Folk rock royalty Teddy Thompson is hosting a Xmas extravaganza at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London next month.
The Wainwright-style affair will feature Teddy Thompson and his mother, folk legend Linda Thompson, as well as Bert Janch, Badly Drawn Boy and Eddi Reader among others.
There’s something quite exciting brewing in the London folk scene, Laura Marling, Noah and the Whale and Johnny Flynn have hit the big time and by doing so they’ve blazed a path for their contemporaries to do the same. Cherbourg are the latest band to emerge from the pack, and they’re not afraid to admit that they want to be a household name.
FFS caught up with Laura Marling for a quick chat ahead of the Portsmouth leg of her Night Terror tour to talk about her US sojourn and being lied about by the papers.
With a genealogy that straddles the Channel and a musical career which already spans multiple locations and genres, Jeremy Warmsley seemed perfectly at home in this splendid little venue in ‘trendy’ Hoxton.
I don’t like cricket, I love it. I think most people would call me a purist: not for me the crash and bluster of Twenty20, I prefer the slower, careful rhythm of a full test match. Apparently, I’m not a purist in everything though. If I have to listen to one more song about a bloody maiden and her dead son in a wood I shall scream long and loud.
Edinburgh’s Euan Robinson, going by his Stars Of Sunday League moniker, gives one of the most modest and self-deprecating interviews in the history of folk.