Sparky electro-pop and dance were more dominant than folk at this year’s Bestival, but it’s a cheerful mish-mash where sensitive strumming acts are welcomed (as long as they’re not upset by a soft background thud of drum and bass, as King Creosote was). The Unthanks sang beautifully to a very appreciative crowd, accompanied by...
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We’ve gone through the folkier end of the festival calender, and hereby bring you our picks. You won’t find any news on Glastonbury or Reading and Leeds, mind. We’re here to tell you about the things you might not have heard about yet. And what a selection there is this year. You can see...
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We were already big fans of Laura Marling’s work here at FFS, but her soon-to-be-released second album I Speak Because I Can has propelled our fandom further skyward. And as if her increasingly-great songwriting wasn’t enough, we also hugely admire Laura’s use of her status — as perhaps the most popular of the modern...
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Every discerning folk fan’s foul of choice, Brian Wilson II, is pleased to announce that spring has most definitely sprung. He’s spent most of the morning being dragged around a meadow by a fresh-born lamb in whose fleece his talons became most unfortunately entangled, and yet his pleasure in the changing of the seasons...
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Although his primary love is, obviously, all forms of beautiful music, Brian’s a bird with more than one string to his bow. He likes nothing better than curling up in his nest on a grey winter’s day with a good book. He’s not fussy – fiction, non fiction, myth, legend or Modernist tome. He’s...
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Following the myriad successes of film-album combo First Days of Spring, which won Noah and the Whale much critical acclaim and shattered aortas left, right and centre, details of Fink and Co.’s next LP have been released. Tantalising they are too. Another word might be ‘sketchy’, another ‘uncertain’. What we do know, according to...
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Some folks are, we hear, rather fond of getting something for nothing. If you are one of these strange people, you could be watching Noah and the Whale at the Roundhouse for no pounds and no pence next March.
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Noah and the Whale have said they are 'devastated' after losing thousands of pounds worth of kit to thieves this week.
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If Noah and the Whale’s debut album Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down was a summer fling, then their second offering The First Days of Spring is all the heartache and introspection that comes with the demise of your first true love.
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Noah and the Whale drummer Doug Fink, brother of frontman Charlie, has announced he is to leave the band to resume his medical career after collecting his degree from University College London last year.
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