Predicting the quality of a band’s live performance based upon the music they’ve selected to play in the interim time has become almost second nature to me. I know all those wise things about not judging a book by its cover, but when the grand operatics of Michael Jackson’s ‘Will You Be There’ fill...
Previous experience has taught me that the addition of anything resembling a string section to a live show can only ever be a very good thing. In fact, just a single violin can do the trick, and luckily for me, and the rest of the sold-out audience filling Cambridge’s Junction tonight, the latter is...
The Living Room is a brilliant little evening of music that occurs (usually) on the first Friday of each month in the basement of a bistro in the less glamorous end of Cambridge town. It’s probably the city’s best-kept musical secret, and there’s no avoiding the feeling that you’re being let in on something...
Almost a year since his last appearance on our fair shores, Willy Mason will be returning to the UK in September for a brief spell to support Isobel Campbell on her European tour. A peppering of acoustic headline shows intersperse his supporting stint: 8th September: Glasgow – ABC (with Isobel Campbell) 10th September: London...
It’s no secret that FFS has more than a little love for “the next poster boy of the nu-folk scene” (we can thank the Times for that one), and his marvellous new album Been Listening has only increased this affection. Plaid shirts and enviable musical connections aside, Johnny Flynn’s music is...
It’s the day before he and his band, The Sussex Wit, are due to embark on a tour of England to promote his new album, Been Listening, and Johnny Flynn is sporting an inconveniently sore throat. Happily, he manages to suppress this for long enough to deliver some disarmingly thoughtful answers to FFS’s questions…...
You may not realise it, but you’ve probably seen Pete Roe’s face more than once. He has been a regular feature of Laura Marling’s live band for quite some time, and last Autumn played the roles of both supporting act and roadie for brothers-in-the-folk Mumford & Sons. With the support of the fine fellows...
Gone are the wispy, brittle songs of Alas I Cannot Swim. Twenty-year-old Marling’s second album, I Speak Because I Can, is simmering with a certain confidence in style that seems to have replaced the endearing tenderness of the debut. ‘Rambling Man’, the third single from the record, epitomises this newfound, much-welcomed maturity to be...
Following last month’s release of details about their imminent new album, Peggy Sue are embarking on a month-long tour of Europe in support of The Archie Bronson Outfit. Upon their return to the UK in May, they’ll be heading off on their own adventure which will take them to venues which include the Royal...
It’s been two long years since the accomplished debut A Larum was ardently welcomed to our ears, so it’s with joy that we receive news of Johnny Flynn’ second album. Entitled Been Listening and to be released on 7th June this year through Transgressive Records, it will feature collaborations with Laura Marling and Anna...
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