Dear readers, You may have suspected that I would jump on the sporting bandwagon and create a playlist around the greatest of all competition anthems, Vangelis’ Chariots of Fire because of the ‘Games’ that people are getting all worked up…
Peggy Sue are celebrating this scorchio weather by giving away a free mp3 of their cover of Heatwave. The song is taken from brilliant new album The Songs of Scorpio Rising. It’s Rough Trade’s album of the week and the…
Exciting thing! FFS is failing to contain itself because THE MOUNTAIN GOATS are giving away a free single from their new album Transcendental Youth. It’s called ‘Cry For Judas’ and features SpaceBomb Records horns arranged by Matthew E. White. Listen…
If you’re free this weekend, team FFS’s advice is to get yourself over to the Cambridge Folk Festival website and snap up their last remaining tickets for this weekend’s event. There are still places for Friday, when you can see…
Thursday sees the equivalent of a religious holiday for the folk world kick off as the Cambridge Folk Festival opens for its 48th year. One of the longest-running in the UK, the CFF was first held in 1965 and featured…
You are cordially invited to a very special For Folk’s Sake show at The Gallery Cafe in East London this Wednesday 25 July. The wonderful Bard will be playing. You can listen to their beautiful album The Springtime Fool below.…