Howie Payne, former front man of The Stands, will unveil his latest solo work as he begins a short UK tour by appearing in Leeds as part of a show put on by Ellen Smith of FFS favourites Ellen & The Escapades. Payne, who released his Ethan Johns-produced solo debut Bright Light Ballads in...
John Murry, previously a collaborator with Bob Frank on their album of murder ballads World Without End, spent four years recording his remarkable solo debut album The Graceless Age, but it was a lifetime in the making. The musical telling of his complicated but...
New Orleans is a city that teems with music. It rings out on every street corner, from the French quarter to the Garden district, through Treme to the battered and bruised Ninth Ward. There’s a musician on every street corner and why not? They...
Joe Innes & The Cavalcade launched their new single ‘Fables‘ with a big bash in Farringdon, inviting FFS favourites Dave Gerard, the Worry Dolls and comedian Malcolm Head along for the party. And of course, given that our editor Lynn is part of Joe’s...
Anna Scouten is a young and extremely talented singer-songwriter from Canada. A mesmerising performer with a beautiful voice, she has steadily built up a strong following on YouTube and, if the songs recorded in her bedroom are anything to go by, the self-titled debut...
Frank Turner’s new album starts in the same place as his first one: a stranger’s house. This time he’s “Blacking in and out in a strange flat in east London… a long way back to the light”, not far from that “sofa in an...
The British summer may be getting off to a non-existent start but summery things are happening – English weather be damned – starting with one of our favourite festivals of the year, The Great Escape. Champion of the little guy, this new music festival...
Our favourite chap Johnny Flynn has announces a string of rare solo dates across the UK. Taking a break from being a big-shot stage actor, Johnny will be hitting London, Manchester, Glasgow and Bristol on a mini-tour. Tickets go on sale this Friday 17th...
The Magnetic North are re-releasing their debut album with an accompanying film, ‘Hunting For Remoteness’. Orkney: Symphony of the Magnetic North, a collaboration between Erland Cooper from Erland & The Carnival, Hannah Peel and Simon Tong (The Verve, Gorillaz), was first released last year to wide...
Here at FFS we’ve been super fans of Alessi’s Ark – aka Alessi Laurent-Marke – since the very beginning. We should probably have a badge or something. We first caught wind of Alessi when she was a whip of a thing charming tiny pubs...
The crammed-in crowd of eager ears awaiting The James Riley Band’s set tonight at The Bedroom Bar demonstrates a pay-off for the hard work in the lead up to the launch of the debut, Lay Me Down EP. “You met me at a festival,...
The Summer Series at Somerset House is back for 2013 with an altogether more FFS-friendly line-up. Eleven open-air concerts will be held during July in the building’s stunning courtyard, a use which beats their winter ice rink hands down, in our opinion. Among the...
Let me get the negative out of the way right off the bat: this was a gig to forget. And I think no-one would like to forget it more than Lissie. It was unprofessional and downright disappointing. If that’s enough negative for you, please...
Thea Gilmore’s return, following the birth of her second child, brings with it a 14th studio album in as many years which finds her on top of her game. Gilmore herself admits the time she took away from music helped refresh her approach to...
The town of Jackson, Tennessee sits just a little west of the midway point on a long stretch of Interstate 40 which goes by the name of the Music Highway. It is where Carl Perkins came of age, and it is home to the...
The sixth album of Iron & Wine, the pseudonym of all American Samuel Beam, opens with the industrial sounds of a construction works, only then to jump into a gorgeous guitar intro reminiscent of previous albums. Ghost on Ghost, though feels distinctly different to...
You may not recognise the name, but chances are you know who Jonny Fritz is. We can throw out there his former stage name Jonny Corndawg, and perhaps we’ll still get a few blank expressions, but the name Caitlin Rose should do the trick....
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