
Seth Lakeman has a lot to live up to. It’s not every violin player who gets a call from Robert Plant as he’s driving his daughter to school and thinks it’s a prank. Despite his initial disbelief he became a…
When we caught up with folk superstar, Seth Lakeman, just before Christmas he was on a bracing walk around Dartmoor with George, his spaniel. After making soppy noises over the dog, FFS calmed down enough to ask Lakeman about his…
As a general rule of thumb, adding an orchestra to something makes it vastly different. Examples of things that would be made wildly more interesting by the addition of an orchestra include train stations, casual conversation and bathtime. The opposing…
If folk were to have anything as bourgeois as a hierarchy, husband and wife duo Sean Lakeman and Kathryn Roberts might be prime candidates for the top spots. Initially part of folk super-group, Equation (also featuring Seth and Sam Lakeman…
Keston Cobblers’ Club are on a self-appointed mission to ‘heel your soles’. Luckily they’re a great deal better at music than puns, combining truly lovely old-school folk with their classical training, trad jazz and a modern-day quirkiness. FFS has been…