FFS can exclusively reveal that Andrew Davie (formerly of Cherbourg), Beth Jeans Houghton and Tom Williams & the Boat will play this year’s Camden Crawl. Other folky acts lined up include Sarabeth Tucek – who is supporting the Leisure Society…
The Leisure Society: new album and tour dates
FFS favourites The Leisure Society have announced that their second album ‘Into The Murky Water’, will be released on Monday May 2nd 2011. The band’s first album ‘The Sleeper’ won FFS’s best album poll in 2009. Songwriter Nick Hemming has…
Alessi’s Ark’s new video and free MP3 download
Put two uber-talented 20-year-olds together and what do you get? Well in this case it’s a tricycle-filled music video in which every frame and note is a beaut. Artistic wonderwoman Anika Mottershaw and dream-folk darling Alessi Laurent-Marke got together to…
The Shee
With a self-titled debut and new album Decadence under their belts the individually musically accomplished, largely Scottish, all-woman six-piece seemed worth a listen… Chris Belson: It is said that whenever a group of the beautiful and otherworldly Shee appear to…
Album: Bright Eyes – The People’s Key
If you’re reading this, chances are you aren’t new to the whole Bright Eyes thing. You probably aren’t looking to discover your next musical man-crush. What you want to know is what you always want to know when Conor Oberst…
James Apollo’s top 5 British folk artists
Nomadic Americana artist James Apollo is over in the UK ahead of the release of his second album available to us Brits, ‘Born Lucky’. It’s a compilation spanning his 6-year career. To celebrate his visit to this fair isle, he picked…