Christmas In Hayworth was something of a souvenir Darren Hayman brought back from spending Christmas 2010 in the Yorkshire village of Hayworth – with four of the six tracks written and recorded there and others added later. Hayman’s Christmas EP…
Billie Marten has had quite the year. The 17-year-old released her debut album, broke into America, supported Carole King, and made her debut UK headline tour – which sold out. To give a little back, here’s her Christmas gift to…
The death of David Bowie in January, two days after his 69th birthday, got 2016 off to a start from which it never really recovered. To remember the great man, today we pick out a real Christmas oddity – his…
A wee trip down memory lane today to the second FFS Christmas album, released in 2011. Jam-packed full of treats it was, so much so we couldn’t pick a song for today and had to pluck a name out of…
The fine people of the Snowflakes Christmas Singles Club have been pumping out seasonal treats every year since 2013. Amongst this year’s batch is the explosion of festive joy which is the Haywains’ ‘Who Needs Summer?’ – because what fun…
We don’t need to tell anyone that 2016 has been a brutal year for so many reasons. Soul great Sharon Jones was taken from us too soon last month after a battle with cancer, but her spirit will live on…
What better for a Sunday morning than the gospel-infused sound of the Blind Boys of Alabama? Here they are from 2013 taking on ‘Christmas In Dixie’ for the Alabama tribute album High Cotton.
FFS favourites Patch & The Giant are, unfortunately, thieves. We’ve documented it all at length here. It’s why their upcoming debut album is called All That We Had, We Stole. Just straight up thieves. But just because they are relentless…
Last year the Felice Brothers put together a Christmas EP, Felice Navidad, to benefit the Food Banks of the Hudson Valley, which works in upstate New York to alleviate hunger. The release was digital only, but this year one of…
Who waits until 3pm to open their Advent Calendar? The extraordinarily lazy? Perhaps, but it’s not like we’ve only just woken up. No. This has taken real patience. We had to wait until now because we wanted to open up…