FFS asked you for your #bestbits of songs on twitter today — your favourite couple of seconds of music, one that makes you swoon, cry or nigh-on burst with joy. You came up with so many good suggestions that we…
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.
Free Bandstand Busking stage at Meltdown festival: Johnny Flynn, Slow Club, Broadcast 2000, Laura Hocking
The ever wonderful Bandstand Busking have announced they are to curate two free shows at Richard Thompson’s Meltdown festival this month. The first gig, which takes places this Sunday (13th June) from 1-7pm, features Sam Amidon and Laura Hocking –…
Profile: Ben Phillips, artist for Peggy Sue, Alessi and Rachael Dadd
We came across Ben Phillips through his intriguing artwork on Peggy Sue’s releases. But his involvement with the London folk crowd doesn’t stop there. The Camberwell-based artist has been prolific over the past few years, providing artwork and posters for…
Win tickets to Aidan Moffat’s London show this Saturday
Arab Strap front man Aidan Moffat is playing in London this Saturday and we’re giving one lucky reader the chance to win a pair of tickets. Aidan’s playing the show solo and will be performing songs from all his various…
Laura Marling on Joni Mitchell
We know Joni Mitchell Week was last week, but we’ve just had this submission from one Laura Marling, who’s been busy galavanting all over the States, and we just couldn’t leave it out. Laura’s said on many occasions that Joni’s…
5-track sample of Johnny Flynn’s album available to stream
We were delighted to see Johnny Flynn’s second album Been Listening plop through the letter box at FFS HQ this weekend — and on first listen it’s just as good as we expected. Laura Marling guest vocals on a track…
Kirsty McGee on Joni Mitchell
It had been a hard and gratifying spring. I was all lean muscle and mudstains after months of climbing trees at the Manchester airport protest camp and feeling good from all the fresh air, living in benders, hitching, cooking outdoors…
Classic Album: Ain’t No Neil – Joni Mitchell’s For The Roses
In 1972, two Canadian musicians released amazing folk albums, both coincidentally featuring songs about heroin addicts. Despite the links between Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, listening to Harvest and For The Roses I feel like they were never really trying…
Why I love Joni Mitchell: Diane Cluck, Louis Gilbert, Ciara McPolin, Katie Carroll, FFS’s dad
Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan have had a bit of a spat, and there’s nothing worse than our folk mum and folk dad fighting. We’ve declare this week ‘Joni Week’ to make sure ma knows she’s appreciated. Laura Marling says: “Court and…
Video round-up: Joni Mitchell, Melodica, Melody & Me, Local Natives, Johnny Flynn…
Joni Mitchell – California It’s Joni Michell week here at FFS so it’s only right to start with a Joni video. This BBC session performance of California was recommended to us by Nick Hemming from The Leisure Society (he of…