To many people, country music has a bad name. Folks don’t like to admit to liking it most of the time. But it has a strong influence in the folk revival that has cheered us all in recent times, so…
Category: New Bands Panel
FFS New Bands Panel: Little Man Lost
Little Man Lost is, he claims, waiting to meet a penguin so he can form a band. In the meantime, he records in his bedroom in Erfurt, Germany, using all manner of fancy toys to produce a sound which is…
FFS New Bands Panel: Just Handshakes (We’re British)
Right off the bat, we can say about this Leeds four-piece that they have the best name of any act the New Bands Panel has yet listened to. But do they have the tunes to match? The panel dives in……
FFS New Bands Panel: Bitter Ruin
Brighton’s Bitter Ruin are made up of vocalist Georgia Train and guitarist Ben Richards, a pair whose apparently turbulent friendship drives the band’s music. They’ve already recorded their second album and are started to garner some more serious attention, so…
FFS New Bands Panel: Blue Sky Archives
Glasgow’s Blue Sky Archives have been thrown together from the remnants of several bands across several musical genres. Folk is only one of their many influences, but as our panel found out, they’re sounding like they might amount to more…
FFS New Bands Panel: Noid
We get all sorts of bands getting in touch with us wanting to be reviewed by the New Bands Panel, but Noid caught us by surprise. It’s not everyday you get asked to take a listen to some old-school Russian…
FFS New Bands Panel: Malpas
Malpas are preparing to unleash their brand of electro-bluegrass on this summer’s festivals with dates lined up for the Isle of Wight, Blissfields, Off the Cuff, The Bard’s Party and the Moseley Folk Festival. Before they do, the New Bands…
FFS New Bands Panel: Michael Chaney
Newcastle singer-songwriter Michael Chaney is the latest artist to come before our New Bands Panel, who took a listen to his first handful of songs on his myspace page. Louis Gilbert: Singer-songwriter blues afflict this young man from Newcastle. Yearning…
FFS New Bands Panel: Jason Ward
West Virginia’s Jason Ward is releasing his latest single “Bless You” as a free digital download backed by “Dark In Here”. Our New Band Panel has taken a listen to both that and tracks from his last EP, Graceful Bow,…
FFS New Bands Panel: Matthew Kilford
Singer/songwriter Matthew Kilford has been creating a strong buzz in his native Oxfordshire for some time now, and the word is spreading, not least thanks to gigs with the likes of Andy Yorke, Dawn Kinnard, Seth Lakeman and also The…