Artist: Field Music

It’s the last day of voting for our Mercury spoof the Schmercury poll… Don’t miss the chance to vote for your favourite.
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Field Music's incredibly varied album Measure is, in FFS's humble opinion, the best of their career. So we nominated it for our annual best album prize, the Schmercuries. (There's still time to vote for your favourite album below.) David Brewis from the band took some time out to answer our questions...
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The Green Man promised magic and he didn’t disappoint. Once again the organisers pulled off the spectacular trick of attracting the friendliest festival crowd to the most laid-back festival there is, while enticing some of the weirdest and most wonderful bands out there to perform. Manchester krautrockers Plank get the party started in fine...
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This weekend we launched our Schmercury Poll – FFS’s best album award, in which we’re asking you to vote for your favourite of 12 albums released in the past year.  While the FFS editors were tearing our hair out, trying to whittle down the huge pile of wonderful albums released this year to our...
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Not one to be left out of all this Mercury spoofing, FFS is delighted to announce this year’s Schmercury Awards shortlist. We had such a hard time whittling all the fantastic albums released this year down to just 12 that we had to have a sit down with some tea and Belle & Sebastian...
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Well this is a bit of a surprise… some of FFS’s favourite bands seem to have been secretly lined-up to play Eastleigh Music Festival in our home county of Hampshire. Peggy Sue, Haunted Stereo, Field Music and Badly Drawn Boy will all be playing shows at the weekend event. The festival takes places at...
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We’ve gone through the folkier end of the festival calender, and hereby bring you our picks. You won’t find any news on Glastonbury or Reading and Leeds, mind. We’re here to tell you about the things you might not have heard about yet. And what a selection there is this year. You can see...
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Readers, we’re a little worried. After his absence a couple of weeks ago, Brian’s been acting a bit strangely. He used to be such a lovely tidy, polite owl but now Brian’s stomping about like a petulant teenager, his roost is an absolute shambles and he’s taken to shouting “boring” whenever he loses interest...
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Field Music’s (Measure) is one of those releases at the start of a musical new year that come out quietly though deserve to erupt like foam does on a bathtub. Being such a kaleidoscope of textures and such a versatile canvas of sounds, it is one of those works that, besides being a double...
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