Laura Marling - Flicker and Fail (BBC Folk Awards)

[mrkcollinson]

She is just something else. Joni Mitchell, eat your heart out.

[husker666]

Think joni would have been proud if she'd written this one and yes it is that good!

[dramatized3ll]

I hope this is on her new ALBUM!!

[JacobJTColey]

@dramatized3ll If you are in the UK, you can only purchase this song if you pre-order the album off itunes, I don't know of any other way to get it sorry:/

[CammyS12342]

i would marry this woman....and i'm a girl.

[alyssahill49]

@CammyS12342

EXACTLY!

[DjangoClouds]

Her website says,

"Anyway, at the ceremony she only went and performed a, in its current form, brand new-newbie tentatively titled ‘Flicker and Fail’…

We say ‘in its current’ form because the foundations of this song were in fact laid down via a battered old (but still surviving!) Yamaha guitar over 30 years ago by LM’s own father. LM has revived and tinkered with the lyrics and melody somewhat and shaped it into something old but new. Now ain’t that folk?"

[MARxSx]

does anyone know the tuning?

is it the usual dadf#ad, because i'm not quite sure

[RevKillianaire]

Anybody know anything about this song?

[LElliott1979]

Hope someone is able to rip the video before it disappears off the bbc site.

Laura is the best songwriter since Elliott Smith. She's THAT good!

[timthegeneral]

@LElliott1979 this is the greatest comment ive ever seen you are smarter then most

[daveaitch]

Cracking, faultless performance. One of THE highlights of the awards. Thanks Laura!

[welshdevondragon]

Thanks for putting this up! SO annoyed not to be able to access the video on bbc website. This starts/ sounds a bit like the Looking Back song her Dad wrote which she sang on Zane Lowe. It's so good- does anyone know when the album is due?

[sparkle712]

@welshdevondragon there is a link to her website on the fb post, on the site it says that this is a re-working of a song that her father wrote, so you are right!