If there was any justice in the music industry, Conrad Lambert – AKA Merz – would be weighing in at the top of every Best of 2013 list. That’s not to diminish his very real achievements over the years, which…
Patch & the Giant open For Folk’s Sake it’s Christmas 2013 with their rousing version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen. The band’s accordion player Angie Rance answered our questions and roped in fiddle player Gabe and bassist Ed too.
Worry Dolls – the duo formed by former solo artists Rosie Jones and Zoe Nichol – are London gig circuit favourites. They wrote Coming Home for For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2013. Rosie answered our festive questions…
Left with Pictures donated ‘The Coldest Night’ to our Christmas album this year. We ask Stu Barter about his idea of a perfect Christmas.
London-based Emperor Yes are Ash Gardner, Hugo Sheppard and Adam Betts. Their music revolves around themes of science fiction and psychedelic pop. We asked them to record the closing track for our record, and the result was the Time Frog…
With a new single out in January and a debut album on the horizon, we thought it was about time we caught up with Paul Thomas Saunders. Once very much a fixture of the Leeds scene, Saunders has moved to…
We are absolutely delighted to have a song from Oxford gents Stornoway on this year’s Christmas record. Gondwanaland is a beautifully wistful track about a chance encounter on an icy day. We spoke to Stornoway’s bass player Oli Steadman about…
With such a sophisticated and varied back catalogue, Patty Griffin sounds like she’s been writing and performing her whole life. In fact, she only begun her career as an artist in the early nineties, recording her heartfelt, country-tinged debut, Living…
Nicki Bluhm is no stranger to touring life, having completed an epic, 200-date, US tour as part of Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers in 2013. This October saw the San Francisco 6-piece shrunk to three for their first ever European…
Hello, please introduce yourself and your music to the uninitiated. Hi, my name is Roo, and I guess my music is as good an introduction to me as I could hope to write. I would imagine my music would be described…