Keston Cobblers’ Club are on a self-appointed mission to ‘heel your soles’. Luckily they’re a great deal better at music than puns, combining truly lovely old-school folk with their classical training, trad jazz and a modern-day quirkiness. FFS has been…
Album | Beat The Radar – A Million Different People
If sophomore album A Million Different People is your first introduction to Beat The Radar, it shouldn’t take you long to hear why these Cumbrian lads uprooted themselves and moved to Manchester a few years ago. The city’s musical ghosts…
Live | The Imagined Village @ Basingstoke Anvil
Imagined Village are a force of nature, but is it folk? With their third album, Bending The Dark, the link with the Tradition becomes even more tenuous, and this is a band that defies glib pigeon-holing. With its roots in…
Interview | Taking time out with Admiral Fallow
Louis Abbott, second right, with Admiral Fallow For Admiral Fallow frontman Louis Abbott, finding time to draw breath isn’t easy. When For Folk’s Sake caught up with him he was enjoying a couple of days “on holiday in England”, which…
Album | Peggy Sue – Play The Songs Of Scorpio Rising
As surprises go, last week’s news that Peggy Sue were releasing an album of covers within days was a pretty good one. Songs Of Scorpio Rising is a result of a special project undertaken by the band last year, when…
Album | Mary Epworth – Dream Life
Mary Epworth has already found some success with a couple of well-received 7”s in the form of ‘The Saddle Song’ and ‘Black Doe’. Since those singles, released in 2009, she has spent the last couple of years experimenting in a…