Nancy Elizabeth is a true musical artist. There are few acts around in 2013 who have mastered the craft of making music like she has. Listening to Dancing, her third album and the one of which she says she is most proud, is like strolling through an exhibition, where the palette subtly changes as...
Are you asking? Then Nancy Elizabeth is dancing. The Wigan singer has unveiled an alternative version of the track ‘Simon Says Dance’, one of the stand-outs from her new album Dancing, released later this month. Lyrically it’s a playful track, which begins: “We may think we’ve not met before but we’ve danced out our...
One of Nancy Elizabeth’s many talents is to create startlingly different tracks from familiar sounds. Her latest track ‘Heart’, from her upcoming third album Dancing, does exactly that: it is instantly recognisable as Nancy and yet sounds like nothing she’s done before. It’s a rich and complex sound, but when you break it down...
Four years is a long time in music, and an especially long time to go without one of your favourite artists. To say Nancy Elizabeth’s return, nearly four years after the release of her second album Wrought Iron, has been hotly anticipated at FFS Towers, would be putting it mildly. But now it’s time...
Long-time favourite here at FFS, Nancy Elizabeth has announced that she’s releasing her third album after a Hiatus. The Manchester-based artist is giving away a free track ‘The Last Battle’. Listen and download it here. The Last Battle by Nancy Elizabeth Nancy has also announced two live dates in March. The Vortex in London...
Nancy Elizabeth is back – and For Folk’s Sake could not be more excited. Her third album – the first since the blissful Wrought Iron in 2009 – is due out in the summer, a single will be appearing in the coming weeks and Nancy has also announced two live dates. The first is...
Much of what we welcome under the banner of folk music would have rejected the tag in the not-too-distant past, preferring instead to go by acoustic or indie or nu-something-or-other. The Big Eyes Family Players, though, are folk through and through. It’s a tag they invite, welcome and subvert all at once on this...
Brighton-based collective Willkommen announce line-up for third annual Foxtrot festival held at stately home Stanmer House. Peggy Sue and Alessi's ark will support headliners Herman Dune, alongside Sam Amidon, Nancy Elizabeth, This is the Kit and Hannah Peel.
1. My friend Anika reminded me of the fascinating story of Sibylle Baier recently. Sibylle lived in Germany in the 1970s and wrote and recorded simple, beautifully melodic songs tinged with darkness. But she didn’t release anything – deciding not to pursue a singing career. It wasn’t until her son Robby compiled an album from...
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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