Asgeir Trausti is just 20 years of age, but in his home country of Iceland he’s already a pretty big deal. Indeed, as the fastest-selling Icelandic debut artist of all time, a winner of the Kraumur Award and a nominee for the Nordic Music Prize, he’s a very big deal. He’s collaborated with John...
Last year, in front of an audience of people on the south bank of the river Thames, John Grant came out for the second time in his life. The first time he came out it had been as homosexual – a personal realisation, the consequences of which had informed much of the lyrics upon...
John Grant will release the follow-up to his critically-acclaimed debut album Queen of Denmark in March. Pale Green Ghosts, recorded mostly in Iceland and with electronica influences to the fore, will go on sale on March 11, with a headline show at London’s Heaven to follow two days later. There’s plenty to get music lovers...
We had to check this news three times to be sure… Midlake have announced a show on Thursday at Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen in East London. Tickets are £22.50 + booking fee from Stargreen, and go on sale at 9am on Monday morning. Midlake are in town for their 7th September concert with...
The 14th Truck Festival (22nd-24th July) will, unfortunately for FFS, be our first. We had a rough idea that something good was going on in a field in Oxford all these years, but we’ve only just been informed of the gravity of the situation. Why did no one tell us? WHY? Truck is a...
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 Yorkston, Micah P Hinson, John Grant, Jolie Holland, Timber Timbre and Willy...
Bella Union have put together a little belter of an evening at the Union Chapel on 24th June featuring some of their finest signings from recent months. These will include long-term love of FFS Alessi’s Ark, Lone Wolf (who recently supported Aidan Moffat at the Borderline) and brand-spanking new signing Mountain Man (who are,...
Queen of Denmark is amazing; the album by John Grant, that is. He and Chris Pearson from Denver have released six studio albums as The Czars and this is the first work on his own, backed by Midlake. Queen of Denmark is an honest and very frank rediscovery of himself after his combustion and...
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