Following on from Chris Leslie’s blog last week, Simon Nicol is treating you all to a frankly astonishing window on the world of the Fairport Convention tour bus. Brace yourselves for restaurant reviews, poorly fingers, and the first photograph of…
Author: For Folk's Sake
Interview | Reasons to Believe – FFS speaks to the artists and driving force behind new Tim Hardin tribute album
Reason To Believe is an album of songs by sixties-era folk-pop musician Tim Hardin, revived and celebrated by a host of modern-day artists including Mark Lanegan, Alela Diane and Okkervil River. We spoke to three artists featured on the album…
Album | Fuzzy Lights – Rule Of Twelfths
Having seen Fuzzy Lights live, I can testify that the Cambridgeshire quintet are absolutely tremendous in that setting, their understated stock delivery offset frequently by squalls of noise astonishingly out of keeping with what surrounds them. It’s as if they…
Album | Night Beds – Country Sleep
One of the first things you’re going to read about Country Sleep, whether here or anywhere else, is how the man behind the Night Beds name, 23-year-old Winston Yellens, wound up living in the house that was once home to…
Album | Willows – Beneath Our Humble Soil
It’s easy to become jaded when listening to new bands, and to focus too much on the search for some breathtakingly original new sound, only to be disappointed when what you hear doesn’t correspond to some vague, totally subjective ideal.…
Blog | Russell Swallow and the Wolf
Russell Swallow specialises in lovingly-crafted songs pitched somewhere between the romantics of Fleet Foxes, the upbeat poppiness of Patrick Wolf, and the brooding of Nick Drake and Jeff Buckley, with a strong voice and poetic, heartfelt lyrics. Check out ‘Home’…
Artist Blog | Chris Leslie of Fairport Convention blogs the first week of their UK tour
We’re jolly pleased to be playing host to the Fairport Convention 2013 Tour Blog, charting their journey around the fair isles of Great Britain. We’ll be publishing weekly blogs from different members of the band, taking in the sites and sounds of…
Album | Frightened Rabbit – Pedestrian Verse
Frightened Rabbit have set their sights on achieving household status with fourth album Pedestrian Verse. Known by those who keenly follow the rock genre, but overlooked by those with a more passive approach, the five-piece are muscling their way onto…
Album | Jim James – Regions of Light and Sound of God
Jim James, best known as the lead singer of My Morning Jacket, and whose only solo efforts were some beautiful stripped down lo-fi George Harrison covers under the moniker of Yim Yames has finally unveiled his first solo album. Opening…
Album | Fionn Regan – The Bunkhouse Vol. 1: Anchor Black Tattoo
Fionn Regan is a man who does not like his music being pigeon-holed. Fans who enjoyed the folk flavours of debut The End of History would have been surprised by the rock and roll of follow-up The Shadow of an…