We’re delighted to be tagging along with the excellent Goodnight Lenin at their show at the Sebright Arms in Hackney on Thursday night. The eight-track EP, A Winter’s Night, will be released on 7th January next year. “The band have been touring relentlessly in the last 18months and we have built up a body...
FFS is delighted to announce the tracklist for our third charity Christmas album, For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2012. We’ve got original songs from the likes of Ellen & the Escapades, Tom Williams (of ‘& the Boat’ fame) and Admiral Fallow. Some beautiful rethinking of traditional Christmas songs by Gibson Bull and Carmen, Feldspar...
Goodnight Lenin have announced the release of a second single: “A Cautionary Tale” via Static Caravan Records, due on 29th October 2012. The single will be available for digital download, alongside some special edition physical ‘gig copies’ later on. Having released both a previous single and an EP already this year, FFS reckon big...
What a silly name Beth Jeans Houghton and the Hooves of Destiny is. It’s a good job that we are fond of silliness, and that they’re really good. Their recent gig at Hoxton Bar and Grill opened with a set from the lovely Goodnight Lenin. They enchanted us with complex harmonies and storytelling lyrics,...
The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel: Goodnight Lenin wear their influences proudly on their sleeves, like shoulder patches holding a worn out jacket together. It still fits and looks rather cool, but you can’t help wondering if it’s seen better days. The Wenceslas Square is an accomplished EP – the song writing is...
A gig in a kitchen gave them their breaks – they’ve played alongside Donovan, British Sea Power and, next month, Admiral Fallow – plus the radio likes them too. The panel stepped in to check out the hype… Tom White: Fleeing through a forest with a mysterious, unidentified criminal chasing after you, grabbing at your...
In 2009 Moseley Folk Festival played host to Beth Jeans Houghton, Frida Hyvonen, Kelli Ali, Drever McCusker Woomble, Rose Elinor Dougall, Smoke Fairies and many more. They kindly got in touch to recommend we listen to Goodnight Lenin recently, and it was so good we couldn’t let them stop at that. Here are some...
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