The Summer Series at Somerset House is back for 2013 with an altogether more FFS-friendly line-up. Eleven open-air concerts will be held during July in the building’s stunning courtyard, a use which beats their winter ice rink hands down, in our opinion. Among the acts will be Icelandic folk-pop rousers Of Monsters and Men;...
As Suede become the latest Britpop band to hit the road on the reunion trail – sporting, it should be said, a creditable comeback album – it is slowly dawning on those of us who were there to enjoy the movement first hand that it all began almost 20 years ago. Since then, a...
Jarvis Cocker’s first project as editor-at-large at Faber and Faber is to be a history of British folk clubs. The Pulp frontman took up the role back at the start of last year and has now signed up his first commission, Singing from the Floor by JP Bean, recommended to him by fellow Sheffield...
Standing At The Sky’s Edge takes about a minute to annonce itself as a Richard Hawley album like no other you’ve ever heard before. In the 12 years since the former Longpig went solo he’s carved out a career making quiet, brooding, and beautiful albums. The last of them, 2009′s Truelove’s Gutter, was his...
With over 400 special releases planned, this year’s will easily be the biggest Record Store Day to date. We can’t imagine such a huge array of vinyl will leave anyone short of ideas, but you might just be overwhelmed by it all, so – without wishing to give away our entire shopping lists –...
Oh my, oh my. A new Richard Hawley album is always something to get excited about, but Sheffield’s most restless talent has really excelled himself this time. Whereas each of his solo records to date have delivered a stark beauty, a spare sound full of space and longing, new record Standing At The Sky’s...
Belle & Sebastian, Richard Hawley and The Civil Wars will all release limited edition vinyl, along with The Flaming Lips, David Bowie, T-Rex and almost 200 other artists, as part of this year’s Record Store Day (RSD). An unprecedented 192 stores have already signed up to stock from the almighty RSD release list, a...
Richard Hawley will release his first studio album in three years this coming May in the form of Standing At The Sky’s Edge, and he’s promising a major change in direction. Where 2009′s Truelove’s Gutter was sparse and nakedly beautiful, the new album claims to be “a euphoric, sonic assault on the senses, channelling...
Sometimes an idea comes from so far out of left field it takes you a while to realise just how perfect it is. Like Duane Eddy, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall-of-Famer who invented the famous ‘twang’ sound, recording an album with Richard Hawley, Yorkshire’s diamond from the rough. A man who has scaled the...
Some kind soul (/pirate) has put the Mumford & Sons limited edition EP that they recorded as The Wedding Band up on YouTube. It features the Mumford boys wuth Nick Etwell, Callum Lindsay, Jesse Quin, Adam Stockdale and David Williamson. Listen here. >> Mumford & Sons website | Jesse Quin’s band Mt. Desolation ....
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