It is said that many years ago in the village of Keston, in the London Borough of Bromley, the local cobbler would spend the evenings playing his fiddle to the raucous village rabble. The music he played was so foot-stomping…
Album | Jon Byrne – Built By Angels
Barrow-in-Furness, the shipbuilding ‘cul-de-sac town’ of Cumbria is, by his own admission, responsible for shaping many of Jon Byrne’s tales. On his impressive first album, It’s Boring Being in Control, these were tales of a working-class existence consisting of neighbours…
#121 Volcano Choir – Byegone
It’s hard to imagine their are many FFS readers who won’t be excited, intrigued or at the very least mildly interested to hear new material from Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon. That the new material comes not from Bon Iver but…
Interview | We speak to Eddie Barcan, the man behind the Cambridge Folk Festival
Behind every great festival is a great person – Glastonbury may have Michael Eavis, but Cambridge Folk Festival has Eddie Barcan. Now Manager and Artistic Director, his involvement began in 1990, since which time the festival has grown into the…
#120 Octopuses – Sarcastic
For their first outing post-Foxes!, Adam Bell and Alan Grice appear to have channelled the twin influences of Friedrich Nietzsche and Stephen Malkmus. With their old band on hiatus, Bell and Grice have teamed up with Alan Odgers and Tom Matthews…
#119 Winter Mountain – Shed A Little Light
Some people think folk music is all men with beards playing acoustic guitars and clapping. These people are idiots, but just to be on the safe side, don’t show them ‘Shed A Little Light’ by Winter Mountain, which is two…