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Cover art for Laura Marling’s Goodbye England released

The single – the first to be released from Laura’s forthcoming second album – will be released on 14th December on Virgin. It’ll be available as a vinyl and download from the usual places. And it’s much, much better than…

Laura Marling's Christmas song: Goodbye England

This song is beautiful. Some kind (and a bit illegal) person has yoinked the music, stuck it over a way old photo of Laura and put it up on YouTube. [Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGot7yoKyg8]

Tristram

We’re very excited to have Tristram playing at The Allotment on 1st December (along with Caitlin Rose and Joe Innes – click on those links to stream their latest releases in full FREE – I love Bandcamp!). Tristram’s just back…

Rediscovering Mumford and Sons

After months of bigging up one of FFS’s earliest interviewees, Mumford and Sons, I had my love for the West London foursome tested by a series of well-written but harsh reviews from the music press, some of which struck an…

Olly the Octopus Christmas Single

The manliest man in folk is to release a Christmas single which isn’t that Christmassy but does have a great video. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqz_i_AE8Ps]

An artist a day

Inspired by comedian Josie Long’s One Hundred Days project I will be listening to and reviewing one new band a day for 100 days from 1st December. It could be just from their myspace, or a single album or EP…

Cocos Lovers in a pub

What could be better than a lovely bit of acoustic folk in a country pub on a winters evening? Nothing? We agree… feast your eyes: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTo5XFdECBk] The band say: ?”We will be at the Enterprise, Camden headlining a Folking Good…