For those of us who aren’t at Green Man this weekend, we’ve put together a Spotify playlist for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own home. Maybe listen to it in the bath to really bite your thumb at our unwashed nemeses, those lucky few (okay 15,000) ticketholders. Featuring Slow Club The...
Communion records have announced the release of a brand new compilation titled “New Faces”. Being the brainchild of Ben Lovett (Mumford and Sons), Kevin Jones and Ian Grimble, Communion have been putting on monthly shows of their favourite up and coming artists for over 3 years now, in locations such as London, Manchester, Leeds...
Debut albums always represent the end of a long journey for any artist. Hopefully the beginning of one too, but definitely an ending – a point at which they have realised a long held dream and compiled that defining first collection. Rarely, though, has a listener come full circle by the time the debut...
There is a very real sense of expectation as queues snake away from the front of the Brudenell Social Club. Expectation not only that inside will be considerably warmer than the freezing winter temperatures of the car park, but that we might be about to see someone special. Since Michael Kiwanuka first wowed us...
Michael Kiwanuka has taken time out from his sold-out UK tour to announce…another UK tour. The London singer-songwriter hit the road last week as he gets ready for the release of his debut album Home Again next month. But he will be heading back out again in May for eight more shows, taking in...
Michael Kiwanuka stands on the precipice in 2012. The two EPs with which he introduced himself last year, Tell Me A Tale and I’m Getting Ready earned an avalanche of praise, including plenty here, and deservedly so, for few songs were as instantly arresting as ‘Tell Me A Tale’. Kiwanuka releases his third EP,...
Both Ben Howard & Michael Kiwanuka were last week announced as guests of Coldplay’s Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland’s special ‘Little Noise Session‘, originally curated by Radio 1′s Jo Whiley, at St John-at-Hackney Church, East London. The night scheduled is Thursday 24th November and the evening is in aid of Mencap. Tickets for the show...
Comparisons have been made between Michael Kiwanuka’s music and that of soul legends like Bill Withers. These comparisons are surely merited, as Kiwanuka constructs simple, steady, and heartfelt songs. He prefers to ensure that he has an earnest voice to creating something overly elaborate. Michael Kiwanuka’ latest EP I’m Getting Ready is very calm...
I need to go and see Michael Kiwanuka in person. Only then might I believe he exists, at least in the form we’re told of. Surely it’s more plausible that, rather than being a 23-year-old Londoner, he’s now an aging soul man living in one of America’s great old cities – perhaps Philadelphia or...
FFS's photoreporter Sapphire Mason-Brown headed to Bushstock at the weekend and caught performances from Peggy Sue, Daughter, Michael Kiwanuka, Marques Toliver and more...
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