Just over a year ago, Darren Hayman embarked on an ambitious songwriting project – a new song every day for a whole month, original compositions – written, recorded and online by midnight or he’d turn into a pumpkin and calamity would ensue. Okay, probably not the last bit, but it was still a pretty...
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FFS’s have whole-heartedly resolved to help you see more magnificent music in 2012, and what better time to start than the middle of January? This Saturday, the beautiful Cecil Sharp House will play host to two acts we rate very highly indeed (both were Schmercury Award nominees in 2009) and there are still tickets...
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First of all, MERRY CHRISTMAS FOLK FANS! I hope you’re reading this full up and content. Secondly, I’d like to say an enormous thank you to everyone who has contributed to, bought and supported For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2011. It’s been brilliant. We’re so stoked to have so many of our favourite bands...
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In need of a last-minute Christmas present for a music lover? We’ve made the cover of our festive compilation album For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2011 available to download so you can make your own copies. Here’s the plan… 1. Go to www.forfolkssake.bandcamp.com and download For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2011 for a bargainous £5. (All...
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Our charity compilation, For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2011, featuring original tracks from loads of our favourite artists was released a couple of weeks ago. The physical copies are close to selling out so we wanted to show you, our lovely readers, just how nice they are so you don’t miss your chance… The...
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The Christmas album comes with all sorts of pitfalls in which to fall headfirst or to stand in proudly, arms akimbo. Even the most earnest of performers can put out some jingly-jangly tune to suit the season of merriment. But the best Christmas records to my mind are the ones that, although the seasonal...
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Hefner frontman Darren Hayman is a man of many projects. In January it was writing, recording and releasing a song a day, this summer an EP and art exhibition about dogs and people in space, and now he has teamed up with Fika Recordings to present Christmas in Haworth, a six-track EP available as...
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Allo Darlin’ will be making a most welcome return in early 2012 with a lengthy tour preceding the release of their second album Europe. Elizabeth Morris and her crew, Paul Rains, Bill Botting and Michael Collins, will play a show in London early in the new year as part of the Fortuna Pop! Winter...
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Please forgive us for adding to the bit-too-early Christmas chat, but we’re SO excited to announce the release of our second Christmas compilation For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2011, which is out on 28th November 2011 and available to pre-order now at forfolkssake.bandcamp.com. Some of our very favourite artists have donated songs to the record,...
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“On March the twenty-third, she said something so absurd, she said: you love to be in love but you never really love.” So Darren Hayman sang as lead singer of Hefner a little over ten years ago on their seminal album We Love The City. Hayman – or at least his persona on his...
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