Sea of Bees – Jules Baenziger and Amber Padget – have been one of our favourite bands for a while. Their strange and beautiful debut Songs for the Ravens has been played to death at FFS HQ, so we’ve been waiting with bated breath for the release of the follow up Orangefarben. Jules told FFS: “Orangefarben is really direct –...
The lovely Sea of Bees, a.k.a. Julie Baenziger, sat down with us on a sunny day in Shoreditch to talk about her new album Orangefarben, first love, music, life and happiness. FFS: How does Orangefarben differ from your first album, Songs for the Ravens? SoB: Songs for the Ravens was more of an experiment, it was my...
Following the success of her debut album “Songs for the Ravens”, Julie Ann Baenziger (or better known as Sea of Bees), has announced the release of her second album titled; “Orangefarben”. The album is set to be released on the 9th April 2012, and contains 10 solid tracks highlighted with guitar, bass and lots...
Bandstand Busking have put together another stonking line-up for a free show at the Northampton Square bandstand in London this Sunday. Peggy Sue, Sea of Bees and Veronica Falls will play the show, which starts at 2pm. There are more details on the Bandstand Busking facebook. This is Sea of Bees playing Strikefoot for The...
Sea of Bees, aka Julie Ann Bee, is a musical entity so adorable you want to cuddle her, but her haunting, elegiac melodies leave you in no doubt she's seen a bit of life - and boy has it hurt sometimes.
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...
There’s something of the Scandinavian about Julie Baenziger and her one-woman band, Sea of Bees, which may come as a surprise to this Californian native but I can assure her that it’s a compliment. Perhaps it’s the ethereal quality to her voice or her penchant for the deep twinkly sound that our European cousins...
It’s radio a go-go round these parts. On Sunday I did my third set of recommendations for the marvellous Poison Oak show on Spark fm. Here’s what I suggested the good folk of Sunderland might like to take a listen to… The Holy Modal Rounders, who were a folk/punk duo from New York who...
It’s hardly news to FFS’s regular readers that Brian’s a pretty inconsistent character. He flits about, willy-nilly, with little concern for the wellbeing of his mixtape devotees. You might be relieved to hear that he’s turning over a new Horse Chestnut leaf in 2011, but that relief might be short-lived when you realise he’s...
When I was an undergraduate we would sometimes play the ‘would you rather…’ game. Andy and Maggie play it in Extras (‘Would you rather be a penguin who’s a bird but can’t fly or a flying fish that’s a fish that can fly a bit?’, for example). I once asked the table (all literature...
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