Tag: Thea Gilmore

Album | Thea Gilmore – Thea Gilmore

The strange days are over. Thea Gilmore survived a rancorous divorce with an album documenting that toxic relationship, Afterlife released under the name Afterlight. But now she returns with an album 25 years in the making, and one markedly self-titled,…

Season’s Listening | Thea Gilmore’s Strange Communion

Christmas albums are a funny thing. They can be jubilant celebrations that only complement that particular artist’s canon (hello, A Christmas Gift for You), crazily self-indulgent yet somehow amazing side projects (hi Sufjan Stevens), or, sadly more often than not,…

Festivals | Cambridge Folk Festival: Saturday preview

  Saturday promises to be an epic day of established and rising stars from all corners of the globe. Representing Scotland in The Den is folk-country newcomer, Edinburgh native Ross Wilson – AKA Blue Rose Code – who has just…

Album | Thea Gilmore – Regardless

Thea Gilmore’s return, following the birth of her second child, brings with it a 14th studio album in as many years which finds her on top of her game. Gilmore herself admits the time she took away from music helped…

News | Staves complete Cambridge line-up

The Staves headed the final wave of acts to be added to the Cambridge Folk Festival as the complete line-up was revealed today. The trio will play Main Stage 1 on the Sunday of the event which runs from July…

Record Store Day | The FFS shopping guide

With over 400 special releases planned, this year’s will easily be the biggest Record Store Day to date. We can’t imagine such a huge array of vinyl will leave anyone short of ideas, but you might just be overwhelmed by…

Laura Marling, Beth Orton and Thea Gilmore to play Hay Festival

We all know books are sexy, in which case the annual Hay Festival is likely to get you rather hot under the collar, with the likes of Bill Bryson, Zadie Smith and Tom Stoppard (plus many, many more) gracing the programme. But if you prefer to get…