Author: For Folk's Sake

Album: Josh Ritter – So Runs the World Away.

Josh Ritter’s latest album ‘So Runs the World Away’ has taken almost two years to make — it’s an ambitious and wordy offering but don’t let that put you off. You’ll enjoy following the twisting narrative of this scholarly poet.…

Live: Communion Launch @ The Cellars, Oxford

Communion, a club night and record label set up by Kevin Jones (formerly of Cherbourg) and Ben Lovett (of Mumford & Sons), was originally intended to promote upcoming musicians in the London circuit. This launch saw its grasps expanding to…

Live: Blonde Redhead @ Shepherd’s Bush Empire

Setting the scene for this evening was Londoner Porcelain Raft, whose charmingly low-fi dreamy sound paved the way for the main event -revered art-rockers, Blonde Redhead. The band came on to the stage in a wash of copper orange and…

Album: Timber Timbre — Timber Timbre

Taylor Kirk’s one man folk project Timber Timbre has just seen its first UK release with his self-titled eight-track album. With his early recordings made in a timber-framed cabin à la Bon Iver, the Canadian artist builds around core themes…

Interview: Jamie Ley

Emerging from London’s seemingly never-ending and ever-talented pool of wonderful folksy-types, Jamie Ley has been packing out a variety of the capital’s venues with people, all eager to hear his soulful and timeless tunes. Emma Barlow caught up with him…

Festival: Bestival 2010

As an Isle of Wight native, I’ve seen Bestival grow from a small, sparky young thing in 2004 to the vast, fiery dragon it is today. I worried that my favourite festival was about to grow so big that it…

Blog: The Seven Inch Cull by Darren Hayman

The Seven Inch record is a sacred Rubicon on the rock’n’roll trail; a talisman that represents all that is tiny, tight and teenage; pop music distilled into a perfect, plastic artifact that can never be denied as the only format…