Do you hear that? Yup, we think that’s the sound of sunbeams breaking through the clouds. The rainclouds that have been tipping out their paddling pools upon us all winter are finally taking a break to refill them and make…
For Folk’s Sake are delighted to announce that, under the courtesy of Glassnote Records, we are giving away a pair of tickets to catch the one and only Jeremy Messersmith on his upcoming European tour. Hailing from Minneapolis, singer-songwriter Jeremy Messersmith releases his latest…
Forgive me please a first-person review, but I feel quite personally about Paul Thomas Saunders. The first gig I ever reviewed, four or five years ago now, was a launch show for his first EP Four Songs In Twilight which…
There’s something inherently paradoxical about the ubiquity of Elbow’s mammoth hit ‘One day like this’ – a song about a single, brief moment of life-changing beauty that ended up being, well, everywhere. In fact, I’ve often doubted whether a body…
“I’m not here to be the sufferer, for the fears of all humankind. I’m here to sing and get up in your everything.” So goes the chorus of ‘Shame’, though it could well function as a manifesto for Joan Wasser’s…
Johnny Flynn certainly likes to keep himself busy. If he’s not treading the boards in a Shakespearean production in the West End, he’s sharing screen time with Hollywood A-listers in a cinema near you. But it’s his role as a…
Any regular listener of Guy Garvey’s Sunday afternoon slot will be familiar with his relentless gushing over Jesca Hoop – a California born songstress who, having married Elbow’s tour manager, is now based in Garvey’s native Manchester. Just last week…
I am by no means an important person; but I don’t like to be kept waiting. I have long since reconciled myself to the fact that coolness is beyond my grasp – but it has always eluded me, from a…
On the day of the launch of his self-released album and hot off the back of supporting Newton Faulkner (who we catch lurking at the back of the venue), Sam Brookes welcomes a sold out crowd who eagerly gather to…
