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Festival Preview: Truck
The 14th Truck Festival (22nd-24th July) will, unfortunately for FFS, be our first. We had a rough idea that something good was going on in a field in Oxford all these years, but we’ve only just been informed of the…
Festival review: Honeyfest
There’s a new contender for the UK’s loveliest small festival. Honeyfest was organised after villiagers in the Wiltshire town of Pewsey were given lottery funding to take over the running of their local pub, The Barge Inn. As well as…
Brill mini-festival alert: Laura Marling and Dry the River for Honeyfest
FFS’s actual favourite Laura Marling is taking a trip to Wiltshire next month to play Honeyfest at the Barge Inn along with Dry the River and the Magic Numbers. The day-long festival was launched after a small village community were…
Editor’s picks… Tallest Man on Earth, The Mountain Goats, This is the Kit, Leisure Society + free MP3s
1.The Tallest Man on Earth‘s 2010 album The Wild Hunt has hardly been off the FFS stereo in the past couple of months. Kristian Matsson is Swedish and of average height with a gift for proper songwriting. There’s no flourishes…
End of the Road line-up: Marling, Mogwai, Midlake, Mangan
End of the Road, FFS’s favourite festival, has added another slew of bands to its aleady brilliant line-up. Mogwai will be joining headliners Midlake, Beirut and Laura Marling. Also confirmed are The Leisure Society, Dry The River, Joan as a…
Singles: Admiral Fallow, Toy Horses & Dry The River
Admiral Fallow – These Barren Years Somehow managing to please both nu-folkies and drive-time rock lovers, Admiral Fallow’s new single sings of life in Scottish schools with all the brashness, insecurities and melancholy that come with such a package. “Line…
10 questions with… Dry the River
Hello there. We’re a rag-tag band of waifs and strays based in Stratford, East London. The music question is a difficult one to answer, a reviewer in the Netherlands recently described it as “folk with balls” and “beautiful hardcore” which I suppose sounds a bit schizophrenic but maybe sums it up.