Record Store Day | The FFS shopping guide
With over 400 special releases planned, this year’s will easily be the biggest Record Store Day to date. We can’t imagine such a huge array of vinyl will leave anyone short of ideas, but you might just...
View ArticleInterview | Smoke Fairies introduce new album Blood Speaks
As they prepare to release new album Blood Speaks next month, FFS spoke to Smoke Fairies Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies about the new album and the role of tea in the songwriting process.FFS: The...
View ArticleAlbum | Smoke Fairies – Blood Speaks
If there’s been one constant in the Smoke Fairies’ story to date, it has been their refusal to stand still. From leaving their Sussex roots to spend time living in America and Canada before returning...
View ArticleInterview | Reasons to Believe – FFS speaks to the artists and driving force...
Reason To Believe is an album of songs by sixties-era folk-pop musician Tim Hardin, revived and celebrated by a host of modern-day artists including Mark Lanegan, Alela Diane and Okkervil River. We...
View ArticleRecord Store Day | The FFS Shopping Guide 2013 (part 3)
If you’ve got any budget left from reading parts one and two of the shopping guide, we can help you find a few more ways to spend it in part three.Tift Merritt – Markings | Merritt revisits the title...
View ArticleBlog | Ian’s Record Store Day: 7 shops. 22 records. 23.5 hours.
Ian Parker, Albums Editor extraordinaire, is uncontested for the title of For Folk’s Sake’s resident physicals enthusiast.While some of us were busy watching Johnny Flynn’s baby singing his dad’s songs...
View ArticleFFS Advent Calendar Door Two | Smoke Fairies – Simple Feeling
The Snowflakes Christmas Singles Club are unleashing a veritable feast of sounds for fans of a quality Christmas song, with four (snow white, of course) 7″s hitting the shelves of fine record shops...
View ArticleAlbum | Smoke Fairies – Smoke Fairies
It may come as something of a surprise to learn that the Smoke Fairies, at some point in the all-too-recent past, were on the brink of calling it a day; pausing at a fork in the road and pondering...
View ArticleRecord Store Day | Shopping Guide Part Two
Still got money to burn after reading part one of our shopping guide? Then step this way. We’ll help you spend it.PLEASE NOTE: The prices are the ones we’ve been given – but please don’t blame us if...
View ArticleInterview | Smoke Fairies On Second Chances And Their New Record
If that ‘difficult second album’ is all about attempting to sustain the success of the first, then the third album should really be called ‘the existential crisis record’ – the one where artists...
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