As the Fairport Convention Wintour comes to a close, Dave Pegg (‘Peggy’ to his friends’) looks back over the highs and lows (not that there really seem to have been many) of the tour, and looks forward to the next…
Album | Stornoway – Tales From Terra Firma
Stornoway have a bit of a history with FFS. Around the time of their first album we became a little frustrated with their insistence that they were not a folk band. We wrote our review of the record as an…
News | Bellowhead, Levellers among Cambridge headliners
Bellowhead and the Levellers have been announced as two of the headliners for this year’s Cambridge Folk Festival. The pair top the bill on on the two biggest stages on the Friday night of the July event, while the newly-reformed…
#4 My Morning Jacket – Leaving On A Jet Plane
Jim James’ workaholism is not yet on the scale of Jack White or a Dan Auerbach but he’s moving towards their little circle, a man for whom the daily life of leading My Morning Jacket, recording side projects and becoming…
Interview | Leo Abrahams
Leo Abrahams’s atmospheric, layered songs and fantastic guitar work make this talented singer-writer-composer-producer-multi-instrumentalist one to look out for. He’s collaborated with the likes of Brian Eno, Jarvis Cocker and Paul Simon and worked on film scores for high-profile productions ‘The…
News | Daughter set for UK tour
Fans of indie folk and long-term planning, today is your lucky day: Daughter have announced a UK tour for October. While Elena Tonra’s London-based three-piece have a pretty hectic touring schedule in the pipeline following the release of their debut…