HAPPY NEW YEAR! Did you have fun? Was it great? Was it full of port and disgusting levels of over-indulgence? Having spent a good couple of days as a statistic ‘home without power’ I thankfully saw Christmas through with a…
Hi! Pleased to meet you. In case we haven’t met before, my name is Daniel and I am the singer, guitarist and songwriter who goes out under the name, Laish (lie-shh). I’ve been kicking around in Brighton and now London…
Hello. I’m the Interview Editor here at For Folk’s Sake. I look a bit like this. I’ve teamed up with the artist Al Lewis and awesome FFS writer Puja Maniar to put on a folk night in Tooting Market, South…
To celebrate Halloween Joe Innes is offering a free download of his zombie-filled track The Frighteners. He calls it his “lo-fi indie version of Michael Jackson’s thriller” and when it’s played live the crowd provide a backdrop of growls, werewolf…
Patch and the Giant are a harmonising, foot-stomping, roof-raising seven piece folk band based in London. They run monthly shows at the Boogaloo in Highgate, North London, which always have fabulous line-ups. In this, her second installment, we’ve asked Angie…
Patch and the Giant are a harmonising, foot-stomping, roof-raising seven piece folk band based in London. They run monthly shows at the Boogaloo in Highgate, North London, which always have fabulous line-ups. Not wanting to miss the chance to discover some great new music, we’ve asked Angie from the band to tell us a bit more about the artists playing this Sunday 29th.
For Folk’s Sake is five years old today.
And to celebrate we’re delighted to reveal our new design, from our talented friend Sarah Oxley. We think it’s beautiful, and we hope you do too.
Please indulge us while we take a look at the best of the past five years. And say a HUGE thank you to the editors, writers, photographers and musicians without which this site wouldn’t exist.
Here’s to the next five years!
Team FFS x
Hello from the Isle of Eigg. My battery is low, what do I tell you?! We’re playing our show on power from the tide, wind, sun — one or all of the above — tonight.
We borrowed better shoes and walked around some crazy cliffs, muds, ferns, swooping swamping incredible views, up to massacre cave where the entire population of Eigg was smoked to death, all in one go, in the 1600s. We turned off all the lights and didn’t say anything for a while.
We’ve been lost in a world of mist for days! Everyone in Shetland said it was a shame but that’s probably just their habit. I think we all thought it was beautiful and mysterious.
Saw airplaney Fulmars all over the super-shrouded Eshaness cliffs today. Giant pointy Ganets above the wake of the ferry earlier this evening — especially cool after reading about them in the St Kilda book….
Arrived to Shetland! highlights of the 12-hour ferry trip over included:
Playing games w/ Robin, Thom, Matt, and Paul w/ pints of Simmer Dim, reading Oscar & Lucinda, pretty comfy bunks, dancing on the deck (see video), being picked up by Neil Riddell (Ragged Wood Promotions), and taken back to scones and cats at his house…