It’s Chriiiiiiiistmaaaaaas! Crack open the mince pies, mull the wine, dig out your festive jumper and settle down with For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2013. Our now traditional festive compilation is available to buy now from www.forfolkssake.bandcamp.com. You can get your…
FFS favourites Stornoway have this month released a 6-track mini album, You Don’t Know Anything. The album features six new songs including live favourite ‘When You Touch Down From Outer Space’. Stornoway – who donated a song to this year’s…
Deck the halls! Ring the bells! We’ve got Christmassy news. Team FFS are delighted to announce the tracklist for For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2013 – and give you a first peek at the artwork, designed by lighthouse-creator Sarah Oxley.…
Annoyed by the early Christmas displays in the supermarket? Tempted to chuck a cushion at the telly every time the John Lewis ad comes on? Then look away now because we’ve got some festive news for you. We’re back this…
We’re really excited to have this exclusive video interview with Brian from Stornoway offering insights and musings on ‘The Bigger Picture’. Check it.
Stornoway have a bit of a history with FFS. Around the time of their first album we became a little frustrated with their insistence that they were not a folk band. We wrote our review of the record as an…
Oxford folk act Stornoway have warmed the hearts of folk lovers since the release of their debut album, Beachcomber’s Windowsill, in 2010, their haunting and jaunty songs striking a chord with fans. They release their second album, Tales from Terra Firma, on March…
Win tickets & albums by the Leisure Society, Stornoway, Ellen and the Escapades, The Travelling Band and Eliza Carthy
Previous experience has taught me that the addition of anything resembling a string section to a live show can only ever be a very good thing. In fact, just a single violin can do the trick, and luckily for me,…
As an Isle of Wight native, I’ve seen Bestival grow from a small, sparky young thing in 2004 to the vast, fiery dragon it is today. I worried that my favourite festival was about to grow so big that it…