Hello, please introduce yourself and your music to the uninitiated. The Fallows are a Midlands/London-based band. We play foot-stomping country folk laced with Celtic fiddle with a rock attitude. We’ve been compared to the Avett brothers/the Levellers and the Waterboys…
Category: Interviews
Interview | Filling time with Piano Magic’s Glen Johnson
For a band that have been going since 1996, released 11 albums and scored the soundtrack for a film, you might be forgiven for never having heard of Piano Magic. Initially conceived as a purely studio project, an initial disinclination…
Interview | Introducing….Correatown
Los Angeles-based Angela Correa, aka Correatown, describes her music as a boozy bourbon pecan pie. Debut album, Spark. Burn. Fade, was certainly a sweet, leisurely, folk-pop treat that put us in mind of raindrops on mittens and roses on kittens…
Interview | Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman – FFS speaks to the first lady and gentleman of folk…
If folk were to have anything as bourgeois as a hierarchy, husband and wife duo Sean Lakeman and Kathryn Roberts might be prime candidates for the top spots. Initially part of folk super-group, Equation (also featuring Seth and Sam Lakeman…
Interview | Plans and pork pies with Alberta Cross
Alberta Cross are a band who have certainly earned their place on the main stages. Touring extensively with artists such as Oasis, Them Crooked Vultures and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Petter Ericson Stakee and Terry Wolfers are about to follow…
Interview | Introducing House of Hats with video premiere for ‘This Love’
Brighton four-piece House of Hats are due to return with their second EP, Rivers Will Run, this September but their debut self-titled collection from last December isn’t done winning them new fans yet. The band have just released a new…
Interview | Introducing…Melodica Melody and Me
Hello, please introduce yourself and your music to the uninitiated. We are Melodica Melody and Me, a four-piece band from South London pioneering the charango and melodica. We play folk music with Latin American influences and sound as fresh as…
Interview | Exciting Times – FFS talk to latest folk-pop sensation, BOY
Contrary to what their name might suggest, BOY are Valeska Steiner and Sonja Glass, whose hand-clapping pop hit ‘Little Numbers’ attracted almost 5 million views on YouTube. Falling somewhere between Feist and the sweeter side of Regina Spector, BOY write…
Interview | Still fighting the good fight after 25 years – FFS talks to the Levellers
For many of us on the unfavourable side of 30, the Levellers defined the protest landscape of the 1990’s. After the relatively apathetic 80’s, they were an electric shock to the faltering musical protest movement – a group of angry…
Interview | Introducing…The Resident Cards
Long-time readers of For Folk’s Sake and the New Bands Panel should remember the name of Erica Buettner, the Paris-based American who charmed us so in 2010 and then returned last year with a full-length album True Love And Water.…