Emily Staveley-Taylor, like all the best people (this writer included), went to university in Manchester. And while she was there she worked in a bar just down the road from her student house in Whalley Range. It might have been…
Zoe Konez is a singer/songwriter who combines lyrical depth with extremely accomplished guitar playing. We described her as “ridiculously talented” after seeing her play at The Great Escape, and she’s been featured on 6Music several times. So, naturally, we were…
Empowerment is the theme of Yvonne McDonnell’s upcoming EP Not Her Own, something which is certainly evident on opening track ‘I’m Not This Layer of Skin’ – a song inspired by Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem ‘The Lady of Shalott’. McDonnell’s…
FFS is delighted to bring you the premiere to Watching for Foxes’ new single ‘Undone Bird’. With an album of the same name releasing just around the corner on June 10, the Grand Rapids-based quintet’s frontman, Joey Frendo, has this…
Pockinton (about 13 miles east of York) is the host for Platform Festival, running over 4 days from the 12th to 16th July. Held indoors in an old railway station, the festival features a number of FFS favourites, opening with…
It’s not often we have a video premiere for a band that is no longer together, but we’re not letting precedent get in the way of this. The Lost Left are, no, were Ben Pritchard (vocals, guitar), Bobby Crawford (drums)…
As the daughter of a Japanese poet and Free/Bad Company/Queen vocalist Paul Rodgers, it’s no surprise that music pours out of Jasmine Rodgers. She spent the early 2000s performing and recording with Boa after joining her brother’s band, and has…
In case you hadn’t gathered, Saturday is Record Store Day. The A-J section of our pick of the 500+ special releases is here, and now for the rest of the alphabet. All those caveats about the prices being a guide…
Have you done your homework ahead of Record Store Day? With more than 500 releases on their way this Saturday there is a mass of stuff to get your teeth into, but if you’re running out of time before heading…
Danny Green’s songwriter project, Laish, are performing a rare seven-piece band launch show at London’s excellent Sebright Arms on 21st April to celebrate the release of an EP we described as “13 minutes of perfection“. Support comes from the honey-voiced…