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…
Tag: Sea of Bees
Blog: Helen’s Album Round-up 2010
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…
Singles: Laura Marling & Johnny Flynn, The Vaccines, Sea of Bees
The Vaccines – Wreckin’ Bar (Ra Ra Ra) ‘Wreckin Bar (Ra Ra Ra)’ by The Vaccines is one minute and twenty- four seconds of infectious guitar music, with touches of retro, surf, the 70s, lo- fi and something new. Justin…
Christmas show on London Fields Radio
In all the Christmas album hoopla, I’d almost forgotten to tell y’all a bout our Christmas radio show. I recorded it last week in sludgey Hackney with Bitter Fingers presenter and generally nice chap Mark Higgins. We delved into the…
Blog: For Folk’s Sake Radio – if you don’t like lovely, you won’t like this
On Sunday I popped down to London Fields Radio to record the first ever FFS radio show in a cafe against a background of the clatter of crockery and the hum of Hackney-ites chatting. There’ll be a monthly-or-thereabouts show from…
Schmercuries: vote now for your album of the year.
It’s the last day of voting for our Mercury spoof the Schmercury poll… Don’t miss the chance to vote for your favourite. [polldaddy poll=3586532]
Schmercuries interview series: Sea of Bees
We first came across Sea of Bees when our writer Alice Knapp saw her supporting Breath Owl Breathe in the US earlier this year. Loving what we heard on her myspace we couldn’t wait to hear her album Songs for…
Brian’s Mixtape #41: Pick of the Schmercuries 2010
This weekend we launched our Schmercury Poll – FFS’s best album award, in which we’re asking you to vote for your favourite of 12 albums released in the past year. While the FFS editors were tearing our hair out, trying…
Schmercury Awards 2010: Shortlist announced
Not one to be left out of all this Mercury spoofing, FFS is delighted to announce this year’s Schmercury Awards shortlist. We had such a hard time whittling all the fantastic albums released this year down to just 12 that…
Live review: Breathe Owl Breath @ The Fungarden, Sacramento, USA
There’s something about America that leads venue owners to supply junk food alongside live music — and so a few weeks ago I found myself watching folk bands at a pizza place. Noise and tomatoey smells drifted across from the…