Artist in residence to our favourite folkies, Sophie Milner, opens an exhibition of her work in London this weekend. The print exhibition at Tower 27 in Camden opens today and runs until 7th October. It features work produced for Laura…
It’s very hard to talk about The lovely Sophie Jamieson without prefacing her name thus. She is lovely and so is her music. It sounds gentle but don’t be fooled into thinking it’s twee, there’s an intelligence and sonic darkness…
We first heard this track on Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour, when he called Charles Aznavour the “Frank Sinatra of France”. It’s an incredible diatribe from an eloquent, bitter man: “I drink to drive away all the years I have…
We had the pleasure of catching Danny Green from Laish* at the Gallery Cafe in London last week, and it reminded us of the brilliance of this song and it’s gorgeous animated video. The Brighton-based band – who are members…
Two of your humble FFS servants are off to End of the Road festival in Dorset today and we’re barely able to contain ourselves. The festival never misses a beat with its line-ups and we’ve been faithful attendees since we…
Today’s Song of the Day is a gorgeous folk ballad taken from Johnny Flynn’s forthcoming album Country Mile. ‘After Eliot’ is inspired by the poet T.S Eliot and reflects on a relationship fraught with miscommunication and misunderstandings. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/105248793″ params=””…
Tessa Bickers has written for For Folk’s Sake in the past, reviewing and interviewing Laura Marling. A singer in her own right, a year ago she spent all her savings on booking the Union Chapel without so much as a…
The title track from Christmas album alumni Josienne and Ben’s new record, Fire and Fortune is an original composition among an album of old and new songs. A sparsely orchestrated, building track that shows off Josienne’s gorgeous vocals perfectly. If…
Rilo Kiley released their b-sides album this year, which was nice but a straw poll suggests its main effect was to make everyone dig out their copy of 2002’s The Execution of All Things and listen to it on repeat. There is…
Some happy news for fans of Johnny Flynn. The East London troubador has announced his long-awaited third album Country Mile will be released on 30 September through his old friends at Transgressive Records. You can download the brilliant first single…