If you like your folk dreamy, stripped-down and devoid of gimmicks, we suggest you check out Emma Gatrill. Falling somewhere between Hannah Peel, Alessi’s Ark and Serafina Steer, harpist Gatrill weaves vocals and melodies together in understated, beautifully-crafted patterns. Whether…
Category: Interviews
Record Store Day | Music’s Not Dead, Bexhill-on-Sea
Bexhill-on-Sea: home of the iconic art deco De La Warr Pavilion, a magnificent century-old seafront colonnade, quaint beach huts, and a huge retirement community. Not the most obvious place to open up a new record store. But that is exactly…
Record Store Day | The Drift Record Shop, Totnes, Devon
Rupert Morrison runs the Drift Record Shop in Totnes – a Devon town in between Plymouth and Exeter. We caught up with him about returning to his hometown after living in London, his plans for Record Store Day and how…
Interview | Seth Lakeman – Folk’s Reluctant ‘Poster-Boy’ Goes It Alone
FOR YEARS musicians have claimed in pre-album release interviews to be ‘going back to their roots’, re-discovering their heritage and casting off the shackles of show-business, insisting it’s ‘all about the music.’ More often than not this is simply PR…
Interview | Talk About Body – FFS meets Jenny Hval
Jenny Hval is a woman of radical contrasts and disconcerting juxtapositions. Physically small, delicate and bird-like, her vocal suggests a much bigger set of lungs while her music explores the relationship between the organic and the man-made. Tonight, after a…
Interview | Sunshine, Shoreditch and Sea of Bees
The lovely Sea of Bees, a.k.a. Julie Baenziger, sat down with us on a sunny day in Shoreditch to talk about her new album Orangefarben, first love, music, life and happiness. FFS: How does Orangefarben differ from your first album, Songs…
Interview | Michele Stodart
My first encounter with Michele Stodart was at London’s Apple Cart Festival in 2011. Brandishing a steel string guitar which she performed her stunning renditions of love, loss and wise experience: she takes you to a place which could just…
Interview | Introducing….Louise & the Pins.
Lousie Hull, formally known alongside her London-based band as Louise & the Pins, combines perfect folk with rock n’ roll to create inspired melodies with the help of her talented band + backing singers. Her glamorous 50’s style look and…
Interview | Ellen & The Escapades
First of all, we should admit that our headline isn’t entirely accurate. This is an interview with Ellen, but there were no Escapades present. We didn’t talk about them behind their back though, at least not too much, choosing instead…
Interview | Introducing….Rough Fields
Rough Fields is the musical project of James Birchall who makes, in his words, ‘sort of folk’ music. We say it’s sort of beautiful. Here’s an introduction. Hello, please introduce yourself and your music to the uninitiated. Hello. My name…