It’s fair to say that a quite a bit of hype has generated around Nick Mulvey in recent months so as I rounded the steps at London’s Scala, I found myself wondering if he’d be able to live up to…
Live | Nick Mulvey @ Scala, London
Category: Gigs
Live | Bombay Bicycle Club at Rock City
Fresh from securing the Number 1 album position for their latest LP, So Long, See you Tomorrow, Bombay Bicycle Club have embarked on a UK Tour playing all the branded academies and clubs across the width and breadth of the…
Live | Serafina Steer at Women of the World Festival
‘Syd Barrett with a harp’ isn’t quite how the majority of Serafina Steer fans describe her to friends, but that’s how this idiosyncratic, talented musician chooses to sell herself at a pre-show panel discussion about women in music. Speaking alongside…
Live | Anais Mitchell @ The Little Theatre, Gateshead
Fresh from a deserved triumph at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Anaïs Mitchell admits she is reticent to play anything from her most recent album – the beautifully adapted traditional folk of Child Ballads – as she feels performing…
Live | Matthew & the Atlas
The way I discovered Matthew & the Atlas was perhaps not the conventional one. Last year they featured on a beautiful little gem entitled ‘Share More Air’, a collaboration between professional songsters and juvenile lyricists from the Ministry of Stories.…
Session | VIDEO: FFS Exclusive with Nathaniel Rateliff
For Folk’s Sake are proud to present an exclusive session with the one and only Nathaniel Rateliff. In timely course, with the imminent release of his second album ‘Falling Faster Than You Can Run‘ (Mod Y Vi Records, Nathaniel kindly…
Live | Villagers @ Heaven
We first saw Villagers at Bestival in 2010, and they were visceral then, all howling and catharsis, but they’ve got a bigger range in their sound now, and the personal feels more political. There are strong electronic beats, LOUD guitars…
Live | The National @ Alexandra Palace
Some bands create a niche for themselves that’s so particular they end up being terribly boring. The furrow The National have ended up in is certainly distinctive, but every earnest, stirring indie rock ballad that comes from it is unmistakably…
Live | Pocktoberfest @ Pocklington Arts Centre
Earlier this year Richard Hawley caused something of a kerfuffle when he revealed he had turned down a slot at Glastonbury because the famous festival had become “meaningless”. For devotees of the Worthy Farm experience this was tantamount to heresy,…
Live | Serafina Steer @ House of St Barnabas, London
An evening curated by Jarvis Cocker was never going to be dull. Hosted in their tiny chapel by the House of St Barnabas, a private members’ club that uses its profits to operate as a charity for the homeless, this…