by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Video Premiere | Yvonne McDonnell – I’m Not This Layer of Skin
Empowerment is the theme of Yvonne McDonnell’s upcoming EP Not Her Own, something which is certainly evident on opening track ‘I’m Not This Layer of Skin’ – a song inspired by Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem ‘The Lady of Shalott’. McDonnell’s…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere | Watching for Foxes’ new single ‘Undone Bird’
FFS is delighted to bring you the premiere to Watching for Foxes’ new single ‘Undone Bird’. With an album of the same name releasing just around the corner on June 10, the Grand Rapids-based quintet’s frontman, Joey Frendo, has this…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Competition | Win tickets to Platform Festival
Pockinton (about 13 miles east of York) is the host for Platform Festival, running over 4 days from the 12th to 16th July. Held indoors in an old railway station, the festival features a number of FFS favourites, opening with…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Video Premiere | Lost Left – Thank You For The Lung
It’s not often we have a video premiere for a band that is no longer together, but we’re not letting precedent get in the way of this. The Lost Left are, no, were Ben Pritchard (vocals, guitar), Bobby Crawford (drums)…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Video Premiere | Jasmine Rodgers – Icicles
As the daughter of a Japanese poet and Free/Bad Company/Queen vocalist Paul Rodgers, it’s no surprise that music pours out of Jasmine Rodgers. She spent the early 2000s performing and recording with Boa after joining her brother’s band, and has…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Record Store Day | Shopping Guide K-Z
In case you hadn’t gathered, Saturday is Record Store Day. The A-J section of our pick of the 500+ special releases is here, and now for the rest of the alphabet. All those caveats about the prices being a guide…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Record Store Day | Shopping Guide A-J
Have you done your homework ahead of Record Store Day? With more than 500 releases on their way this Saturday there is a mass of stuff to get your teeth into, but if you’re running out of time before heading…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Competition | Win tickets to see Laish in London
Danny Green’s songwriter project, Laish, are performing a rare seven-piece band launch show at London’s excellent Sebright Arms on 21st April to celebrate the release of an EP we described as “13 minutes of perfection“. Support comes from the honey-voiced…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Session premiere | Sam Jordan & The Dead Boys – Sister
The first thing that strikes you is Sam Jordan’s incredible voice. We could waste time comparing his rich baritone with some other outstanding crooners, but we’re wagering that if we wait a little while he’ll become a reference point himself.…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Premiere | Long Tall Jefferson – Pharaoh
Long Tall Jefferson has taken a long road to delivering his debut album. Described as a ‘wanderer by trade’, he’s collected the songs which make up I Want My Honey Back during travels which have seen him living in Berlin,…