I Am Oak is the band of Utrecht-based musician Thijs Kuijken. We first heard him here at FFS when Lauren Laverne played a track from his new album on 6music. Since then we’ve been smitten – and with a really rounded…
Blog | Not at Green Man Festival?
For those of us who aren’t at Green Man this weekend, we’ve put together a Spotify playlist for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own home. Maybe listen to it in the bath to really bite your thumb…
Album | The Big Eyes Family Players & Friends – Folk Songs II
Much of what we welcome under the banner of folk music would have rejected the tag in the not-too-distant past, preferring instead to go by acoustic or indie or nu-something-or-other. The Big Eyes Family Players, though, are folk through and…
Compilation | Just Tell Me That You Want Me – A Fleetwood Mac Tribute
For a band with such an inspirational back catalogue, it is a crying shame that many of the young generations would not know ‘Tusk’ or ‘Go Your Own Way’ unless it appeared on an episode of Glee or Geordie Shore…
Interview | Introducing…Josephine
Hearing Josephine Oniyama for the first time made us very happy indeed, and forthcoming single ‘What A Day’ had us dancing around and telling all our friends how ace it was. This bodes very well indeed for her debut album…
Will Oldham – An Appreciation
The word ‘legend’ is rarely as acutely appropriate to a musician as it is to Will Oldham. It is so useful not because of stature, but because of mythologizing, because of the whole hagiography, the deifying of the thing. In…