It’s ompetition time, music fans! The nice folk at Greenbelt festival have offered us a pair of tickets to give away to next weekend’s festivities. The line up includes music from The Leisure Society, Roddy Woomble, the Proclaimers, Bellowhead and…
Album | Cate Le Bon – CYRK II
While the national emblem of Wales might be the fierce red dragon, Cate Le Bon’s whimsical undercurrent of 70s laidback folk and Nico-embossed vocals paints a picture that counteracts this association. It was only April this year that Welsh lovely…
Album | Stealing Sheep – Into the Diamond Sun
Liverpudlian girl-trio Stealing Sheep are effortlessly fresh-faced, embracing psychedelic swoops and loops; they create a homespun hippyish vibe in a way that’s honest and fun rather than affectedly occult (I can see them dressing up in kaftans, but not faffing…
Festivals | Friday at the Cambridge Folk Festival
The Cambridge Folk Festival is officially the most chilled out festival we’ve ever been to, and certainly the only one where the entire crowd at the main stage sit down in the chairs they’ve brought themselves. With easy access, friendly…
News | Mumford & Sons release a new single
FFS’s good ol’ favourites, Mumford & Sons, have announced a new single ‘I Will Wait’, to be released on the 24th September 2012. Even more exciting, it is the first single taken from their forthcoming, hotly-anticipated album ‘Babel’. What’s more,…
Album | Adrian McNally – Harbour of Songs
Metal and rock are, of course, both well-established as musical genres. Wood is less so, but the Unthanks’ Adrian McNally is out to change that. As part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, a boat constructed from wood donated by…