Referring to her work as ‘Future Folk’, Folly Rae has been making a splash with new single, ‘Free Your Mind’, an eerie, other-worldly, but ultimately positive number. We caught up with this flame-haired dreamer to get the low-down. Hello, please…
Category: Interviews
Interview | FFS talks to emerging Canadian artist, Anna Scouten
Anna Scouten is a young and extremely talented singer-songwriter from Canada. A mesmerising performer with a beautiful voice, she has steadily built up a strong following on YouTube and, if the songs recorded in her bedroom are anything to go…
Interview | Alessi comes full circle – FFS favourite, Alessi’s Ark, on new album The Still Life
Here at FFS we’ve been super fans of Alessi’s Ark – aka Alessi Laurent-Marke – since the very beginning. We should probably have a badge or something. We first caught wind of Alessi when she was a whip of a…
Interview | Introducing…Evening Hymns
Similarities between Evening Hymns and Bon Iver are abundant. On the recently released Spectral Dusk, sonic layers build over muted, military beats and the beauty is in each carefully crafted detail. The record was even recorded in a log cabin…
Interview | Introducing…Hoshal Patrick
Strictly speaking, we’ve already introduced Hoshal Patrick, the delightfully dreamy duo with the air of a very chilled-out Smiths about them – check out the very favourable reviews from our New Bands Panel. Find out a bit more about the boys…
Interview | Alasdair Roberts on foundlings, the carnivalesque and becoming more Scottish
London’s Foundling Museum is full of intriguing artefacts. “Some of these things you’d think only existed in folk songs. But here they are in real, palpable things,” we are told before the first of the museum’s new, monthly folk nights.…
Interview | Nick Hemming of the Leisure Society
The Leisure Society released their third album Alone Aboard the Ark at the beginning of this month. After a short stint in Europe, they’re about to complete their UK tour with a sold out show at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. FFS had a chat with songwriter and frontman Nick Hemming…
Interview | Nick Hemming of the Leisure Society (part 2)
The Leisure Society’s songwriter Nick Hemming on his inspiration, the ‘lost decade’ and album number four.
Interview | The Slow Ascent – FFS talks to long-running British folkers, Spiro
Spiro are Jane Harbour (violin, viola), Jon Hunt (acoustic guitar, cello), Jason Sparkes (accordion) and Alex Vann (mandolin). Their bewitching, unconventional brand of folk draws powerfully on a fascinating array of both contemporary and traditional influences. Mesmeric, often frenzied, Spiro’s masterpieces take…
Interview | Introducing…Gavin James
Having spent much of the last three years playing residencies in Dublin pubs – our idea of heaven, really – Gavin James is now sharing his prodigious talent with the rest of the world. Debut EP, Say Hello, entered the Irish iTunes…