Some kind soul (/pirate) has put the Mumford & Sons limited edition EP that they recorded as The Wedding Band up on YouTube. It features the Mumford boys wuth Nick Etwell, Callum Lindsay, Jesse Quin, Adam Stockdale and David Williamson. Listen here. >> Mumford & Sons website | Jesse Quin’s band Mt. Desolation ....
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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...
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Kev Jones and Ben Lovett met way back in 2006 through mutual friends and for a while played in a band together. They founded the London Clubnight, Communion in 2007 and since then Ben has become better-known as Mumford & Sons‘ keyboard player and producer to acts such as Peggy Sue, Jay Jay Pistolet,...
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So pretty much the only miserable thing about Christmas is that when it ends you have to wait a whole year for the next one. The clever people of Camden's Flowerpot have thought long and hard about this and come up with a frankly miraculous way to welcome in 2010 and take the...
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Davie's headline slot at Hoxton Bar and Grill on Monday was a transition between Cherbourg and his new solo career. The six Cherbourg tracks he performed were in their original arrangements, which perhaps suggests that he doesn't plan to take them any further.
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Cherbourg's ex-frontman Andrew Davie has told FFS that the band "is no more". Davie said it became obvious that the four members — himself, Chris Maas, Kev Jones and Phil Fiddle — found that they wanted different things from the band. He said: "I can't see us as a four playing together again... At...
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Cherbourg's Andrew Davie is to play a solo show in Hoxton on 16th November in the first of four days of gigs curated by Levi's One to Watch. Hoxton Bar and Kitchen will be taken over from Monday 16th Novemeber to Thursday 19th, when a parallel gig will take place at Cargo.
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FFS favourites Cherbourg have announced they are to release two brand new songs in October.
New tune 'No More Flowers' will be released on 5th October in a special case designed by the band and features B-side 'Don't Let The Sun Steal You Away'.
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Despite the venue being a small town pub, the atmosphere for the evening’s show is excellent. After the obligatory local bands The Agitator, Derek Meins’ and Robert Dylan Thomas’ new project, take to the stage. Right from the outset the duo amaze any new listeners present, making a fair few of them jump on...
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Communion has announced a corker of a line-up for its first festival. The London – and now Brighton – night organised by Kev Jones of Cherbourg and Ben Lovett of Mumford and Sons, has curated a folk stage at Bloom in Bristol.
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