Sea of Bees is without a doubt my favourite new artist of 2010. Her debut album Songs for the Ravens was released to critical acclaim and declared Rough Trade album of the month. But more importantly to FFS, she popped…
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.
WIN! Tickets to The Head & the Heart, Mariners Children and The Fancy Dress Party in London (24/01)
Rockfeedback‘s folk and roots night Over The Green Hills is back for 2011 with a stellar line up at London’s Lexington on 24th January. Headliners The Head & the Heart from Seattle are here on their first UK visit. They…
Laura Hocking gives away free music, plans single release
The inimitable Laura Hocking is giving away a whopping nine demo tracks over on her last fm page, including favourites ‘Oh La, Lolita’ and ‘Loves of a Girl Wrestler’. Download it now. Laura and her band ‘The Long Goodbye’ also…
Mountain Goats to release new album in April
Exciting news for fans of music that’s jolly good indeed. John Darnielle and his merry band of Mountain Goats are to release a new album – All Eternals Deck – in April this year. The band have left 4AD, the…
Darren Hayman to release a song every day in January
The uber-talented Darren Hayman has set himself the goal of writing, recording and releasing a song a day this month. Each song is released as a free download, available for only a couple of days. You can get them from…
10 Questions with… Stealing Sheep
We are Becky, Emily & Lucy. We live in Liverpool. At the moment we have an old Yamaha keyboard, electric guitar and a stripped down drum kit. The music revolves around the three part harmonies and we like to be creative with our approach to songwriting, lyrics and song arrangements.
Christmas show on London Fields Radio
In all the Christmas album hoopla, I’d almost forgotten to tell y’all a bout our Christmas radio show. I recorded it last week in sludgey Hackney with Bitter Fingers presenter and generally nice chap Mark Higgins. We delved into the…
Need a last-minute present? Download our album artwork and make a CD!
After a last minute present for a music-lover? You can make up your own physical copy of For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas with our downloadable cover below. Just burn a CD and print the cover, then either sellotape 2 edges,…
For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas – over £1000 raised so far! Bonus EP announced
We’re delighted to report that For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas, our festive album to raise money for King’s Integrated Cancer Centre, has raised over £1000 so far. Thank you to all those who have donated. We’re selling the album through…
Bright Eyes announces new album and London show
Conor Oberst, one-time wunderkind and now purveyor of mixed-quality albums and shows is to release another Bright Eyes album and play some shows. It’s hard to know whether to be excited or not, but let’s tell ourselves it’s going to…