by Joe Sweeting • • Comments Off on Live | Keston Cobblers Club – Nottingham Rescue Rooms
If Keston Cobblers Club are a name you are unfamiliar with, I strongly advise you to remedy this. One of the best unheralded acts in the UK in 2017, the 5 Kent based 5 piece (Matthew and Julia Lowe, Bethan…
by Joe Sweeting • • Comments Off on Album | Ciaran Lavery – A King at Night EP
Ciaran Lavery is not a musician to sit on his laurels. Just a mere few months after the release of Live at the Mac, a record preserving his concert at the venue in December 2015, Lavery has returned with a…
by Joe Sweeting • • Comments Off on Album | Fionn Regan – The Meetings of the Waters
It is difficult to believe that we are already through a quarter of 2017. Already, in the opening four months of the year, there has been a gluttony of outstanding musical releases, and it seems likely that we can add…
by Joe Sweeting • • Comments Off on News | The Unthanks return with Volume 4 of their Diversions & tour dates for Spring 2017
For Folks Sake favourites The Unthanks have announced their latest release, Diversions Volume 4: The Songs and Poems of Molly Drake, set for release on May 26th 2017. Ostensibly a continuation of their exploitative work into the folk traditions, Songs of……
by Joe Sweeting • • Comments Off on Album | San Fermin – Belong
It is a rare moment where a band presents themselves as being an ensemble performing expansive chamber-pop, yet, back with their third LP of such music, San Fermin return with Belong. Primarily a construct by Ellis Ludwig-Leone, who has previously…
by Joe Sweeting • • Comments Off on SOTD | Charlie Fink – Firecracker
The voice of Charlie Fink is a joy to hear, especially so in the current climate of political and social upheaval and troubles. Noah & The Whale were unfairly typecast after the success of ‘5 Years Time’, a shame, as…
by Joe Sweeting • • Comments Off on First Play | Allred and Broderick – Find The Ways
We like spoiling you here at For Folks Sake. Not just content with providing you with reviews of the latest releases, from time to time, we provide a new soundtrack to your day, and the album stream below from Allred…
by Joe Sweeting • • Comments Off on SOTD | Ciaran Lavery – New Partner
Ostensibly a release for the forthcoming 10th anniversary Record Store Day (22nd April), Northern Irish musician Ciaran Lavery, fresh from releasing a well-received live album at the tail end of 2016, has dipped his toe into the cavernous back catalogue…
by Joe Sweeting • • Comments Off on Interview | Keston Cobblers Club on being ‘Almost Home’.
The world is a much brighter place when Keston Cobblers Club are gearing up to release new music, and over the course of the past few years, the band have honed their craft of creating joyous, up-tempo folk-rock to produce…
by Joe Sweeting • • Comments Off on Album | Tennis – Yours Conditionally
Beginning life as a chronicle of a summer on board a yacht way back in 2011, Tennis, comprising husband-and-wife duo Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley, return with their forth LP of sun soaked songs tinged with sadness, Yours Conditionally. The…