Tag: Laura Marling

Laura Marling is an English singer-songwriter, originally from Eversley, Hampshire but now based in LA. Read news, reviews and interviews and find tour dates for Laura Marling on For Folk’s Sake.

Laura Marling's Christmas song: Goodbye England

This song is beautiful. Some kind (and a bit illegal) person has yoinked the music, stuck it over a way old photo of Laura and put it up on YouTube. [Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGot7yoKyg8]

Live: Laura Marling @ St Pancras Old Church, 23rd Nov

Laura Marling walked on stage unnoticed at St Pancras Old Church on Monday night. There was a hush of silence as the crowd spotted an unfamiliar figure reaching out for the guitar and walking towards centre stage. Something wasn’t quite right.

“I have some explaining to do,” she said, leaning into the mic and waving her hand over her head. “About the colour of my hair,” she added and we all let out an awkward laugh. Laura Marling and her distinguished white/blonde hair were gone and instead a sophisticated brunette stood in her place.

Live: Daniel Johnston, Laura Marling, The Wave Pictures @ Union Chapel, London

We arrived at Union Chapel to catch the end of The Wave Pictures’ earlier-than-advertised slot. The Leicestershire band delivered an assured performance, and have certainly come along way since FFS last saw them at End of the Road 2008. When they close with the brilliant Strange Fruit For David, we see why The Wave Pictures are so well-loved by established alt-folkers like Jeffrey Lewis and Darren Hayman, with whom they’ve appeared on stage.

Telegraph.co.uk’s Laura Marling review remarkably similar to Wears The Trousers’ write-up

Parts of a write up of Laura Marling’s excellent show on Tuesday night appearing on the Telegraph’s website have been shown to be remarkably similar to a review posted online earlier by our friends at Wears The Trousers.

WTT’s article was written by Richard Steele, a frequent contributor for the magazine who’s reviewed such FFS favourites as Blue Roses, Slow Club and Emmy the Great.

The Telegraph.co.uk article is attributed to Jack Arnhold.

Laura Marling announces line-up for Southbank show

Laura Marling’s forthcoming gig at the Royal Festival Hall on 11th August has been sold out for some time, but the songstress has only just announced the full line-up. It is, unsurprisingly, a-maz-ing

Glastonbury for folkies

It’s that time of year again where people will be packing their wellies, baby wipes and cider and heading to Somerset for the highlight of many people’s summer, Glastonbury Festival. Taking place from the 26th to the 28th June, with only a week to go until the mayhem begins here’s the rundown to the bands you wont want to miss this summer, no matter how sunburnt/drenched/drunk/hung-over you may be!