Emmy The Great has been added to the line-up for the Truck Festival, which will already feature The Temper Trap, Mystery Jets, Villagers, and The Low Anthem among many others. Emmy, who played at Hill Farm in 2008 and 2006,…
Tag: Emmy The Great
Emmy the Great, or Emma-Lee Moss if you like things official, sings beautiful-sounding songs with dark, tortured souls. Her first album, ‘First Love’, was released on Close Harbour in 2009 and her second album, ‘Virtue’, was self-released in 2011. She released a Christmas album with Tim Wheeler of Ash (with whom she is in a relationship) in 2011. Find news, reviews, interviews and tour dates for Emmy the Great on For Folk’s Sake.
Live | Emmy the Great @ Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a great band in possession of incredible songs must be in want of a string section. Emmy the Great is just such an act, and FFS is delighted to report that she +…
Playlist | Brian’s Mixtape #46: the Return of the Owl
Our pompous old playlist-making owl Brian is back. With some bombastic pose, dubious claims about his whereabouts in the past year and a playlist of 2011’s gems. How we’ve missed the silly thing.
News | Emmy the Great announces live dates
Fresh from a Christmas that we like to think looked exactly like this, Emmy the Great has announced a string of live appearances. Emmy will play 4 dates in mainland Europe this month, and a one-off London show in…
Album | Emmy The Great & Tim Wheeler – This Is Christmas
In a year with more full-length festive offerings than any in recent memory, there has still been something essentially ‘Christmassy’ missing. She & Him provided the Midnight Mass feeling – respectful, stately, something you can be sure your Gran will…
Live | Emmy the Great @ Wrexham Central Station, 06/10/11
I’ve recently had reason to move back to my childhood home, an event I regarded with no little trepidation. Aside from the obvious benefit of rent-free accommodation with meals thrown in, my teenage memories are of a musical wasteland punctuated…
Christmas things: Emmy the Great, She & Him, Slow Club, Carole King
FFS is sorry, very sorry, to be bringing you Christmas news this early*. We don’t want you to think of us like Tesco, ringing out cynical jingle bells from mid-October, or Boots pushing their Christmas sandwiches when it’s still balmy…
News | Portraits of Emmy the Great, Iron & Wine, Dan Mangan go on show
Portraits of Emmy the Great, Dan Mangan, Iron & Wine and Anna Calvi feature in London-based figurative painter Joe Simpson’s exhibition ‘Musician Portraits’ opening next month. The paintings will be on display from 14th – 30th October at a temporary…
Interview | Schmercury best album nominee Emmy the Great
Emmy the Great’s Virtue is a devastatingly brutal and beautiful record about the break up of a relationship. There was no way we could fail to recognise it in this year’s best album list. FFS’s Rory Dollard said: “Sparse closing…
Playlist | Schmercuries 2011
Listen to music from all 12 Schmercury nominees, using our handy Spotify playlist and a few lovely links.