Good afternoon, friends, Naturally owls know better than to get caught in the rain, so I am fluffed up by the fire with a hot buttered rum. Since you’re probably about to brave the outside with one of those horrific…
Brian’s Mixtape | Rain
Album | Tom Williams & The Boat – Teenage Blood
It’s been four years since I first saw Tom Williams & the Boat perform on a mini BBC Introducing tour of Kent – the moment I chose to probe the band using my rookie work experience reporter technique and an…
Album | Megan Reilly – The Well
We weren’t remotely familiar with Megan Reilly until first hearing ‘Sew The Theads Into Your Heart’ and falling for it pretty much straight away. That means we can’t do anything like tell you where this album might sit alongside the…
Interview | Smoke Fairies introduce new album Blood Speaks
As they prepare to release new album Blood Speaks next month, FFS spoke to Smoke Fairies Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies about the new album and the role of tea in the songwriting process. FFS: The new record sounds punchier,…
Album | Rufus Wainwright – Out of the Game
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…