You are cordially invited to a very special For Folk’s Sake show at The Gallery Cafe in East London this Wednesday 25 July. The wonderful Bard will be playing. You can listen to their beautiful album The Springtime Fool below.…
Author: Lynn Roberts
Lynn founded For Folk's Sake in 2008. Her favourite artists are Joni Mitchell, The Leisure Society and The Mountain Goats. She plays keyboards in Joe Innes & the Cavalcade.
EP | Bonnie Prince Billy – Now Here’s My Plan
I sometimes wonder what it would be like if modern songs were given the kind of interpretative renditions born by traditional music – if more cover versions consciously shaped meaning, like Bellowhead, rather than merely adapting style, like the Mystery…
Album | Levellers – Static on the Airwaves
Mark Chadwick, Simon Friend and co are among the originators and the great survivors of the folk-rock crossover and, now more than two decades in, have produced an album to rekindle memories of their glory days. The brief opening title…
News | Daniel Radcliffe stars in Slow Club’s new video
Harry Potter himself is the star of a new video for Sheffield duo Slow Club’s track Beginners. Daniel Radcliffe, who interviewed Slow Club for Time Out earlier this year, mouths along with Rebecca and Charles’s vocals in the four-minute film…
Blog | Recommended artist: Foreign Fields
I’ve been listening to this obsessively since I stumbled across it. The record is from Nashville-via-Wisconsin band Foreign Fields, formerly known as Flights. Eric Hillman and Brian Holl are the brains behind Foreign Fields. They describe their music as electronic…
Compeition | Robin Pecknold, Daniel Rossen and Van Dyke Parks at the Barbican
Those kind folks at the Barbican are offering FFS readers the chance to win two tickets to a very special concert this month. Legendary producer and songwriter Van Dyke Parks* is releasing three of his solo albums Song Cycle (1968),…
Celebrating 25 years of Paul Simon’s Graceland
by the Leisure Society, Dark Dark Dark, Sean Keavney, Tom Robinson, Emmy the Great, Ellen & the Escapades, Michele Stodart, Tom McRae, Broadcast 2000, Anika Mottershaw, Georgia Ruth, Natalie Roberts
News | Jeff Lewis, Alessi’s Ark, Francois & the Atlas Mountains and more exhibit artwork in London
This Friday sees the opening of “DIY is all you need”, a free exhibition celebrating music and DIY culture in Deptford, London. Organised by Folie à Deux and Broken Sound, the exhibition will include artwork from Jeffrey Lewis, Rachael Dadd, Rozi Plain,…
Write for For Folk’s Sake!
Are you a budding writer and a die hard music fan? FFS are looking for keen folk/roots/indie/pop fans to join our team of reviewers and interviewers. No experience is no problem, because we’re looking for fresh ears for our New…
Blog | New favourite band: I Am Oak
Here is everything we know about I Am Oak: – The band is based around a songwriter called Thijs Kuijken – He is from Utrecht in the Netherlands – Their website is here: iamoak.com – You can listen to their albums…