Blog: The Blue Walrus

Last year saw the emergence of a group of South London folkies, interconnected and explicitly good, and they created, defined and redefined the conceptions of 'folk' music for a new audience. Pioneers like Noah And The Whale, Laura Marling and Johnny Flynn are all still going strong, and we still really like them (in case you haven't noticed), but their genre redefinition is complete for the moment, and I've found myself wondering where folk might go next. But if 2008 and the beginning of 2009 was a period of these indie folksters, let me be the first one [...]