May we cordially recommend a gig to you? It’s in one of the very most beautiful venues in London, there are prizes for the first 50 people to buy tickets from the Communion Music, and the line up is stonking. The…
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Helen is Folk's Sake's Live Editor. She loves many things, including: cookbooks, massive novels, Kings of Convenience, Beirut, Kristin Hersh, Dolly Parton, Willy Mason, St Vincent, The Divine Comedy, Mumford and Sons, The Carpenters, Cocorosie, Eels, Belle and Sebastian, Martha Wainwright, Joanna Newsom and The Smiths.
Album | Martha Wainwright – Come Home to Mama
It’s not often you find you have a strong opinion about every last song on an album, but that’s the case here and there’s a real risk of running out of writing space by the end of track four. Come…
Live | Frightened Rabbit @ 93 Feet East, 21st September
Frightened Rabbit manage, somehow, to strike a fine balance between combative resistance and crowd-pleasing jollity in their live shows. Preferring those at the front of the room to those at the back (who’re probably in the music industry, and therefore…
Album | Rufus Wainwright – Out of the Game
Rufus Wainwright’s seventh studio album, released a full fourteen years after his first, shows an artist who’s swapped addictions to crystal meth and chocolate milk for healthier appetites: fatherhood and a desire to make fully-fledged ‘danceable’ pop music, to name but…
Live | Feist & M. Ward @ Royal Albert Hall, London
Only an idiot goes to the Royal Albert Hall prepared for disappointment. It’s commonly known that mediocre performers wither and die within seconds of taking the stage, so booking anything other than overwhelming brilliance for this auspicious space is tantamount…
News | Cambridge Folk Festival Announces Additions to 2012 Line-Up
Following on from our previous announcement regarding this year’s Cambridge Folk Festival line-up, we’re increasingly pleased with the way that 2012 is shaping up, and it’s not even finished yet. The big, warm, fuzzy Mummy of fiddle-led festivals will take…
Album | Shearwater – Animal Joy
Whilst not as dense or treacle-thick as previous Shearwater records, Animal Joy is just as intricately layered, and manages to be peculiarly exhilerating in spite of its persistently shadowy subject matter. Opener ‘Animal Life’ anchors the album’s loose thread of…
Album | Gretchen Peters – Hello Cruel World
This is Gretchen Peters’ first appearance on FFS, and she’s most decidedly at the country end of our folk spectrum (if you remember Faith Hill, she wrote a song for her in the 90s). She’s lived in Nashville since the…
Live | Emmy the Great @ Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a great band in possession of incredible songs must be in want of a string section. Emmy the Great is just such an act, and FFS is delighted to report that she +…
News | Butcher Boy play Cecil Sharp House + Free MP3
FFS’s have whole-heartedly resolved to help you see more magnificent music in 2012, and what better time to start than the middle of January? This Saturday, the beautiful Cecil Sharp House will play host to two acts we rate very…