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…
#118 Huck & The Xander Band – Alex
It’s fair to say that we at Team FFS bend to no-one in our love of Anais Mitchell’s Hadestown. So while some some might be put off by an EP with the title Alexander the Great: a Folk Operetta ? Act…
Interview | Magic Arm
Magic Arm – AKA Marc Rigelsford – has an a distinctly lo-fi attitude to music production. After releasing his first EP, a truly bedroom affair, he ventured into the studio to record debut full-length, Make Lists, Do Something, an electro-folk…
News | Pixies make surprise return with ‘Bagboy’
Just when you thought Glastonbury was the only music news story in town, the Pixies have only gone and surprised everyone with a brand new track. Unveiled on their website this morning, ‘Bagboy’ is the first new music from the…