For some time now, London’s finest folk musicians have been gathering at Kings Cross’ Queens Head, showcasing their talents at the Folkroom. With a steadily growing audience, it only seems right to match this, which is exactly what the team…
Having finally cleared out all the big boxes of the For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2011 CDs (thanks everybody for making the CD a total sell-out, and remember if you missed out, downloads are still available!) we finally had a…
Sam Brookes, troubador and organiser of the Unplugged Sessions at the Mayfair Windmill, has taken the show on the road over the past week. With a cracking line up featuring Pete Roe, Emily & the Woods, Hot Feet, John Parker…
With the space on stage no bigger than the size of your average dining table, surrounded by no less than nine (!) Christmas trees taking up what little room there was; one lonely microphone awaited the arrival of what had brought…
As you might expect from a group as interesting as The Unthanks, Diversions is not a straight covers album. Rather it is a re-imagining, a project in its own right, comparable to many other ‘versions’ projects that have emerged from…
Thursday night saw The Leisure Society perform with The Heritage Orchestra at the Barbican in London. It was as triumphant a show as you might expect. Hearing the songs we know and love so well treated with the reverence they…