With their long drapes of hair and songs dotted with twangling loopy bits and swooping girl-trio harmonies, Stealing Sheep are a bit of a throwback to hippydom, but they have more than retro appeal going for them. Noah and the Paper Moon feels fresh and playful, with beautifully textured tracks that are lifted out...
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Brighton-based collective Willkommen announce line-up for third annual Foxtrot festival held at stately home Stanmer House. Peggy Sue and Alessi's ark will support headliners Herman Dune, alongside Sam Amidon, Nancy Elizabeth, This is the Kit and Hannah Peel.
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This is far from the first time FFS has seen Alessi Laurent-Marke perform live, but it might as well be. The shy girl whose last two gigs in Leeds were the lowest of low-key affairs in the corner of a noisy bar, Alessi stumbling over her lyrics as she performed alone, has gone. The...
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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 gravity of the situation. Why did no one tell us? WHY? Truck is a...
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‘Oh by now I must’ve grown’, sings Alessi Laurent-Marke on her second album Time Travel. And she has. Her writing, her melodies, the playing, the whole ambience of this album is stronger, more mature and simply wonderful. She’s yet to turn 21 but, like her contemporaries and friends – you know, that lot, the...
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Put two uber-talented 20-year-olds together and what do you get? Well in this case it’s a tricycle-filled music video in which every frame and note is a beaut. Artistic wonderwoman Anika Mottershaw and dream-folk darling Alessi Laurent-Marke got together to produce the video for new Alessi’s Ark song ‘Wire’. The song is taken from...
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Hurraaaaaaaaaaaay! Alessi and her Ark, whom FFS has loved for many years, has announced the release of her second album Time Travel. Since the release of her debut album Notes from the Treehouse, Alessi has shared the stage with the who’s who of UK folk including Laura Marling, Mumford & Sons, Peggy Sue and...
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While sat barefooted on the tatami mats in Kyoto’s Cafe Yugue (home to arguably the best bagels in all of Japan. Seriously.), FFS filmed Alessi’s Ark at her first Japanese gig. Alessi was accompanied on a few songs by fellow British folkster Rachael Dadd, and here they perform ‘The Robot’ from the Soul Proprietor EP.
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FFS turned two last month, and while we don’t like to make a fuss, it’s made us a tad reflective. Especially Brian, who’s a sentimental sort of owl. He has been remembering all the beautiful music he’s listened to over the past couple of years and has concluded that it has made his life...
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If you’re on the look for a laid-back festival with a bit of class, look no further than the intriguingly named Deer Shed Festival, a one day festival (camping’s an optional extra) taking place at Baldersley Park, North Yorkshire on 17th July. It’s one for all the family, but they’ve not compromised on quality...
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