Folks support The Virgin Marys at SBWMC in West Yorkshire 040212 and tickets are available here.
Our first show of 2012 is this Thursday 020212 at the Borderline and we’re supporting We Are Augustines and Admiral Fallow, this is part of the HMV Next Big Thing series of gigs. We’re then performing an audio session on Friday in London (more news to follow) and then back up North. This Saturday 040212 we play with The Virgin Marys in West Yorkshire. At the end of the month 290212 we play London’s Barfly supporting The Static Jacks as part of the ‘Time Out Sessions’. Hope you can make one of the shows, ticket links can be found here.
Folks are pleased to announce a few new dates whilst we are out in Europe with NGHFB in March, more intimate shows in Milan, Heidelberg and Cologne are now confirmed, you can check out venues here. We will be adding a few more dates very soon.
We’ll soon be announcing additional dates that coincide with our shows supporting Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds on their European Tour. This will hopefully give people a chance to see the band in a more intimate setting – and subscribers to wearefolks.com will be the first to know.
We’re back in our rehearsal room preparing for our show with We Are Augustines and Admiral Fallow on 020211 at The Borderline in London. This event is already sold out but hopefully, more tickets will be made available closer to the date. Following this, on 040211, we play with The Virgin Marys in West Yorkshire and tickets are available here. We’ve also been spending sometime in the studio working with Ruadhri Cushnan. You can read a great article on Ruadhri from Sound On Sound here. We’ll let you hear the results of the sessions as soon as we can. Luis De Benito on Spanish National Radio has been playing tracks from our album ‘I See Cathedrals’ on his radio show ‘Islas De Robinson’ and you can stream his show here. The legendary John Robb at Louder Than War has also included us in his 50 New Bands for 2012 – Folks are #8. John describes the band as ‘A crafted Mancunian guitar band with uber Beatle melodies and classic songs’ which to us, is quite an accolade. You can read the full article here. The photo of Michael is by Thayer Gowdy, a San Francisco based photographer. Love, Scott.
You can download Folks ‘Skull & Bones’ from our forthcoming debut album ‘I See Cathedrals’ for free here. Please feel free to share. Tell all the people you know. We recorded this song at Electrosound Studios in West Hollywood, USA, with producer Luther Russell and engineer Jason Hiller. Russell himself released an album last year, The Invisible Audience which is available through ITunes. A deluxe double vinyl edition is also available here.
We are delighted to announce that we are to support Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds on their European Tour. The tour take us through Spain, Italy, Germany, France and Switzerland and the dates are here. More details to follow.
Our first date of 2012 takes place 020212 at The Borderline in London as part of HMV’s Next Big Thing and we play in support of We Are Augustines (ITUNES USA album of the year 2011) and Admiral Fallow (Top Ten band at SXSW 2011). The concert is now sold out but we will be announcing more dates soon & we hope to see you somewhere in England in 2012. We’re also set to release our debut album, I See Cathedrals this year. Eight tracks are available here.
Final photograph from our show supporting Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, The Roundhouse, London. 311111.
One of our favorite gigs, our show at The Deaf Institute, Manchester, 221111. Support for this show came from Liverpool’s The Sundowners – have a listen to their song ‘Hummingbird’ on Myspace.
