About us For Folk’s Sake is a new website run by two music-loving writers from London. We aim to bring you news, reviews, listings and interviews with your favourite folk-influenced artists from London as well as tidbits from around the…
Slow Club extravaganza at Union Chapel this Xmas
Slow Club have announced a Christmas show at the Union Chapel in London.
For Folk’s Sake Interview: Jay Jay Pistolet
Jay Jay Pistolet met FFS in a park in Shoreditch. Neither of us had the right haircut, but Mr Pistolet was a cracking interviewee and revealed that his housemate, a certain Marcus Mumford Esquire, likes to email randoms on Myspace.
Wave Power: The Wave Pictures announce green EP
Bethnal Green balladeers set to make forthcoming EP low carbon release
EP Review: Slow Club – Let’s Fall Back in Love
Fall in love with the Sheffield two-piece’s plaintive, stomping, heartfelt debut.
Album Review: Tindersticks – The Hungry Saw
The turns they took to get here have been circuitous indeed (via Nottingham and Limousin, no less), but Tindersticks’ first album in five years feels, in many ways, as exciting as a first release. A pared-down return to the original three-man line up of Stuart A. Staples, David Boulter and Neil Fraser is, paradoxically, indicative of the sea change that the band’s lengthy hiatus has brought about.