Tag: The Miserable Rich

Album | The Miserable Rich – Overcome

Tough times can overcome you, and they can be overcome. Every story is different, but the chances of finding a way through are much stronger with the love and support of family and friends. And that was the backdrop for…

FFS Advent Calendar Door Two | Smoke Fairies – Simple Feeling

The Snowflakes Christmas Singles Club are unleashing a veritable feast of sounds for fans of a quality Christmas song, with four (snow white, of course) 7″s hitting the shelves of fine record shops everywhere this week to celebrate the festive…

Singles round-up | Los Campesinos!, The Miserable Rich, Grass House, Lupen Crook, Ellen & The Escapades

Los Campesinos! – Hello Sadness Heading up the singles round-up this week is the title track from Los Campesinos!’ forthcoming album Hello Sadness. Nearly every song on that album is catchy enough for its own release but perhaps a little…

Tour: Tristram & Laish

It’s no secret that FFS are stonking great big fans of Tristram.  Of course we are.  The man makes the most heart-searing noises with his bare mouth.  We liked his ‘Someone Told Me a Poem’ EP so much we raved…

Brian’s Mixtape #45: Brian’s Album Round-up 2010

It’s hardly news to FFS’s regular readers that Brian’s a pretty inconsistent character.  He flits about, willy-nilly, with little concern for the wellbeing of his mixtape devotees.  You might be relieved to hear that he’s turning over a new Horse…

Blog: Helen’s Album Round-up 2010

When I was an undergraduate we would sometimes play the ‘would you rather…’ game. Andy and Maggie play it in Extras (‘Would you rather be a penguin who’s a bird but can’t fly or a flying fish that’s a fish…

The Miserable Rich Tour and Album

This is, by necessity, a brief and information-packed news item, because The Miserable Rich are on tour right now and will stop being on 19th June.  They are fantastically talented musicians with a proclivity for reviving old, neglected instruments whilst…

EP: The Miserable Rich – Covers

Having only released their debut album earlier this year, it is quite remarkable that the still relatively unknown quantity that is The Miserable Rich carry with them such a recognisably distinctive and uniquely personal sound through a combination of James…

Interview: The Miserable Rich

The Miserable Rich – yet another marvellous band from Brighton’s Willkommen Collective – have just released their brilliant Covers EP with new takes on songs by Iggy Pop and the Eurithmics. Frontman James de Malplaquet answered our questions.