“Please be merry, when I am buried/In the ground”. Despite recently playing for Kate n’ Wills in his native Canada, FFS favourite Dan Mangan seems a bit glum right now. Moving on from the flimsier topics (robot love and that) expressed in 2009’s Polaris-nominated Nice, Nice, Very Nice, Dan’s taking the opportunity to question...
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Portraits of Emmy the Great, Dan Mangan, Iron & Wine and Anna Calvi feature in London-based figurative painter Joe Simpson’s exhibition ‘Musician Portraits’ opening next month. The paintings will be on display from 14th – 30th October at a temporary gallery in the converted library at 16/17 Greek Street, Soho, London W1D 4DR. Entrance is...
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End of the Road, FFS’s favourite festival, has added another slew of bands to its aleady brilliant line-up. Mogwai will be joining headliners Midlake, Beirut and Laura Marling. Also confirmed are The Leisure Society, Dry The River, Joan as a Policewoman, James Yorkson, Micah P Hinson, John Grant, Jolie Holland, Timber Timbre and Willy...
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On Sunday I popped down to London Fields Radio to record the first ever FFS radio show in a cafe against a background of the clatter of crockery and the hum of Hackney-ites chatting. There’ll be a monthly-or-thereabouts show from now on, with the next one being probably the most Christmassy radio show of...
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Dan Mangan’s brilliant second album Nice, Nice Very Nice (reviewed here) is set for it’s UK release on Arts & Crafts next month, and he’ll be hitting the road to celebrate, with dates across England and Scotland. The Canadian songwriter spent the past 6 years on the road before signing to the label that...
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Two of FFS’s writers Jonathan Wilson and Robbie Hayward present Super Strings Theory, a radio show on UCL’s student radio station Rare FM. The pair have brill taste in music and their blog is well worth a look. As well as the radio shows (which you can listen to live on the website, Saturdays 2pm-4pm)...
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