The Green Man promised magic and he didn’t disappoint. Once again the organisers pulled off the spectacular trick of attracting the friendliest festival crowd to the most laid-back festival there is, while enticing some of the weirdest and most wonderful…
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.
EP: Dharohar Project, Laura Marling & Mumford & Sons – iTunes Live
This brilliantly entertaining EP from Laura Marling, Mumford & Sons and the Dharohar Project is made up of live recordings from their combined set at the iTunes Festival in Camden Roundhouse on the 9th July. The EP opens with two…
Live: Mariner’s Children and Tristram
It was a windy night and the sun had begun to sink into the horizon, when a crowd of folk-loving youths sat their bottoms onto the deck of the Tamesis Dock, a boat moored along the south side of the…
Laura Marling announced as Foxtrot’s secret headliner
The chaps at Brighton collective Willkommen have been keeping the identity of their Foxtrot headliner firmly underwraps, but have tonight revealed that it’s none other than Laura Marling. She joins an already exciting bill featuring Rozi Plain, The Mariner’s Children,…
Brian’s Mixtape #41: Pick of the Schmercuries 2010
This weekend we launched our Schmercury Poll – FFS’s best album award, in which we’re asking you to vote for your favourite of 12 albums released in the past year. While the FFS editors were tearing our hair out, trying…
Schmercury Awards 2010: Shortlist announced
Not one to be left out of all this Mercury spoofing, FFS is delighted to announce this year’s Schmercury Awards shortlist. We had such a hard time whittling all the fantastic albums released this year down to just 12 that…
Laura Marling speaks out about tough India gigs
Twice Mercury-nominated folk star Laura Marling has spoken out about the difficult gigs she played in India on tour with Mumford & Sons. On a mini documentary Goodbye India, now playing on her website, the 20-year-old says: “India was totally…
In Photos: Latitude Festival
Our photographer about town, Georgie M’Glug, reports on the folkier side of Latitude…. Demure and unassuming as ever, but with a new-found fire in her belly, Laura Marling commands the Obelisk Arena on Friday night
Brian’s Mixtape #39: The Middleclass Myth of Love and Marriage
Brian’s an enlightened sort of owl, and this week he’s taken it upon himself to learn about Feminism. He’s realised it’s a rather complicated subject – probably because it tries to cater for the needs of over half of the…
Blog | What went wrong at Hop Farm Festival?
Marcus Mumford and I are in agreement. Hop Farm had the best line-up of any festival this summer – he announced as much live on stage. Mumford & Sons were joined by Johnny Flynn, Laura Marling, Seasick Steve, Peter Doherty,…