Tag: Kathryn Williams

Album | Polly Paulusma – Invisible Music

Invisible Music: folk songs that influenced Angela Carter is a literary, clever, erudite, elegantly crafted offering from Polly Paulusma. We are presented with a cornucopia rich in poetic images, harmonies and delightful performances. Interspersed with extracts from Angela Carter’s sublime…

Premiere | Kathryn Williams’ new single ‘Mirrors’

FFS is delighted to bring you the video premiere for Kathryn Williams new single ‘Mirrors’. Due for released on 8th July, ‘Mirrors’ is the first single from Kathryn’s Sylvia Plath-inspired album Hypoxia. The album is based on Plath’s novel The…

#463 Kathryn Williams – Dancing in the Dark

The brilliant Kathryn Williams has been a favourite at FFS for years and years. From her Mercury-nominated second record, to last year’s captivating album Crown Electric and her delightfully lugubrious Christmas song ‘Christmas In Hell‘, we thought we couldn’t love her more.…

News | Kathryn Williams says Spotify is ‘Starbucks of music’

Folk star Kathryn Williams hit out at Spotify this morning, calling the music streaming service the ‘Starbucks of music’. Kathryn’s comments on twitter were in response to an episode of Radio 4 programme In Business about the music industry. Listen here. She…

Live | Kathryn Williams, Nick Mulvey and Raevennan Husbandes at The Society of the Golden Slippers

It’s Monday evening and we find ourselves shoulder-to-shoulder with an invite-only crowd, in a gorgeous, Georgian townhouse, hot under the collar and eagerly awaiting three carefully handpicked musicians to show us what they’re made of…It can only be another Society…

Album | The Pond – The Pond

I saw Kathryn Williams live in the summer of 2009 at Stockton-on-Tees’ wonderful free festival. The Futureheads had just finished an excellent main stage set, finishing in signature fashion by splitting the crowd down the middle to sing the harmonies…

News | Kathryn Williams to return as a member of The Pond

Kathryn Williams will return with a new album in May that promises to be a departure from her earlier work. Williams has teamed up with Simon Edwards and Ginny Clee to form “The Pond”, which is described as, er, a…