Last year The Dufflefolks opened The Greenman Festival after winning 2010’s Greenpoll; reaching the final as one of the fans’ choices before a judge’s panel comprising, among others, Bella Union head Simon Raymonde, Mojo editor Phil Alexander, and Stephen Bass, co-founder of Moshi Moshi, reckoned them a promising act and gave them the nod....
Attention Londoners (and near Londoners)! For Folk’s Sake favourites and winners of the Green Man unsigned band competition the Dufflefolks will be headlining a charity show in aid of VSO this Wednesday at the Tooting Tram & Social. And it’s good news for people who like good music, because enchanting songstress Emily & the...
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...
US anti-folk legend Diane Cluck says: “I’ve never covered any Joni Mitchell songs, but I’ve enjoyed singing ‘Help Me’ since I was a kid in the 70s. The melody was swooping and fun to sing, and I imagined whoever was singing it was the gentle sort of man I could fall in love with....
You won’t be surprised to hear that here at FFS, folk is the only music we claim to know anything about, but that doesn’t mean we’re not open to dalliances with another genre or two. We’ve enlisted the help of our pal Louis, a man with a scarily large record collection and he’s kindly...
From 4-track to Abbey Road studio 2, recording is a process any band has to go through. From my personal perspective as a Dufflefolk, it is of highs and lows. It confirms all your worst fears about a song through its magnifying glass but also appeals to the inner geek, which resides in most...
Hot off the heels of an immense success in October, The Allotment is back this Wednesday for a second installment. Lynn FFS and Anika of in London fame have gathered together a gaggle of happily talented musicians, one of the best cake bakers in the land, and bacon on coathangers (!? - that...
She Keeps Bees, Babe Shadow and the Dufflefolks had a bit of a surprise last night when miserablist legend Morrissey turned up to their gig at The Old Queen’s Head. Speaking to FFS, Dufflefolks guitarist and bassist Louis said: “He arrived halfway through Babe Shadow’s set. He sat in the corner while people fawned...
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