When sister site of the Yellow Bird Project, analog.am approached us and asked us if we’d like to pick our favourite albums for an FFS-themed vinyl shelf, it was a foregone conclusion. There is nothing Team FFS likes more than pondering our favourite records. When you’re in your front room with a glass of...
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...
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...
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...
The wonderful Devon Sproule & Paul Curreri have announced the launch of a new night, which goes by the name of Klub Zoo Gang. Through the nights, the couple are bringing us lucky folk some of their favourite under the radar acts & performing themselves as the opening acts. The first show is this...
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,...
Devon Sproule has won our alternative Mercury best album poll The Schmercury Award for her record I Love You, Go Easy’. 1,524 of you chose the Virginian songwriter’s album who beat second place Dark Dark Dark – Wild Go by just four votes. Third place were The Leisure Society for Into The Murky Water,...
Listen to music from all 12 Schmercury nominees, using our handy Spotify playlist and a few lovely links.
In the second in our series of interviews with Schmercury award nominees we speak to Devon Sproule – a Canadian-born musician now living in Virginia, US. As well as her beautiful albums, she’s an absolute joy to watch live, with a natural musicianship and easygoing charm. FFS’s writer Chris Woolfrey called her latest album,...
On the eve of the Mercury poll, FFS have put together a list of our 12 favourite folk-tinged albums of the past year for our very own Schmercury prize. We’re going to do things a little differently this year, and we’ll be awarding TWO prizes. The Readers’ Choice, for the album YOU vote for...
#80 She & Him - I Could've Been Your Girl May 22nd, 2013
#79 Ane Brun - This Voice 2013 May 21st, 2013
#78 Natalie Evans - Library Days May 20th, 2013