Rebecca and Charles of Slow Club have announced a 15-date UK tour for 2011 to coincide with a second album. Further details of the album are yet to be announced, but like their debut Yeah So it will be released…
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.
FFS releases charity Christmas album
For Folk’s Sake is delighted to present: For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas. It’s our first ever release, and we’re selling it in aid of the Integrated Cancer Centre at King’s College London, which provides cancer care as well as being…
Album: Regina Spektor – Live In London
Throughout Regina Spektor Live In London you can hear one girl squealing madly at the start of every song. Like the audience do at the Xfactor, when they realise Olly Murs is about to murder Killing Me Softly or somesuch.…
Bandstand Busking get festive with video advent calendar
The marvellous folk at Bandstand Busking have put together a video advent calendar to delight our ears to the run up to Christmas. A new, unseen video will be revealed every day on bandstandbusking.com. Artists tipped for inclusion are Sam…
Blog: For Folk’s Sake Radio – if you don’t like lovely, you won’t like this
On Sunday I popped down to London Fields Radio to record the first ever FFS radio show in a cafe against a background of the clatter of crockery and the hum of Hackney-ites chatting. There’ll be a monthly-or-thereabouts show from…
Quick! Help us name our Christmas album
FFS is producing a Christmas album for Charity. More details will be announced very soon, but right now we’re stuck on a name. And we need one to tell our supertalented designer so he can set about making the coverart.…
Caitlin Rose on Twisted Folk UK tour
Nashville wonder Caitlin Rose heads out on a UK tour with superpromoter Twisted Folk this week. Her album ‘Own Side Now’ was released in the summer, and has barely left FFS’s CD player since. It’s a lovely mixture of proper…
Johnny Flynn to tour UK in December
Johnny Flynn has announced a 7-date UK tour in December, on his return from the continent. Flynn, who recently joined Mumford & Sons on their sell out UK headline tour, will play dates in England and Scotland. Johnny Flynn Headline…
FFS interview: Emily & the Woods
Emily & the Woods is a family affair. When FFS caught the band at the Folkroom at The Queen’s Head pub in London, frontwoman and songwriter Emily Wood was joined by her father and brother. Unamplified, Emily is not afraid…
Blog: Dark Dark Dark
I love love love Dark Dark Dark. Anika sent me the link to this video a little while ago and I’ve not stopped listening to their Myspace since. They’re a six piece from Minneapolis and have done a couple of Daytrotter…