There’s something quite exciting brewing in the London folk scene, Laura Marling, Noah and the Whale and Johnny Flynn have hit the big time and by doing so they’ve blazed a path for their contemporaries to do the same. Cherbourg are the latest band to emerge from the pack, and they’re not afraid to admit that they want to be a household name.
For Folk’s Sake Interview: It’s only Laura Marling!
FFS caught up with Laura Marling for a quick chat ahead of the Portsmouth leg of her Night Terror tour to talk about her US sojourn and being lied about by the papers.
Live Review: Jeremy Warmsley @ Hoxton Bar and Kitchen, October 20th 2008
With a genealogy that straddles the Channel and a musical career which already spans multiple locations and genres, Jeremy Warmsley seemed perfectly at home in this splendid little venue in ‘trendy’ Hoxton.
Live review: Martin Carthy @ The Croft, Bristol, November 3rd 2008
I don’t like cricket, I love it. I think most people would call me a purist: not for me the crash and bluster of Twenty20, I prefer the slower, careful rhythm of a full test match. Apparently, I’m not a purist in everything though. If I have to listen to one more song about a bloody maiden and her dead son in a wood I shall scream long and loud.
For Folk’s Sake Interview: Stars Of Sunday League
Edinburgh’s Euan Robinson, going by his Stars Of Sunday League moniker, gives one of the most modest and self-deprecating interviews in the history of folk.
For Folk’s Sake Interview: Micah P Hinson
For Folk’s Sake’s Mark Williamson caught up with Micah P Hinson before his Glasgow show this weekend to talk about his his album Red Empire Orchestra, shoddy journalism and his lack of balls