In some ways, it’s hard to come up with superlatives to describe Laura Marling. She’s clearly a virtuosa… adept at playing the guitar, with an agile and capable voice that she controls well. Her lyrics are intelligent and versatile, flicking…
It’s 3pm, a couple of days after the glorious End Of The Road Festival 2015 and I’m online buying early bird tickets for EOTR 2016. I’m diligently clicking and refreshing waiting for the link to explode into life so I…
Within folk, there’s a constant and essential need to remain within the acoustic, the wooden, the real. Crossing into unfamiliar instrumental territory can often fragment a delicately antiquated and almost traditional approach to the genre. Familiar up and down the…
Deaf Heat opens with the unflinchingly peculiar ‘Tongues’: darkly modulating harmonies bend two minutes into a bottomless eternity of human voices, cutting through hearts like ice. Lead track ‘Deep Green’ thunders in after the ethereal strangeness of ‘Tongues’, imagining the body as…
Marika Hackman first burst on to the scene back in early 2012 with her sweet song ‘Here I Lie’, recorded for a Burberry campaign. The comparisons to Laura Marling, Joanna Newsom and Nico quickly rolled in, and it was clear…
Hidden in the depths of a valley in the Brecon Beacons lies one of the world’s best-kept secrets. Greenman Festival celebrated its tenth year anniversary, and served to be, yet again, one of the best festivals I have undoubtedly ever been to.
Perhaps being the most discrete and well-behaved festival we have ever attended, Bushstock nestles in cosily amongst London’s bustling Shepherds Bush Green and surrounding chicken shops, pubs and Greek falafell take-aways. In fact it is the reality of the loveliness…
Bushstock festival returns for a third year in the heart of Shepard’s Bush, West London. This year offers up a pletitude of acts including Sivu, Thumpers and Roo Panes all performing across four venues. Bushstock was set up…
The British summer may be getting off to a non-existent start but summery things are happening – English weather be damned – starting with one of our favourite festivals of the year, The Great Escape. Champion of the little guy,…
The Staves headed the final wave of acts to be added to the Cambridge Folk Festival as the complete line-up was revealed today. The trio will play Main Stage 1 on the Sunday of the event which runs from July…