For Folk’s Sake’s Becky Varley Winter watched Du Bellows, Blushing Melons and Richard Lamy’s a Disgrace at The Workshop, London, and was amazed by various pleasantries including Austrian goth-folk, soulful folk blues and one incredible moustache. Read her review of this live show, which took place on 16th July 2012.
Category: Reviews
Album | Dollboy – Further Excursions Into The Ulu With Dollboy
Dollboy is the extravagantly bearded Oliver Cherer, formerly of Cooler, armed with a synthesizer alongside a host of more “traditional”, “folky” instruments. He has been performing under this moniker since the late 1990s and released two instrumental albums – including…
Live | JD McPherson @ Dingwalls, 11/07/12
After shaking Londoner’s awake following an infamous gig at the Wheelbarrow earlier this year, JD McPherson is set to play what is to be yet another awakening gig in Camden’s very own Dingwalls. On the first of what feel’s like…
Live | Lach: Up the Anti!
The title of Lach’s show at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe embodies his philosophy not just towards music but arts and culture in their broadest sense: Up the Anti! The founder of The Fort, an early home to the ragtag bunch…
Live | Dark Dark Dark @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
They’re not always nice or easy, but there’s no question we’ve been treated to some fantastic break-up albums over the past couple of years. Noah & The Whale’s The First Days of Spring, Josh T. Pearson’s The Last of the…
Album | Bard – The Springtime Fool
London is so hot right now. Seriously, it’s stifling. What you need is some perfect summer folk pop, right? How about local boys and girls Bard and their debut album The Springtime Fool? This is beautiful summery stuff, with tunes…
Listen | Dark Dark Dark’s ‘How It Went Down’
Two years on from the beautiful Wild Go, Dark Dark Dark will return in October with their third full-length albm Who Needs Who. Since we last heard from them, singer Nona Marie Invie and the band’s co-founder Marshall LaCount have…
Singles Round-up | James Yorkston, Kyla La Grange, Cellophane Flowers, Shambles Miller
James Yorkston- Border Song James Yorkston may be a folk musician but on this song he shows his early punk background. The words spill out as fast as he can manage to spit them. This isn’t pastoral folk, this is…
Album | The Big Eyes Family Players & Friends – Folk Songs II
Much of what we welcome under the banner of folk music would have rejected the tag in the not-too-distant past, preferring instead to go by acoustic or indie or nu-something-or-other. The Big Eyes Family Players, though, are folk through and…
Compilation | Just Tell Me That You Want Me – A Fleetwood Mac Tribute
For a band with such an inspirational back catalogue, it is a crying shame that many of the young generations would not know ‘Tusk’ or ‘Go Your Own Way’ unless it appeared on an episode of Glee or Geordie Shore…