The chaps from Communion in Manchester have recently announced a very special Christmas gig indeed. On the 6th December, hosted at Manchester’s Ruby Lounge, Communion have brought together some of their own bands to play what is to be a…
The highly acclaimed post-folk troupe Klak Tik have just announced the release of a brand new single ‘Reborn’ taken from their forthcoming album ‘The Servents’ (due for release in Spring 2013). Recorded in a studio deep underground beneath the Parys…
The Staves appeared quietly confident as they took to the stage on the second night of their headline tour, and who can blame them after touring with Bon Iver and that much-talked-about show at Wembley Arena last week. The band,…
This week our writers get their heads around the intriguing prospect of Belgian four-piece BRNS (pronounced ‘brains’), who veer between all kinds of different styles. Could they be Belgium’s answer to Alt-J? Here’s what FFS has to say…. Rosy Ross: I…
If you’re still kicking yourself for missing out on that Johnny Flynn vinyl on this year’s Record Store Day, there is good news. A Bag Of Hammers, Flynn’s soundtrack to the Brian Crano’s 2011 film of the same name, is…
Emmett Kelly is, to all intents and purposes, the only permanent gang member and since a debut album under that name in 2006 has put out only an impossible to find follow-up, a solitary EP and a collaboration with Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy. The latter, the occasionally fantastic Wondershow of the World, was certainly not time wasted, but The Corner Man is too deeply felt and too thoroughly delivered to be the work of a regular sidekick.