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Exclusive | Alela Diane reveals video for ‘The Wind’

2 November 2011
By Lynn Roberts
Exclusive | Alela Diane reveals video for ‘The Wind’

We’re very excited to be able to bring you the beautiful new video for Alela Diane’s song ‘The Wind’. The song, which Alela wrote after a friend of hers was tragically murdered, has an inevitable darkness that is reflected in the video, shot and directed by Jason Reid and Darren Lund. Alela explains: “Following...
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Live | Alela Diane @ St Panras Old Church, 06/10/11

26 October 2011
By Helen True
Live | Alela Diane @ St Panras Old Church, 06/10/11

Seated on high-backed wooden chairs like the kings and queens of Narnia in Cair Paravel, Alela Diane and her Wild Divine hold court from the dais at St Pancras Old Church.  Flanked by her husband and her father (both called Tom), Diane preaches to the long-converted with sincerity, wit and gentle artistry, and FFS...
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Editor’s picks… Johnny Flynn, Broadcast 2000, Anni Rossi, Alela Diane, Caitlin Rose, Mara Carlyle

30 June 2011
By Lynn Roberts
Editor’s picks… Johnny Flynn, Broadcast 2000, Anni Rossi, Alela Diane, Caitlin Rose, Mara Carlyle

Johnny Flynn free EP & Amazon session, Broadcast 2000's Regina Spektor cover, How Caitlin Rose wrote Own Side Now, Free Anni Rossi download, Nick Hemming's hit-making guitar, We <3 Mara Carlyle, Snoop round Alela Diane's pad.
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Tags: Alela Diane, Anni Rossi, Broadcast 2000, Caitlin Rose, Johnny Flynn, Mara Carlyle, The Leisure Society
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Album: Alela Diane & Wild Divine

12 May 2011
By Helen True
Album: Alela Diane & Wild Divine

Filigree-wearing femmes, gun-toters and life stories in three minutes are staples of country music that FFS adores, and Alela Diane’s third studio album has served to deepen our adoration.  As if we needed any help. Her rich, clear vocals are like blue glass, curving through this expertly-composed 10-track album with more grace and poise than...
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Alela Diane & Wild Divine – 3rd album due in April

31 January 2011
By Lynn Roberts
Alela Diane & Wild Divine – 3rd album due in April

It’s all go on the albums-to-look-forward-to front today, as Rough Trade announces the release of Alela Diane’s 3rd album, intruguingly named ‘Alela Diane & Wild Divine’, on 4th April. Alela wrote the album on the road in 2009 and finished it in 2010 with her husband and guitarist Tom Bevitori. She recorded it with...
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Blog: For Folk’s Sake Radio – if you don’t like lovely, you won’t like this

30 November 2010
By Lynn Roberts
Blog: For Folk’s Sake Radio – if you don’t like lovely, you won’t like this

On Sunday I popped down to London Fields Radio to record the first ever FFS radio show in a cafe against a background of the clatter of crockery and the hum of Hackney-ites chatting. There’ll be a monthly-or-thereabouts show from now on, with the next one being probably the most Christmassy radio show of...
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Tags: Alela Diane, Dan Mangan, Emily & the Woods, First Aid Kit, Laura Marling, Mountain Goats, Nancy Elizabeth, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sea of Bees, The Leisure Society
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Live: Divine Comedy / Alela Diane Duo: Salle Pleyel Webcast, Paris

11 July 2010
By Lynn Roberts
Live: Divine Comedy / Alela Diane Duo: Salle Pleyel Webcast, Paris

I don’t know if this really counts as a live review, even though I watched it live. I suppose that is the only dilemma with the webcast, as everything else about it seems to be brilliant. They’ve become something of a trend recently, and being a student a free gig you can watch from...
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Brian’s Mixtape #27: Hot to Trot

15 March 2010
By Helen True
Brian’s Mixtape #27: Hot to Trot

Following last week’s shameful booze-fuelled fiasco, Brian’s plunged like a lead balloon into a pit of depression so deep and wide that it’s been necessary to rescue him from his slum of a nest and reinstall him (temporarily, we hope) in a cosy shoebox at FFS HQ.  This way we can keep an eye...
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Tags: Alela Diane, Isobel Campbell & Mark Laneghan, Kimya Dawson, Nick Drake, The Divine Comedy
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Brian’s mixtape #24: Because We Want To

22 February 2010
By Brian
Brian’s mixtape #24: Because We Want To

Readers, we’re a little worried. After his absence a couple of weeks ago, Brian’s been acting a bit strangely. He used to be such a lovely tidy, polite owl but now Brian’s stomping about like a petulant teenager, his roost is an absolute shambles and he’s taken to shouting “boring” whenever he loses interest...
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Tags: Alela Diane, Amadou & Mariam, Belle & Sebastian, Eels, Field Music, Jackson C. Frank, Joni Mitchell, Regina Spektor, Stars, The Band
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EP: Alela Diane and Alina Hardin — Alela & Alina

27 October 2009
By Lynn Roberts

When this collaboration between Alela Diane and her touring companion Alina Hardin opens with ‘Amidst the Movement’, one of Diane’s trademark gutsy folk songs that defies you not to join in with its sing-along chorus, it’s easy to think this EP is merely a supplement to her well-received album To Be Still. It soon...
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