FFS often find ourselves moaning about the noise levels at lovely folk gigs where you want to be able to hear nothing but the singer’s voice or a pin dropping, but find yourself shushing those chatting behind you in a…
Watching Johnny Flynn live is a lot like spending the afternoon with your grandma. Take, for example, his confusion when playing a brand new song to ‘more than three people’ for the first time. Upon beginning, a man at the…
Mumford and Sons launched their debut album Sigh No More in a barn in the home counties. Of COURSE they did. The highlight of the evening was this performance of Dolly Parton’s Jolene, featuring Marcus Mumford’s then girlfriend Laura Marling.
Rebecca Taylor, one half of Slow Club, tweeted this morning to indicate in really rather strong terms that the band will be playing Notting Hill Arts Club this evening. https://twitter.com/SLOWCLUBREBECCA/status/359598259330744320 Apparently billed as ‘Charles & Di’, the pair look likely…
Followers of the New Bands Panel will be familiar with Cornwall-based experimentalist Minko and her Songs Series. Her latest EP, Songs 5-8 (Creature), is out now and takes its name from this track. A little moodier and broodier than some…
Landshapes (formerly Lulu and the Lampshades) are a foursome most well-known for playing on cups in their kitchen. They are raucously fun to see live, playing a dizzying array of instruments (especially percussive ones), and Rambutan is rhythmically and musically…