When we decided to host a party to celebrate our fifth birthday, naturally we invited some of our best folk friends along to play, like Gerard and the Watchmen and Worry Dolls. So that’s who you’ll see if you come…
#251 Worry Dolls – London
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#247 Simian Ghost – Be My Wife
Sweden’s Simian Ghost have new material on the way in the form of a rather lovely-sounding single called ‘A Million Shining Colours’. It would be remiss of us though not to flag up this blissful cover of David Bowie’s ‘Be…
#245 The Staves – Mexico
The Staves are on tour at the moment, which is easily excuse enough for us to bang on about how amazing they are all over again. This session recording of ‘Mexico’ – on a beach and then, when the rain…
#244 Mutual Benefit – “Let’s Play” / Statue Of A Man
Well this is a bit bloody lovely, isn’t it? Mutual Benefit is the project of Jordan Lee, who got a bunch of friends to help him record his debut album, Love’s Crushing Diamond. It’s a project that has gathered a…
News | Peggy Sue announce April tour dates
For Folk’s Sake favourites Peggy Sue have announced a UK tour in April. The London three-piece release their new album Choir Of Echoes on January 27 with a sold-out launch gig in London on the same day. For anyone who…
#238 Tanya Davis – Art
Canadian Tanya Davis earned a level of fame a couple of years back because of this video made by artist Andrea Dorfman, a reading of her poem How To Be Alone set to animation and live action and general goodness.…
#235 Elliott Smith – Waltz #2 (XO)
There are certain songs that catch you at just the right time and shape the way you experience and appreciate music forever. Elliott Smith’s Waltz #2 (XO) is a song that did that to a host of impressionable music lovers…
#233 Basia Bulat – City With No Rivers/Wires
It’s a two-for-one bumper-bonus day here at FFS! Get your folk tunes while they’re hot! ‘Wires’ is the latest single taken from Basia Bulat’s album Tall Tall Shadow. You can hear the single here, but we love this session version of…
#231 God Help The Girl – Funny Little Frog
A film of God Help The Girl, starring Sucker Punch actor Emily Browning and Hannah Murray (Skins and Game of Thrones), is due out next year. The project is the brainchild of Belle & Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch, who launched…
#230 Sukh – Den
New single ‘Den’ is one of Sukh’s favourite songs off his debut album Kings. We know this because he told us himself. “Den [is one of my favourites] because its more of a soundscape and feels rich, warm and inviting…