When Beyond Our Means, the debut album from Left With Pictures, was released in late 2009, the critical consensus seemed to be that the band did nothing extraordinary, but did it bloody well. Perhaps the London-based fivesome took that as a challenge, because not much is ordinary about In Time. In 2010, Left With...
Hello, here’s the second installment of things-that-I-have-found-interesting-recently (pending snappier title). This week I’ve made a decision to go for a Virginia Woolf-style stream of consciousness (either that or I’ve lost my notebook with the things I planned to write about in it – you decide which explanation is more plausible). 1. There’s a rather...
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...
A smorgasbord of motion picture magic including Charlotte Gainsbourg feat. Beck - Heaven Can Wait, She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?, Left With Pictures - Constantly, Broken Bells - The High Road and Kate Bush - Babooshka
Never content to rest on their laurels, Left With Pictures have set themselves a mammoth task for 2010. Their new project, In Time, will be the work of a whole year, with the boys writing, recording and releasing one song per month. On the last Monday of each month, the band will hand the...
Moonshine Jambouree started out a little under a year ago with free shows in The Slaughtered Lamb in Clerkenwell. The gigs have come a long way since then and now promoter Antony Chalmers is part way through a run of shows on the Tamesis. A split level boat docked on the south bank of...
Propounders of all sounds lovely, Moonshine Jamboree, have commenced a series of musical adventures on the majestic river Thames aboard the good ship Tamesis, a converted barge which has come a long way since its birth in 1930s Holland.
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.
For those Londoners going stir crazy this bank holiday weekend we've got a last minute gig suggestion for you. My Latest Novel are launching their second album Deaths and Entrances at Bush Hall tonight, with support from It Hugs Back, Left With Pictures and Stars of Sunday League.
Left With Pictures are a London-based trio specialising in delightfully crafted, sweet folk pop with influences including Belle & Sebastian and Sufjan Stevens. They Say: “They’ll have you nodding your head, tapping your toes and humming along contentedly until they suddenly get you – your heart breaks and your tongue rolls out to the...
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