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Features

Schmercury Poll interview series: Anais Mitchell

Schmercury Poll interview series: Anais Mitchell

Anais Mitchell’s Hadestown absolutely blew us away when it was released this year. It’s a folk opera based on the story of Eurydice and Orpheus feauring performances by Justin Vernon of Bon Iver as Orpheus, Greg Brown as Hades, Ani DiFranco as Persephone and the Haden Triplets. What’s more I feel pretty confident in...
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Tags: Anais Mitchell, Schmercuries 2010
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Preview: Beatnik @ The Macbeth, Hoxton

Preview: Beatnik @ The Macbeth, Hoxton

Beatnik is a monthly event at The Macbeth in Hoxton, featuring a free rooftop barbeque, puppet-making, hula-hooping, open mic, vintage DJ-ing and fine folk. It’s the brainchild of singer-songwriter Russell Swallow, writer of warm, Romantic songs like a draught of vintage. Having encountered such delights as Tommy Antonio and Perennial Company and Hope...
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Tags: Laura Hocking, Nick Drake
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Schmercury Awards 2010: Shortlist announced

Schmercury Awards 2010: Shortlist announced

Not one to be left out of all this Mercury spoofing, FFS is delighted to announce this year’s Schmercury Awards shortlist. We had such a hard time whittling all the fantastic albums released this year down to just 12 that we had to have a sit down with some tea and Belle & Sebastian...
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Tags: Anais Mitchell, Broadcast 2000, Caitlin Rose, Cocos Lovers, Fanfarlo, Field Music, Laura Marling, Midlake, Mountain Man, Noah & the Whale, Peggy Sue, Schmercuries 2010, Sea of Bees
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Communion take over the Flowerpot: days 1 and 2

Communion take over the Flowerpot: days 1 and 2

The record label and clubnight Communion is hosting a series of exciting (and free) gigs at the Kentish Town venue the Flowerpot this week. And as well as the evenings’ entertainments, the upstairs venue has become a temporary studio for the bands to lay down collaborations. The resulting studio sessions and live tracks will...
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Tags: Angus & Julia Stone, Kill it Kid, Lissie, Marcus Foster, Matthew & the Atlas, Mt Desolation, Mumford & Sons, Sarah Blasko, The Joker & the Thief
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For Folk’s Sake Interview: Pete Roe

For Folk’s Sake Interview: Pete Roe

Pete Roe is a decent man. He’s got dignity all over. You discover that the moment you listen to his music, influenced by the right and wrong doings of his close friends, the world, the simplicity of nature and the moral principles infused in him. You also discover that the...
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Tags: Pete Roe
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Profile: Ben Phillips, artist for Peggy Sue, Alessi and Rachael Dadd

Profile: Ben Phillips, artist for Peggy Sue, Alessi and Rachael Dadd

We came across Ben Phillips through his intriguing artwork on Peggy Sue’s releases. But his involvement with the London folk crowd doesn’t stop there. The Camberwell-based artist has been prolific over the past few years, providing artwork and posters for Daniel Johnston, Rachael Dadd and Alessi’s Ark. We got in touch with him over...
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Tags: Alessi's Ark, Daniel Johnston, Jeffrey Lewis, Peggy Sue, Rachael Dadd
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Laura Marling on Joni Mitchell

Laura Marling on Joni Mitchell

We know Joni Mitchell Week was last week, but we’ve just had this submission from one Laura Marling, who’s been busy galavanting all over the States, and we just couldn’t leave it out. Laura’s said on many occasions that Joni’s a big influence, having been introduced to Joni’s records by her music-loving father....
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Tags: Joni Mitchell, Laura Marling
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Kirsty McGee on Joni Mitchell

Kirsty McGee on Joni Mitchell

It had been a hard and gratifying spring. I was all lean muscle and mudstains after months of climbing trees at the Manchester airport protest camp and feeling good from all the fresh air, living in benders, hitching, cooking outdoors and dangling from blue polyprop. I’d helped build treehouses, had ...
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Tags: Joni Mitchell
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Why I love Joni Mitchell: Diane Cluck, Louis Gilbert, Ciara McPolin, Katie Carroll, FFS’s dad

Why I love Joni Mitchell: Diane Cluck, Louis Gilbert, Ciara McPolin, Katie Carroll, FFS’s dad

US anti-folk legend Diane Cluck says: “I’ve never covered any Joni Mitchell songs, but I’ve enjoyed singing ‘Help Me’ since I was a kid in the 70s.  The melody was swooping and fun to sing, and I imagined whoever was singing it was the gentle sort of man I could fall in love with....
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Tags: Diane Cluck, Joni Mitchell, The Dufflefolks
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The Folk Artist Twitter Directory

Below is our attempt at a comprehensive directory of folk artists currently on Twitter – of course, we aren’t Twitter deities and as such will almost certainly have missed out on certain artists. Let us know if you can think of any tweeting folk musicians in the comments below. Akron/Family Angus and Julia Stone Asthmatic Kitty (Label) Au...
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Tags: Akron Family, Angus and Julia Stone, Au Revoir Simone, Avett Brothers, Belle & Sebastian, Beth Jeans Houghton, Blitzen Trapper, Blue Roses, Bon Iver, Broadcast 2000, Caitlin Rose, Cherbourg, Damien Rice, Efterklang, Emmy The Great, Fanfarlo, First Aid Kit, Great Lake Swimmers, Jenny Lewis, Jeremy Warmsley, Jon Hopkins, kristin hersh, Kurran & the Wolfnotes, Laura Marling, Left With Pictures, Liam Frost, Lightspeed Champion, Lisa Hannigan, Lisa Mitchell, Lissie, Local Natives, Midlake, Monsters of Folk, Owen Pallett, Peggy Sue, Rufus Wainwright, She & Him, Slow Club, St Vincent, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, The Decemberists, The Divine Comedy, The Leisure Society, The Living Sisters, The Low Anthem, The New Pornographers, The Watson Twins, Theoretical Girl, Tunng, Villagers, Wilco, Wild Beasts, Woodpigeon, Wye Oak
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