Laura Marling has today launched an interactive website featuring a poem and artwork inspired by her song ‘The Beast’, taken from her third album A Creature I Don’t Know. The poem is narrated by Gil Landry from Old Crow Medicine…
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Album: Dan Michaelson and the Coastguards – Shakes
It creaks open like an old wooden door in a Elizabethan house, does Dan Michaelson’s voice. The centrepiece of any album Michaelson features on, be it with the Coastguards or the slightly more established Absentee, it’s a voice that is…
Album: Josh Ritter – So Runs the World Away.
Josh Ritter’s latest album ‘So Runs the World Away’ has taken almost two years to make — it’s an ambitious and wordy offering but don’t let that put you off. You’ll enjoy following the twisting narrative of this scholarly poet.…
Live: Mountain Goats @ Koko, 09/09/10
A man with clunky glasses, turned up jeans, bare feet and a nice bottle of Chablis isn’t everyone’s idea of a god. In fact, it’s not a far cry from most people’s idea of Elton John. Nonetheless, just such a…
FFS New Bands Panel: Jay Stansfield
Jay Stansfield grew up near Burnley, where he tells us he was raised on dub, psychedelia, acid-rock, alternative folk, new wave and punk. That sounds like a real hot pot to us, so the panel gave the results a taste…
Live: Otis Gibbs @ The Sheepwalk, Leytonstone
It was in the intimate, low-key surroundings of Leytonstone’s Sheepwalk pub that around a hundred or so people took their places to witness a little slice of Americana . Indiana’s very own Otis Gibbs performed protest songs such as ‘People’s…
Johnny Flynn postpones tour dates due to illness
Poor Johnny Flynn has been forced to cancel two tour dates after catching flu. The cancelled dates are Manchester tonight (19th May) and Glasgow tomorrow. They have been rescheduled for 29th and 30th June respectively. The West London folk stalwart…
Live: The Rural Alberta Advantage @ The Lexington
The RAA play with one foot in their hometown with songs rooted in a place far from the Islington pub in which they performed on Tuesday. Their music is as much about love, longing for a place, and the feeling…
Live: CocoRosie at Union Chapel, London
Those of you who have been to Union Chapel will know what a unique venue it is. I can’t imagine anywhere more appropriate for freak-folksters CocoRosie. The music performed within the Chapel, the stage is worked around the rather grand…
Live: FFS at Leeds Live
Ali Mason tastes the wonders of Leeds Live for the first time, and describes the experience for FFS’s readers. Bask in the glow of this wonderful May Bank Holiday weekend. On a bright, sunny, May Day morning, I set out…