Spiral Earth

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Spiral Earth is an online news channel and website, based in Cambridgeshire, England. It covers folk music, roots music and the alternative music scene in the United Kingdom. It is edited by Iain Hazlewood,{{cite web

|url=http://www.talkingnewmedia.com/2014/12/12/publisher-spiral-earth-launches-new-digital-magazine-doctrine-magazine/

|title=Publisher of Spiral Earth launches new digital magazine, The Doctrine Magazine | website=Talking New Media

|date=12 December 2014 |accessdate=5 February 2015 |author=Hebbard, D B}}{{cite magazine

|url=http://www.frootsmag.com/content/critpoll/2010/critics_poll_2010.pdf | title=Albums 2010 | magazine=fRoots | year=2010 |accessdate=7 November 2020

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131126034801/http://www.frootsmag.com/content/critpoll/2010/critics_poll_2010.pdf |archive-date=26 November 2013 |url-status=dead}} who founded Spiral Earth in 2004.{{cite web

|url=http://www.spiralearth.co.uk/news/editor.asp | title=The Editor Ramble on... | last= Hazlewood |first=Iain

|website=Spiral Earth | accessdate=7 November 2020

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924104538/http://www.spiralearth.co.uk/news/editor.asp |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=dead}}

Spiral Earth's website includes reviews of CD releases and music festivals and features about music. Its feature writers have included Colin Irwin, former assistant editor of Melody Maker magazine and former editor of Number One magazine,{{cite web

|url=http://www.spiralearth.co.uk/news/irwin.asp

|title=The Colin Irwin column | website=Spiral Earth | accessdate=7 November 2020

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924104542/http://www.spiralearth.co.uk/news/irwin.asp |archive-date=24 September 2015}} writer and folk musician Andy Letcher,{{cite web

|url=http://www.spiralearth.co.uk/news/letchersummary.asp | title=The Lie of the Land – Andy Letcher | website=Spiral Earth

|accessdate=7 November 2020

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924104552/http://www.spiralearth.co.uk/news/letchersummary.asp

|archive-date=24 September 2015}} Kirsty Ambler, and Dave Kushar.{{cite web

|url=http://www.spiralearth.co.uk/news/kushar.asp | title=Dave Kushar – The Insider | website=Spiral Earth

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924104547/http://www.spiralearth.co.uk/news/kushar.asp |archive-date=24 September 2015

|accessdate=7 November 2020}}

It publishes an online guide to UK and European folk, roots, and alternative festivals.{{cite web |url=https://www.spiralearth.co.uk/festival-directory/ |title=Festival Directory |website=Spiral Earth | accessdate=7 November 2020}} This was formerly in association with fRoots magazine.