Our favourite chap Johnny Flynn has announces a string of rare solo dates across the UK. Taking a break from being a big-shot stage actor, Johnny will be hitting London, Manchester, Glasgow and Bristol on a mini-tour. Tickets go on…
#72 Junip – Your Life Your Call
Hot from the newly-released, eponymous record, ‘Suddenly’ is Junip at their best – futuristic, Kraftwerky synths layered with José González’s delicate guitar picking and a Casio coconut beat. What other band could mix those sounds with such great results? None, that’s…
News | Magnetic North release ‘Symphony’ film
The Magnetic North are re-releasing their debut album with an accompanying film, ‘Hunting For Remoteness’. Orkney: Symphony of the Magnetic North, a collaboration between Erland Cooper from Erland & The Carnival, Hannah Peel and Simon Tong (The Verve, Gorillaz), was first released…
#71 Joe Innes & The Cavalcade – Fables
Any FFS review, mention or even hint of Joe Innes & the Cavalcade will need to come with something of a disclaimer. You see, our editor, Lynn Roberts, is IN THE BAND. So we’re not going to editorialise, we’d just…
Interview | Alessi comes full circle – FFS favourite, Alessi’s Ark, on new album The Still Life
Here at FFS we’ve been super fans of Alessi’s Ark – aka Alessi Laurent-Marke – since the very beginning. We should probably have a badge or something. We first caught wind of Alessi when she was a whip of a…
#70 The Melodic – One Day/Reckoning Song
Melodica, Melody and Me have undergone a refit and re- emerged simply as The Melodic. Their first offering in the new syllable-efficient guise shows that while the name has changed, the joy of their simple sound has not. They’ve taken…