Mick Bisiker’s Rack and Ruin – lively folk-rock

Mick Bisiker’s Rack and Ruin are a Warwickshire based five-piece folk-rock band playing a mixture of loud and lively folk-rock: fiddle driven traditional songs, sets of tunes and jigs and reels – with added saxophones and whistles.

Rack and Ruin Live at the Stockton Folk Club

We will be playing an acoustic set upstairs at the Nelson Club, Stockton CV47 8JU
Free admission starts at 7.30pm

Rack and Ruin live on The Jester Stage, Warwick Folk Festival
Rack and Ruin live on the Jester Stage at the Warwick Folk Festival

Rack and Ruin are just as comfortable headlining a large music festival or performing at a wedding celebration, birthday party, house concert or other private party or function.

What kind of band is Rack and Ruin?

“If you crave the best of traditional folk, followed by an extra helping of rip-roaring contemporary folk, layered on top of some excellent original compositions, then Mick Bisiker’s Rack and Ruin is the band for you.
The standard of songwriting was exceptional, the musicianship was outstanding and the presentation/stage-presence was both professional and joyous. To sum-up, it was simply the best!” – Derry Jones, Woodman Folk Club

Our contemporary blend of lively folk rock, celtic, roots music is interwoven with fiddle and mandola driven foot-tapping jigs and reels that makes for an enjoyable and entertaining event.

Buy and download our music on Amazon or iTunes or you can listen on Spotify

Rack and Ruin do Barn Dances and Ceilidhs too – find out more on our ceilidh band website

Here’s some tracks off the album: “On The Road To…”

New York Girls

As I Roved Out

King Of The Fairies Set

Rack and Ruin's fifth album "On The Road To... is now available.
Buy and download on Amazon or iTunes or you can listen on Spotify

You can also buy as a CD at any of the band's gigs, or by emailing band@rackandruin.co.uk

Last updated – 31 July 2026

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