Fresh from a Christmas that we like to think looked exactly like this, Emmy the Great has announced a string of live appearances. Emmy will play 4 dates in mainland Europe this month, and a one-off London show in March. The last UK headline show for her excellent album Virtue. Then at the...
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In a year with more full-length festive offerings than any in recent memory, there has still been something essentially ‘Christmassy’ missing. She & Him provided the Midnight Mass feeling – respectful, stately, something you can be sure your Gran will appreciate while enjoying the pageantry of it yourself; Michael Buble’s set of holiday standards...
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I’ve recently had reason to move back to my childhood home, an event I regarded with no little trepidation. Aside from the obvious benefit of rent-free accommodation with meals thrown in, my teenage memories are of a musical wasteland punctuated only by the dubious delights of the International Eisteddfod. Imagine my relief to find...
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FFS is sorry, very sorry, to be bringing you Christmas news this early*. We don’t want you to think of us like Tesco, ringing out cynical jingle bells from mid-October, or Boots pushing their Christmas sandwiches when it’s still balmy outside. We’re not like that. Really we’re not. But the fact is that some...
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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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Emmy the Great’s Virtue is a devastatingly brutal and beautiful record about the break up of a relationship. There was no way we could fail to recognise it in this year’s best album list. FFS’s Rory Dollard said: “Sparse closing track ‘Trellick Tower’ – beautifully rendered with bare piano and a single bruised voice...
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Listen to music from all 12 Schmercury nominees, using our handy Spotify playlist and a few lovely links.
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On the eve of the Mercury poll, FFS have put together a list of our 12 favourite folk-tinged albums of the past year for our very own Schmercury prize. We’re going to do things a little differently this year, and we’ll be awarding TWO prizes. The Readers’ Choice, for the album YOU vote for...
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Emma-Lee Moss, the girl who puts the great into Emmy, is back to with a second album that is sure to build on the devoted fan-base she won with 2009’s memorable First Love. Her breakthrough back then was considerable. Not Mumford massive, maybe, and perhaps not as ubiquitous as the Marling masses. But for...
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Here at FFS we’re so excited about Emmy the Great’s new album Virtue, that we just can’t wait until it’s release date (13th June) for you to share the joy. Happily Ms The Great has made a couple of tracks available to hear online. One of which is this lovely video for the single...
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