Marcus Mumford and I are in agreement. Hop Farm had the best line-up of any festival this summer. Mumford & Sons were joined by Johnny Flynn, Laura Marling, Seasick Steve, Peter Doherty, Ray Davies and Bob Dylan. But a festival is a sum of its parts. And this one was plagued with organisational oversights...
I want to write, and I want to write about music. There are, in my mind, only two types of people in this world: those who are musically talented, and those who aren't. It's those who aren't that tend to go into music writing. That's certainly why I'm here.
Hello, here’s the second installment of things-that-I-have-found-interesting-recently (pending snappier title). This week I’ve made a decision to go for a Virginia Woolf-style stream of consciousness (either that or I’ve lost my notebook with the things I planned to write about in it – you decide which explanation is more plausible). 1. There’s a rather...
Performing and recording as Pagan Wanderer Lu, Andy Regan combines his electro-indie-pop music with clever, wry and sometimes political lyrics. Andy also writes at paganwandererlu.wordpress.com and has done a turn as a guest blogger for the Independent. Here he delves into the word of songwriting, beginning with a rock-solid premise no-one could deny… It...
Fresh out of journalism school, I started FFS so I’d be able to write about the music I loved. Two years on I’m managing the site more and more and barely getting time to put pen to paper. But so much brilliant stuff comes my way it’d be criminal not to pass it on...
FFS asked you for your #bestbits of songs on twitter today — your favourite couple of seconds of music, one that makes you swoon, cry or nigh-on burst with joy. You came up with so many good suggestions that we couldn’t stop ourselves from sharing them with the world at large. Here they are...
O Brother Where Art Thou? is as much about the all-encompassing and redemptive nature of music as it is about the odyssey of the characters involved. It's an exciting, witty and often hilarious film that deserves to be watched and watched again for years to come.
Joni Mitchell – California It’s Joni Michell week here at FFS so it’s only right to start with a Joni video. This BBC session performance of California was recommended to us by Nick Hemming from The Leisure Society (he of twice-nominated-for-the-Ivors fame. Ceremony’s tonight. Cross your fingers hold your toes). Joni’s voice here is...
Mitchell, Baez and Dylan take to the stage during his Rolling Thunder Revue Of course it’s possible to go round in endless circles discussing Joni Mitchell’s recent comments about Bob Dylan’s authenticity, and whether or not they were legitimate, fair or frankly rather hypocritical coming from someone whose name is not exactly her own...
Leeds troubadour Sam Airey picks his favourite Joni tracks... One of the things I love most is the change of musical and lyrical styles throughout her career. This is noticeably apparent on 'The Hissing of Summer Lawns' - arguably one of the finest folk-jazz crossover records ever, it's one of my favourite albums, and...
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