With a name as playful as David Harbottle & The Friendly Cats, one of the strongest elements I initially expected from their record was quite simply, fun. Happily, the seven-piece outfit’s third EP, Dawn Breaks, doesn’t disappoint in that sense…
We’re so grateful to Worry Dolls for writing and recording ‘Coming Home’ for this year’s charity compilation album For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas. Now our favourite flame-haired duo have gone one better with this joyful music video, featuring Patch & the…
Two of the most gorgeously languorous voices combine to make this utterly dreamy version of Baby It’s Cold Outside. The song was part of compilation record Christmas Rules, which was released last year and also featured Andrew Bird, The Civil Wars…
The stage at Hoxton Bar and Grill is tantalisingly populated with a flat screen, projector and mammoth percussion rig long before Cameron Mesirow, aka Glasser, takes to the stage twenty-five minutes late. Apparently oblivious to such earthly mundanities as ‘time’,…
There’s nothing Richard Hawley can’t do. Because if you can perform ‘Silent Night’ this brilliantly inside the Devil’s Arse*, you can do anything. *Note: This is, in fact, a cave just south of Hawley’s home town of the Sheffield, and…
Laura Marling so beautifully articulates the crispness of Britain’s cold weather in this, her most wintry of songs. This song was released in 2009, but La Marling started playing it the Christmas before. Including at the Communion Christmas Party, a…