John Smith doesn’t like to sit still for long. His fifth album, due out in May, will be called Headlong – a fitting title for a record written during touring stints with Lianne La Havas, Lisa Hannigan and others, not…
Roxanne de Bastion is really spoiling us right now. Just a couple of days on from her delightful session for us, she’s now handed us a first look at the video for her new single ‘Heart of Stone’, taken from…
Matthew Edwards is back in Birmingham. After two decades living in the United States Edwards, formerly of The Music Lovers, has moved back to his hometown. Along the way, he gathered enough material for Folklore, his second album with the…
The ‘Black Lives Matter’ flag so often draped over an amplifier is missing. ‘What It Means’, Patterson Hood’s song about the violence directed at African Americans of late, may have been a setlist mainstay during the North American leg of…
One of, if not the, most beautiful folk projects of last year was volume one of Darren Hayman’s Thankful Villages – a journey around the UK’s 54 villages where all of their First World War soldiers returned from battle alive.…
Swiss folksters Serafyn released their lush debut album Foam last month. Its warm tones and majestic harmonies are perfect to get you through the remaining days of winter – and at this rate may well be needed well into spring.…
For Jon Ouin, one of his favourite things about being a member of Stornoway has been going out on tour. The Oxford band have been gigging since long before some of them were, strictly speaking, old enough to be in…
“We’re going to play you a song off the new record now,” Angie announces. “Actually, they’re all off the new record but it sounds cool to say that.” Those of us crammed into the Basement on the banks of the…
If you’re the sort of person that reads this blog regularly (hey, you’ve made it this far, so let’s assume…) you’ve heard Dan Mayfield’s work before. It might have been the sound of his fiddle on one of Darren Hayman’s…
It’s been 20 years since Karl Smith and Pete Cohen formed Sodastream, and 10 years since we heard anything from the Australian duo. But next month sees the release of their new album Little By Little and a welcome appearance…