Alex Highton is not your typical ‘rock star’. A devoted, Liverpool-born family man who has shied away from city life to enjoy the charming Cambridgeshire countryside, what sets him apart from his fellow countryside neighbours is his talent to…
Category: Interviews
Interview | Diagram’s Sam Genders
Sam Genders isn’t a man to stay in one place too long. Best known as co-founder of electro-folk band Tunng, he’s also been a member of folk super group The Accidental and is now back with solo project, Diagrams. The…
Interview | The Third Coming of Simone Felice
When doctors told Simone Felice that, at the age of 33, he should by rights be dead, it wasn’t like he hadn’t been there before. In June of 2010, Felice was diagnosed with aortic stenosis, a serious heart condition that…
Interview | For Folk’s Sake meets First Aid Kit
First Aid Kit are born performers. As I’m ushered through Bush Hall past the photos of the golden greats past and present, and into the Green Room which has seen the presence of Amy Winehouse, REM, Alanis Morrisette, Feist, Regina Spektor and many…
Interview | Ane Brun
Ane Brun’s fourth studio album It All Starts With One was released earlier this month to widespread acclaim and praise; a gloriously emotive and compelling affair that ensures her talents as a musician will be further known upon these shores.…
Interview | Richmond Fontaine’s Willy Vlautin
Vlautin, left, performs with Richmond Fontaine in Leeds “I’m not a huge fan of concept records,” says Willy Vlautin, the frontman and songwriter of Richmond Fontaine, who have just released, well, a concept album. The High Country is described as…
Interview | Schmercury nominee Rachael Dadd
Our final best album nominee Rachael Dadd’s album Bite the Mountain. Reviewer Tom White said: “The record has an understated autumnal air to it, drifting by like the falling leaves and providing a pretty and colourful backdrop.” For Folk’s Sake:…
Interview | Schmercury best album nominee Emmy the Great
Emmy the Great’s Virtue is a devastatingly brutal and beautiful record about the break up of a relationship. There was no way we could fail to recognise it in this year’s best album list. FFS’s Rory Dollard said: “Sparse closing…
Interview | Schmercury best album nominees the Secret Sisters
The Secret Sisters are Laura and Lydia Rogers from Muscle Shoals, Alabama. After getting the stamp of quality that is a Jack White-produced single, the sisters released their self-titled debut album. Our reviews editor Ian Parker said: “the Secret Sisters…
Interview | Schmercury best album nominees The Leisure Society
Schmercury winners in 2009 for their debut album, The Sleeper, the Leisure Society’s masterful second album Into the Murky Water was released this year to a flurry of acclaim from critics and, notably, an awful lot of celebrities (John Simm, Chris…