Twenty-five years ago Teenage Fanclub played this same Digbeth venue, days before the release of their breakthrough album Bandwagonesque. Granted, their fringes were longer and frames looser-limbed but close your eyes and not much has changed. Grunge, Britpop and lesser…
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…