Author: Ian Parker

Ian is For Folk's Sake's reviews editor. Find him on Twitter @iparky.

News | Simone Felice releases ‘You & I Belong’ video

Simone Felice has given us another taster of his forthcoming solo album, unveiling the video for You & I Belong, which will be released as a single on March 19, two weeks ahead of his self-titled album. The new track…

Blog | Gibson Bull, Blue Sky Archives & Marie Naffah

Few artists to have been covered by our New Bands Panel have brought about as good a reaction as Gibson Bull, so we were excited to hear a new track from him this week. The London singer-songwriter has started work…

EP | The Way Home – The Ship

Suffolk is rarely thought of as a centre of gospel and blues music but from this low-lying county come The Way Home, who seem as they might instead have been raised on the Mississippi Delta. On their debut release The…

News | Michael Kiwanuka announces more live dates

Michael Kiwanuka has taken time out from his sold-out UK tour to announce…another UK tour. The London singer-songwriter hit the road last week as he gets ready for the release of his debut album Home Again next month. But he…

News | Admiral Fallow unveil details of new album

Admiral Fallow have been getting very busy in the past few weeks, unveiling a new single, plans for a mammoth UK tour, and they have now announced details of their second album. Tree Bursts In Snow will be released on…

Interview | The Third Coming of Simone Felice

When doctors told Simone Felice that, at the age of 33, he should by rights be dead, it wasn’t like he hadn’t been there before. In June of 2010, Felice was diagnosed with aortic stenosis, a serious heart condition that…

Album | The Soft Hills – The Bird Is Coming Down To Earth

For a city still tied intrinsically to its grunge history, Seattle might soon find itself identified as a centre of folk-pop. Fleet Foxes and Band of Horses are at the forefront, of course, but somewhere just behind them are the…

News | Richard Hawley unveils new album plans

Richard Hawley will release his first studio album in three years this coming May in the form of Standing At The Sky’s Edge, and he’s promising a major change in direction. Where 2009’s Truelove’s Gutter was sparse and nakedly beautiful,…

News | Andrew Butler to release February 14th EP

Fans of FFS’s long-running New Bands Panel (which is getting an overhaul very soon – stay tuned) should remember Andrew Butler, who got a going over from our panel way back in September 2010. What we found then was a…

News | Veronica Falls unveil new track ‘My Heart Beats’

Veronica Falls are back. Although it’s less than six months since their debut album was released, the band have already got a new song for us as they returned this week with ‘My Heart Beats’. They’ve wasted no time at…