Interviews

An Interview with Krista Detor

by Alex 24 March 2011 Interviews

Mike Wilson talks to Indiana-based singer-songwriter, Krista Detor who returns to Europe this April, playing throughout the month in the UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands. Krista also shares some exclusive demo tracks with Folk Radio UK

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Interview with Emily Barker

by Alex 3 March 2011 Interviews

We recently caught up with Emily Barker who has just released her new album, Almanac with her all girl band, The Red Clay Halo. They are attracting more attention now then ever before making them a sought after act for festivals this year.

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Dan Haywood’s New Hawks Interview

by Alex 14 February 2011 Interviews

Dan Haywood’s New Hawks chronicles Haywood’s journey around Northern Scotland, his songs absorb the land, it’s people and wildlife. What may at first appear quirky becomes incredibly well rooted and natural. What took five years to create can never be done again. So we had to speak to him…

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Interview with Kate Stables of This is the Kit

by Melanie McGovern 6 December 2010 Interviews

Kate Stables is the staple of folk project This is the Kit, who, alongside long-time collaborator Jesse D. Vernon, perform ordinarily as a two-piece splitting their time between Bristol and Paris. Initially noticed in 2006 thanks to a Folk Off compilation featuring other nu-weird-folksters Animal Collective and Vashti Bunyan, This is the Kit were hailed [...]

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Moulettes – Interview

by Alex 17 November 2010 Interviews

The moulettes were one of the highlights at this year’s Open House Festival. With the release of their self-titled debut album this year we caught up with them to talk about their music and influences.

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Kerry Fowler – Dance of the Selkie

by Billy 9 November 2010 Interviews

Kerry Fowler’s solo EP, Dance of the Selkie, is a fine introduction to a promising singer songwriter who’s garnering some much deserved praise for her well-crafted and atmospheric ballads.

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Here We Go Magic – Interview / Review

by Melanie 5 October 2010 Interviews

Formerly the project of Luke Temple, Brooklyn’s Here We Go Magic has now expanded into a five-piece, and since signing to record label Secretly Canadian just a year ago they have gone on to tour with the likes of Grizzly Bear and The Walkmen, as well as receiving praise from none other than Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, who stated of their [...]

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Timber Timbre – Interview and Review

by Melanie 5 October 2010 Interviews

Timber Timbre, the moniker of Taylor Kirk, is the rich onomatopoeic term given to what he describes as his “very woody sounding” early recordings. A Canadian musician whose music has been described as “swampy, ragged blues” both “cinematic and spooky” the solo project has now expanded to comprise an additional two members, violinist Mika Posen and Simon Trottier on lap-steel and auto harp. I [...]

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Rachael Dadd interview and Elephee EP review

by Melanie 21 September 2010 Interviews

Rachael Dadd is seated onstage at North London’s The Luminaire, arranged on a table beside her is a collection of crockery and three sets of chopsticks. It is an interesting experimental set up that I’m lucky enough to watch blossom into a spontaneous, twinkling performance of a new song that she tells me is inspired by her [...]

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Phosphorescent review and interview

by Melanie 20 September 2010 Interviews

Despite musical beginnings a decade ago in Athens, Georgia under the moniker Fillup Shack, Matthew Houck’s better known Phosphorescent guise only recently crept out of the woodwork with acclaimed 2007 LP Pride, the lo-fi, haunted tones of which earmarked him as an artist of a similar highly praised songwriting stature to Will Oldham and Iron & [...]

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First Aid Kit @ The Garage, London (Review + Interview)

by Melanie 22 July 2010 Interviews

Swedish sisters First Aid Kit’s “Happy 10th Birthday Wichita” show at The Garage proved the pair, still under 20 years old, to be growing masters of the narrative driven story songs they grew up listening to. We caught up with Klara and Johanna Söderberg before their show for a brief chat about Swedish folk music, their influences and plans to expand their [...]

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Interview with Brendan Glasson of Vio/Miré

by Melanie 19 July 2010 Interviews

It’s a very rare occurrence to stumble upon an artist whom you find to be both refreshing yet somehow like an old friend, in the stories they share and the emotions they stir up. Watching Rhode Island’s Brendan Glasson play under the moniker Vio/Miré on Wednesday night; supporting David Thomas Broughton; was just one of those occasions.

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The Staves – Review / Interview

by Billy 22 June 2010 Interviews

The Staves, comprising of sisters Jessica, Camilla and Emily, are a melodious folk trio from Watford who are garnishing some well deserved praise for their infectious and seductive harmonies. Their new EP, “Facing West” is an excellent introduction to the girls’ music and a real promise of treats to come.

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Nancy Elizabeth Video Interview

by Alex 28 April 2010 Interviews

Whilst on her European travels, Lancashire lass, Nancy Elizabeth, recorded an interview in Portugal on which she gives some honest and open insights into her work.

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