This weekend, the Southbank centre is hosting These Lands Are Your Lands – a celebration of traditional music and dance. On Saturday 7th May, members of Bellowhead will become the Southbank Centre’s house band for The Great Folk Jukebox, performing…
Album: Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
In 2008 Fleet Foxes came out of nowhere with an album that was adored by those who initially discovered it. The waves of critical acclaim combined with word-of-mouth growth has made Helplessness Blues one of the year’s most anticipated releases.…
Mumford & Sons to play gig in aid of AFC Wimbledon
It’s been an amazing year for Mumford & Sons. Over a million copies of Sigh No More have been sold. They’ve received Grammy Award nominations and played live on US network televsion with Bob Dylan. So how do you follow…
For Folk’s Sake interview: The Leisure Society (part 1)
The Leisure Society’s second album Into The Murky Water is out today on Full Time Hobby. Twice Ivor Novello-nominated singer Nick Hemming and keyboard-player and chief harmonist Christian Hardy (who releases solo music as Christian Silva) are the creative force behind the Willkommen band.
For Folk’s Sake interview: The Leisure Society (part 2)
The Leisure Society’s second album Into The Murky Water is out today on Full Time Hobby. Twice Ivor Novello-nominated singer Nick Hemming and keyboard-player and chief harmonist Christian Hardy (who releases solo music as Christian Silva) are the creative force behind the Willkommen band.
Album: tUnE yArDs – w h o k i l l
Perpetual messers-with word cases tUnE yArDs keep their incessant meddling up with this, their second studio album. The powerhouse driving the tUnE yArDs project, Merrill Garbus, has succeeded in giving us an innovative, playful, and staggeringly adept follow-up to the…