Mancunian singer-songwriter Josephine recently released her second album Portrait to great acclaim. Her music is a combination of soul and folk, with a healthy dose of pop which was recently showcased on ‘Later with Jools Holland’. We caught up with her to chat about that…
Category: Interviews
Interview | Katy Carr – woman on a mission
Katy Carr is on a mission. The daughter of a British father and Polish mother, her fourth album, Paszport, is a tribute to lost and forgotten Polish war stories that is both moving and a darn good listen. Carr’s first…
‘G’n’R had the look, the riffs, the lyrics your parents didn’t want you to hear” – Old Crow Medicine Show
Old Crow Medicine Show play good ol’, rootin’ tootin’ American and blue grass and can name fans as illustrious as Marcus Mumford, Norah Jones and Gillian Welch. In fact, they supported our own Mumford and Sons back in 2011 on…
Interview | FFS talk to Seth Lakeman (and George)
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…
Interview |Martha Tilston – ‘If folk music doesn’t ask questions folk are asking, who will?’
It’s hard to imagine that Martha Tilston could have become anything other than a folk artist. When your dad is folk legend Steve Tilston, your parents run a folk night in Bristol, and Bert Jansch and John Renbourn frequently pop round…
Interview | Lucy Rose on an amazing year – and tea
It’s hard to introduce Lucy Rose without saying she did backing vocals for Bombay Bicycle Club. Now we’ve got that out of the way, we can talk about the really interesting stuff, like how she’s gone from recording her debut…
Interview | The inexplicable music of Matt Corby
Matt Corby arrives in the bar of busy east London pub/venue The Cornershop having completed the sound check in the basement for tonight’s special, one-off, acoustic show. The preparations have taken an hour longer than expected, and the 22-year-old Australian is clearly…
Interview | Gibson Bull
We first found Gibson Bull back in 2010, propping up a bar in the American deep south swigging whiskey with Woody Guthrie and The Civil Wars. Actually that last part was a lie, but his world-worn, country tones really…
Interview and album stream | By The Sea
“We hope it sounds like a series of failed Springsteen anthems played with too many chorus pedals. That is the theme.” Thus spake The Wirral’s most promising newcomers, By The Sea. We don’t really know what it means, but the…
Interview | After 40 years, Ray Stinnett’s fire burns bright
“I MAY HAVE been a little headstrong.” Ray Stinnett can afford a little chuckle when reflecting on why it took 41 years for his album A Fire Somewhere to see the light of day. Putting out any record can be…