Rufus Wainwright’s seventh studio album, released a full fourteen years after his first, shows an artist who’s swapped addictions to crystal meth and chocolate milk for healthier appetites: fatherhood and a desire to make fully-fledged ‘danceable’ pop music, to name but…
Record Store Day | RSD 2012 easily the biggest yet
This FFS scribe is still trying to get back on a vaguely regular sleep patten following an all-nighter outside Piccadilly Records but already some of the figures are in for Record Store Day 2012 and it proved to be comfortably…
Live | Soap&Skin @ Scala, London
Anæmic-white and hidden in the black waves of her dress, Anja Plaschg condenses down to a voice. A voice uncomfortable and unsettling for all its deep and rounded beauty. A voice, and behind that voice a vortex for all the…
Album | Cornshed Sisters – Tell Tales
How do you like your harmonies? Rich and plentiful? Well this one could be for you. Despite a name which alludes to the deep south of America, the Cornshed Sisters are actually from the north east of England. Indeed, north-east…
Interview | James Yorkston Looks Back
TEN YEARS AFTER James Yorkston’s beautiful album Moving Up Country hit our ears it’s been reissued with a bonus disc of demos and Peel sessions. FFS caught up with James to talk about listening back to an album, what it…
Interview | Celebrating 10 years of How Does It Feel To Be Loved
How Does It Feel To Be Loved, a club night described by Laura Barton of the Guardian as “Absolutely the best night in the whole of the world!”, is ten years old this weekend. With a tag-line of ‘From the…