by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Live | Tom Brosseau @ The Albion Beatnik, Oxford
Space, place, and time clearly matter to Tom Brosseau. That is why the Albion Beatnik was a fitting space for his thoughtful and gentle performance on the 22nd of October. The Oxford bookstore describes itself as “enthusiastic” and “eclectic”, and…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Live | The Divine Comedy @ St George’s Hall, Bristol
Tonight’s performance from The Divine Comedy is one of two halves or, at least, two costumes. The first outfit that Neil Hannon sports is the bowler-hatted businessman, complete with folded umbrella and starched white shirt. Consistent with the outfit Hannon…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Live | Stars Of The Lid @ The Lantern, Bristol
As a green 17-year-old I attended an interview for a place at university. Noting Maths and English were among my A levels the interviewer asked, “Have you found any common ground between science and art?” Had I been aware of…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Live | Oro Valley Music Festival, Day 2 (2016)
This year at the Oro Valley Music Festival, rain may have fallen, but it wasn’t to the detriment of concert-goers. In some ways, it added to the experience, never growing harsh enough to shut down any sets and adding an…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Live | Mogwai @ Coventry Cathedral
Although June’s show in Hiroshima perhaps pipped it, filmmaker Mark Cousins and Mogwai couldn’t have chosen a better setting for the screening of Atomic, Living In Dread And Promise than Coventry Cathedral, which was decimated by Nazi airstrikes in 1940…
by Duncan Martin • • Comments Off on Live | For Folk’s Sake @ #Blogtober Preview
The good people at Lost In The Manor are running a month-long festival under the banner #Blogtober. This will feature live music every night in October at The Finsbury in London, with each night curated by a different music blog…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Live | Together The People 2016
Together the People festival returned to Brighton’s Preston Park on 3rd and 4th September for its second year. The Saturday began with some high pitched children’s entertainment on the main stage, which we consciously avoided. Instead, we made our way…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Live | Dan Owen @ St. Pancras Old Church, London
On a warm September evening we entered the beautiful and intimate confines of St Pancras Old Church. Here we were greeted by Irish singer-songwriter Eve Belle who kicked off the night with her lyrically driven whispy tones, alongside the gentle…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Live | Sineater Festival 2016
As you climb the alpine track of the Long Mynde with its dizzying falls and narrow necks and descend into the soft dripping vale where nestles the parish of Rattlinghope, time rests its feet in slumber and the days turn…
by Dominic J Stevenson • • Comments Off on Live | AnnenMayKantereit @ Spandau, Berlin
Allow me to introduce the band… AnnenMayKantereit is a young German rock band, THE hope of German music perhaps. The band is already very popular, in no small part due to the singer Mr. Henning May’s distinctively rough vocals, and…