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Brian’s Mixtape#38: School’s Out for Summer

Brian — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:00:24 +0000

This is a time of year that Brian always anticipates with dread. At the end of the week, all the schools will spew out their charges onto British summertime and there will be no peace in the daytime for self-respecting owls to get a bit of snooze time. On the plus-side, there’ll be a lot of happy kinder and a lot of very happy teachers having a few well-deserved weeks off.

Brian also says he’s noticed that most full-grown adults start behaving like they’re also on their summer holidays: lazing off a bit at work, taking themselves off abroad, and craving new stationery supplies towards the end of August. He’s put together a collection of songlets that he feels encapsulate this time of year, in the hope that you’ll all get at least a taste of what these 6 weeks of freedom used to mean when you were little.

He also says that he knows that he’s made a Belle & Sebastian sandwich, but that that was his intention and if anyone’s got a problem with it, they can darn well press ‘shuffle’. Here it is, for your enjoyment: Brian’s Mixtape #38: School’s Out for Summer

1. Belle & Sebastian – A Summer Wasting
2. Herman Düne – In the Summer Camp
3. Rufus Wainwright – The Art Teacher
4. Emiliana Torrini – Unemployed in Summertime
5. The White Stripes – We’re Going to be Friends
6. Dodgy – Staying Out for the Summer
7. The Kinks – Sunny Afternoon
8. Weezer – Island in the Sun
9. The Lovin’ Spoonful – Summer in the City
10. The Duckworth Lewis Method – Flatten the Hay
11. Ash – Oh Yeah
12. Belle & Sebastian – Here Comes the Sun

Spotify is now freeeee. You can download it here for access to tons and tons of free music. FFS has just splashed out for Spotify Premium and sadly admits that you really do notice the difference in sound quality. Vandross and Jackson are a pair of filthy liars.

PS For those who can’t get Spotify, we’re trying out this new website, let us know if it is of any use to you: Listen on Playlistify.

Brian’s Mixtape #35: Leave the Animals Out of It

Brian — Tue, 25 May 2010 10:35:10 +0000

Following a delectable week of Joni Mitchell, Brian’s allowed his hippy side out of the oak tree for a pad around the forest floor. Now, don’t get Brian wrong: he’s not about to give up his beloved dormouse suppers. He has been thinking a lot about lentil-munching, Haribo-avoiding vegetarians a lot over the weekend, and for that reason he began to notice some interesting messages in many of his favourite songs.

Some are rather subtle, others (Morrissey, we’re looking at you) not so subtle, but all the songs in his playlist this week are in some way related to taking care of the animals, and not eating them. No need to follow the moral imperative though – Brian certainly isn’t – just enjoy the fact that, on top of sharing a theme, they’re all pucker songs.

1. Herman Dune – Pet Rabbit
2. God Help the Girl – Musician, Please Take Heed
3. The Smiths – Meat is Murder
4. Jeffrey Lewis – Life
5. The Beach Boys – Vegetables
6. Anton Barbeau – Quorn Fingers
7. Belle and Sebastian – Meat & Potatoes
8. Of Montreal – Vegan in Furs
9. The Pernice Brothers – Cruelty to Animals
10. Butcher Boy – React or Die
11. Willy Mason – Where the Humans Eat
12. Efterklang – Prey and Predator

Click the link for the Spotify playlist: Brian’s Mixtape #35: Leave the Animals Out of it

Spotify has finally heard Brian’s pleas for a free service and launched Spotify Open, which is rather lucky as the kind folk who’ve been donating their Spotify invites to you readers seem to be running out a bit now. Download Spotify Open.

Brian’s been making these playlists for as long as he can remember. If you’d like to catch up on his previous efforts, take a look at our mixtape section.

End of the Road line-up proper swoon-worthy

Helen True — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:35:55 +0000

End of the Road has a very special place in the hearts and minds of the FFS collective, as it was at this splendid festival last year that we began spreading the love that is our website. EOTR 2008 was just lovely – small, brilliantly curated and covered in fairy lights and ribbons. See our write-up here. This year looks set to be even more folktastic, if such a feat is possible.

We’ll just share the biggest and most exciting names on the line-up with you so that our wee fingers don’t fall off. Here goes: Fleet Foxes, Explosions in the Sky, Mumford and Sons, The Acorn, Broken Family Band, Herman Dune, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, First Aid Kit and Darren Hayman. The thought of not going has caused some music lovers at FFS HQ to cry over their cupcakes.

End of the Road takes place from the 11th to 13th of September at Larmer Tree Gardens in North Dorset. For information, tickets, and to meet the EOTR peacock, click here.

Words: Helen True

Jeff Lewis, Herman Dune, Laura Marling and more for Union Chapel gig

Lynn Roberts — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:43:38 +0000

Platforms:live has announced a corker of an all-day gig at London’s Union Chapel on 21st February, which it has christened Owl Parliament.

The confirmed line up so far includes Brooklyn anti-folker Jeffrey Lewis, French geniuses Herman Düne, and FFS stalwarts Johnny Flynn, Laura Marling, Stars of Sunday League and Peggy Sue.

Platforms:live is the promotions arm of Platforms Magazine, a once online publication, which is currently looking for donations in order to be able to launch its first physical issue.

Tickets for Owl Parliament will be available from 9am on Friday 16th January from Ticketweb.

FFS is well excited. We hope you are too.

Words: Lynn Roberts

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Herman Dune book UK December dates

Lynn Roberts — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:26:14 +0000

Herman Dune have announced they are to return to the UK for six live dates in December.

The tour, sponsored by Green Man on Tour, will begin on 13th December. Support comes from Baby Skins.

The dates are as follows:

13/12 Deaf Institute, Manchester
14/12 Stereo, Glasgow
15/12 Brudnell Social Club, Leeds
16/12 Thekla, Bristol
17/12 Scala, London
18/12 Duke Of Yorks, Brighton

Herman Dune’s album, Next Year In Zion, was released in October.

Words: Lynn Roberts

Herman Dune

Lynn Roberts — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:29:29 +0000

Herman Dune: are a French/Swedish/Swiss/Israeli antifolk/surf/grunge gaggle of brilliance.

They Say: \\”the blight of the fumble bee\\”.

Influences: Leiber & Stoller, Chuck Berry, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Carole King.

Current Band Members: David-Ivar Herman Düne (guitars and vocals), Néman Herman Düne (drums).

Previous Band Members: André Herman Düne

Discography:

Turn Off The Light (2000, Prohibited Records)

They Go To The Woods (2001, Shrimper Records)

Switzerland Heritage (2001, Prohibited Records)

The Whys And The Hows of Herman Düne & Cerberus Shoal (2002, North East indie)

Mas Cambios (2003, The Track & Field Organisation)

Mash Concrete Metal Mushroom (2003, Shrimper Records)

Jackson Heights (2005, The Track & Field Organisation)

Not On Top (2005, The Track & Field Organisation)

Giant (2006, Source Etc.)

Next Year In Zion (Fall 2008, Source Etc., Everloving Records, Cityslang)

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