Last weekend I went out in London’s trendy Dalston with our Live Editor, Helen. She takes me out every year or two to remind me that I don’t like it much in fancy pubs with copies of Wired magazine for wallpaper and significant sound systems. I like it up a tree by myself. We...
When sister site of the Yellow Bird Project, analog.am approached us and asked us if we’d like to pick our favourite albums for an FFS-themed vinyl shelf, it was a foregone conclusion. There is nothing Team FFS likes more than pondering our favourite records. When you’re in your front room with a glass of...
Stevie Jackson has had an illustrious career. Not content with an enormously successful 16 years with genre-defining band Belle and Sebastian, he’s played with the Bill Wells Trio, The Store Keys and regularly lends his guitar skills to iconic Scottish band, The Vaselines. In his words, it’s been ‘an interesting adventure’. Now, this...
Dear readers, You may have suspected that I would jump on the sporting bandwagon and create a playlist around the greatest of all competition anthems, Vangelis’ Chariots of Fire because of the ‘Games’ that people are getting all worked up about. But I would never be so mundane, as every other publication’s playlist engineer...
As massive Belle and Sebastian fans (no surprises there), FFS were pretty keen to hear this album from their adorable guitarist Stevie Jackson. He is adorable in a sort of scatty-uncle-who-tells-the-best-stories-in-awkward-family-situations kind of way, and the inoffensive charm in his lyrics and tunes shines through in every track on ‘(I Can’t Get No) Stevie...
Good afternoon, friends, Naturally owls know better than to get caught in the rain, so I am fluffed up by the fire with a hot buttered rum. Since you’re probably about to brave the outside with one of those horrific umbrella things that don’t even keep the water off your middles, I thought I’d...
How Does It Feel To Be Loved, a club night described by Laura Barton of the Guardian as “Absolutely the best night in the whole of the world!”, is ten years old this weekend. With a tag-line of ‘From the Smiths to the Supremes’ it’s the music policy that shapes the club; indie-pop and...
Good afternoon all, Apologies for my absence; no doubt there were many enquiries as to my whereabouts, though I am far too busy to check. Suffice to say that I have been travelling and learning life lessons for the benefit of us all. I feel obliged to report the strangest occurence on my journey....
Belle & Sebastian, Richard Hawley and The Civil Wars will all release limited edition vinyl, along with The Flaming Lips, David Bowie, T-Rex and almost 200 other artists, as part of this year’s Record Store Day (RSD). An unprecedented 192 stores have already signed up to stock from the almighty RSD release list, a...
Dear readers, My apologies for this playlist’s tardiness, for an owl likes to be prompt, but some distant cousins came to stay over the weekend and they caused too much carnage for me to turn a blind eye to the mess for even a minute. I spent all yesterday re-alphabetising my first day...
#80 She & Him - I Could've Been Your Girl May 22nd, 2013
#79 Ane Brun - This Voice 2013 May 21st, 2013
#78 Natalie Evans - Library Days May 20th, 2013