In August last year, Josienne Clarke emerged from the fog that she had lived in for over a decade. In her fight to be recognised for work that she’d written, she’d been labelled a troublemaker. Instead of allowing this to…
One of the few things that truly helped me through the first few months of the original lockdown all that time ago was Mr. Alec Bowman’s debut album I Used to be Sad but Then I Forgot – an album…
Josienne Clarke has fought to be given the credit her work has deserved for years. It’s been exhausting and she admits that she had to be explicit in explaining how much her name and talent warranted recognition, as if she…
Melancholia gives way to the slightest glimpse of hope on Such A Sky, the surprise new EP from BBC Folk Award winner Josienne Clarke and former Mercury Prize nominee Kit Downes. Though the pairing of Clarke’s voice with a virtuosic…
One of our favourite new bands Patch & the Giant are putting on a Christmas extravaganza, with a line up featuring tons of the artists who are on this year’s For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas record. The band have teamed up with…
The title track from Christmas album alumni Josienne and Ben’s new record, Fire and Fortune is an original composition among an album of old and new songs. A sparsely orchestrated, building track that shows off Josienne’s gorgeous vocals perfectly. If…
What does it take to redirect the trends of culture? Is it money, or is it love? Was mankind tuned into disco, to apocalyptic movies? Or were they tuned into us? These are big questions. These are big, pretentious questions…
Folkroom Records have released their second record, titled Anthology Two. The album features eleven especially-recorded tracks from the likes of Lucy Cait, Ellie Rumbold, Andrew Butler, Worry Dolls, Herons!, Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker, Zoe Wren, The Moon, The Son &…
It’s been a good year for Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker. Following on from their 2011 sophomore album Seas Are Deep, the duo found themselves in Bristol, picking up the Isambard Folk Award. It’s an interesting development then that, after…
Everything about Josienne Clarke’s music, whether live or recorded, is proper folk. Her debut album One Light Is Gone resolutely champions an authentic acoustic sound and instantly gained heavy rotation on this listener’s daily commute. Josienne’s songs are traditional and…