Kristian Matsson, aka The Tallest Man on Earth, has had enough of the endless Bob Dylan comparisons. Told that his third full album, There’s No Leaving Now, has been branded his Bringing It All Back Home because of its expanded…
Category: Interviews
Interview | The Mynabirds’ Laura Burhenn starts a new revolution
The Mynabirds’ Laura Burhenn has a novel method of avoiding second-album syndrome: write it before you’ve written your debut. So it was with Generals, technically the follow-up to 2010’s What We Lose In The Fire We Gain In The Flood…
Interview | Introducing… Rae Morris
Rae Morris is a 19-year-old musician from Blackpool (UK), and team FFS reckon she’ll be next to hit UK’s ‘big things’. With Rae’s genius voice, she combines powerful lyrics with sublime, simple piano melodies to create a unique musical style.…
Interview | Introducing…Ninette and the Goldfish
With beautiful EP, Words From the Deep Down, released earlier this year, we thought it was high time to take a peek into the goldfish bowl…. Hello, please introduce yourself and your music to the uninitiated. We’re Nina Thomas and…
Interview | Canal tours, Easter bunny heads and dancing girls – the weird and wonderful world of Skinny Lister
Skinny Lister are a quaint folk band with a bit of everything. Siblings, concertinas, a complementary dance troupe called the Skinny Sisters… they tick all of the folk boxes. Their music is charming and rousing and their gigs are rowdy.…
Interview | Introducing…Maz Totterdell
Maz Totterdell is like a ray of sunshine in your record collection. Rather than choosing the route of teenage angst, this precocious 15 year old reminds us that it wasn’t ALL rubbish being young, and her gentle reflections on the bumpy road…
Interview | Introducing…Paul Thomas Saunders
With recent EP Descartes Highlands, Paul Thomas Saunders has revealed a gift for transmuting melancholia into a kind of subdued euphoria. Named after an area on the nearside of the moon, the EP is a collection of sonic lunarscapes to…
Interview | The other-worldly influences of The Magnetic North
When a long-dead woman called Betty Corrigall comes to you and tells you to make an album about your shared home of Orkney it’s a difficult thing to ignore. When this happened to Erland Cooper he didn’t ignore it, but…
Interview | FFS talks to Bellowhead’s Pete Flood
Bellowhead are one of those bands you can’t help but instantly fall in love with. With their traditional folk music and exceptional musicianship they’ve become a treasure to many folk fans. About to set off on tour with other folk…
Interview | We’re going to need a bigger boat….Tom Williams talks to FFS
Tom Williams’ dial is clearly set to ‘overachieve’ at the moment. He and The Boat are currently on the promo trail for their second album, Teenage Blood, and getting revved up for their pledge-funded national tour. Supposedly they’re not gunning…