding the country after the war, staffing surgeries and hospitals, driving cabs, running shops, cooking food, teaching kids. Today’s multi‑ethnic, multi‑faith working class is not a glitch; it is Britain. It built this place and it keeps it running. If you’re genuinely angry about what’s happening to this country, good. You should be. But aim it where it belongs. Britain was never pure, never untouched, never “theirs” to take back. The people ruining your standard of living are not the ones risking their lives to get here, or the ones whose names you struggle to pronounce. They’re the ones buying politicians, owning media outlets, writing the story of this country so you never learn your own – and never realise who is standing beside you.

RT @seanbwparker: It's strange watching the mainstream news when you haven't seen it for ages. Feels like a bizarre world or formulaic, contrived bullshit. Ok, ok I watched Yvette Cooper talking about the Iran War last night on some channel or other (apparently she's Foreign Secretary now, the Student Cabinet does like to keep us on our toes) The degree to which she didn't seem to believe a word that was coming out of her own mouth was flabbergasting. Insincere, populist, political, boilerplate doublespeak of the grimmest, most approval-seeking order This government seem to have no idea they're only in power as punishment to the Tories. Or rather they're probably well aware of that, and so are going to be as globally embarrassing as possible while they have the chance

Yes please, come on @YouTube do the right thing.

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