Serbian-born Rebel Bran moved to Canada during the Balkan war, and continued to hone a musical sound which has been 20 years in the making. He finally feels it’s ready, so the panel went in to see if they agree.…
Schmercuries interview series: Broadcast 2000?s Joe Steer
Congratulations, you’ve been nominated for a Schmercury. How do you feel? Elated! It’s my first ever award nomination! What did you think of the Mercury nominations this year? As ever with the Mercurys there’s a good spread. It’s the only…
FFS New Bands Panel: Fling
The definition of folk music is increasingly hard to pin down in an age of anti-folk and psych-folk and whatever other folk you care to mention. Fling live in simpler times, playing what folk music used to mean: the music…
Schmercuries interview series: Field Music
Field Music’s incredibly varied album Measure is, in FFS’s humble opinion, the best of their career. So we nominated it for our annual best album prize, the Schmercuries. (There’s still time to vote for your favourite album below.) David Brewis from the band took some time out to answer our questions…
FFS New Bands Panel: Chasing Owls
The people behind Edinburgh’s Chasing Owls have been known to us at For Folk’s Sake for a while now, so it was a clear oversight that we’d not, as yet, given them a proper listen. After all, if the likes…
FFS New Bands Panel: Andrew Butler
Andrew Butler says his music is his “mind in musical form”. The wannabe psychologists on our panel went inside to see if it all made sense. Helen True: This fellow writes exquisite, intricate, romantic songs that swoop and soar about…