‘Syd Barrett with a harp’ isn’t quite how the majority of Serafina Steer fans describe her to friends, but that’s how this idiosyncratic, talented musician chooses to sell herself at a pre-show panel discussion about women in music. Speaking alongside…
Hello, please introduce yourself and your music to the uninitiated. Hello, my name is Andrea Tomasi. Lately I have been thinking about my music as a reorientation of energy. I will feel a certain energy, and need a way to…
Fresh from a deserved triumph at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Anaïs Mitchell admits she is reticent to play anything from her most recent album – the beautifully adapted traditional folk of Child Ballads – as she feels performing…
Look At What You Can’t Have Now from Darren Hayman on Vimeo. Apparently, after Darren Hayman recruited Standard Fare’s Emma Kupa for his new song ‘Look At What You Can’t Have Now’, they decided that the record should sound like…
Bookshelves by Jess Hall ‘Maps’ is taken from Bookshelves, the debut album from songbird Jess Hall. Although she now calls Oxford home, she hails from North Devon, and it is that region’s famed coastline which gives her so much of…
Happy International Women’s Day! If you’re not sure how to celebrate, just be pleased about how fantastically witty, current and alive feminism is in 2014, and watch the shiftiest-looking escaped tiger you’re ever likely to see prowl around a circus…