Lucy Rose and Willy Mason are among the first acts to be announced for this year’s Cambridge Folk Festival. The pair will both play Stage 2 on the opening night of the festival – Thursday, July 25 – along with…
Interview | Reasons to Believe – FFS speaks to the artists and driving force behind new Tim Hardin tribute album
Reason To Believe is an album of songs by sixties-era folk-pop musician Tim Hardin, revived and celebrated by a host of modern-day artists including Mark Lanegan, Alela Diane and Okkervil River. We spoke to three artists featured on the album…
Album | The Revival Hour – Scorpio Little Devil
The Old Fashioned Revival Hour, an evangelical radio show broadcast in the United States for more than 30 years until 1968, produced a string of popular records through its in-house choir. But while John-Mark Lapham and DM Stith have named…
News | Gerard & the Watchmen UK Tour and free MP3
Good news for fans of good music, FFS favourites Gerard & the Watchmen are heading out on tour this week. To celebrate the band are giving away a free MP3 download ‘Sophia’ to FFS readers. The track’s taken from their…
Album | Fuzzy Lights – Rule Of Twelfths
Having seen Fuzzy Lights live, I can testify that the Cambridgeshire quintet are absolutely tremendous in that setting, their understated stock delivery offset frequently by squalls of noise astonishingly out of keeping with what surrounds them. It’s as if they…
Interview | (Re)Introducing…Mary Dillon
Folk aficionados will certainly have heard of Cara Dillon, one of Ireland’s foremost traditional folk singers. Now re-emerging from a domestic haitus is sister Mary Dillon, once a member of acclaimed 90’s band Deanta and more recently, sometime vocalist on…