by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Artist Blog | Patch & The Giant confess to all that they stole – Part 3
Ahead of the release of their debut album early next year, welcome to the second instalment of a five-part confessional from members of Patch & The Giant as they admit to past crimes of the light-fingered variety, and offer up…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Live | The Divine Comedy @ St George’s Hall, Bristol
Tonight’s performance from The Divine Comedy is one of two halves or, at least, two costumes. The first outfit that Neil Hannon sports is the bowler-hatted businessman, complete with folded umbrella and starched white shirt. Consistent with the outfit Hannon…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Album | Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker – Overnight
Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker return with their fifth full-length album together (though one is just credited to Clarke) and fans of the previous efforts together will not be disappointed by this one either. To these ears, Clarke has one…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Album | Kate Rusby – Life in a Paper Boat
In Great Britain, Kate Rusby is nothing short of a national treasure, yet stateside she remains a largely unheard commodity. 14 albums in, her 24-year career has set an unrivaled standard for quality. Life In A Paper Boat does nothing…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Live | Stars Of The Lid @ The Lantern, Bristol
As a green 17-year-old I attended an interview for a place at university. Noting Maths and English were among my A levels the interviewer asked, “Have you found any common ground between science and art?” Had I been aware of…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Artist Blog | Patch & The Giant confess to all that they stole – Part 1
Ahead of the release of their debut album early next year, welcome to the first instalment of a five-part confessional from members of Patch & The Giant as they admit to past crimes of the light-fingered variety, and offer up…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Album | Julia Jacklin – Dont Let the Kids Win
“It’s trying to figure out how to responsible when you don’t identify with who you were anymore” Julia Jacklin leaves a life of working in a essential oils factory well and truly behind on a debut album which is mature,…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Live | Mogwai @ Coventry Cathedral
Although June’s show in Hiroshima perhaps pipped it, filmmaker Mark Cousins and Mogwai couldn’t have chosen a better setting for the screening of Atomic, Living In Dread And Promise than Coventry Cathedral, which was decimated by Nazi airstrikes in 1940…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Live | Together The People 2016
Together the People festival returned to Brighton’s Preston Park on 3rd and 4th September for its second year. The Saturday began with some high pitched children’s entertainment on the main stage, which we consciously avoided. Instead, we made our way…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Live | Dan Owen @ St. Pancras Old Church, London
On a warm September evening we entered the beautiful and intimate confines of St Pancras Old Church. Here we were greeted by Irish singer-songwriter Eve Belle who kicked off the night with her lyrically driven whispy tones, alongside the gentle…