Okay, if you’re in a good mood, and you don’t want it spoilt, back away now. This one is not for you, at least not today. California may be a land of sunshine, but not much of it seems to…
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FFS New Bands Panel – Kashmere Hakim
Dutch singer-songwriter Kashmere Hakim started the summer by releasing his debut EP, The Hillsinger, and is following it up with a handful of festival appearances around Europe. The panel took a listen to see what all the fuss is about.…
FFS New Bands Panel – Glaciers
Leeds’ Nicolas Burrows is working under the name Glaciers, but would the panel give him a warm embrace or the cold shoulder? Let’s find out… Jono Ganz: “Glaciers”. The word brings bands such as Sigur Rós or God is an…
FFS New Bands Panel – Tiny Birds
Tiny Birds get their name from a study in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology that found that while bigger birds are louder, it is the smaller birds who sing the more complex songs. We’re not sure what they were doing…
FFS New Bands Panel: Common Tongues
To many people, country music has a bad name. Folks don’t like to admit to liking it most of the time. But it has a strong influence in the folk revival that has cheered us all in recent times, so…
FFS New Bands Panel: Little Man Lost
Little Man Lost is, he claims, waiting to meet a penguin so he can form a band. In the meantime, he records in his bedroom in Erfurt, Germany, using all manner of fancy toys to produce a sound which is…
FFS New Bands Panel: Just Handshakes (We’re British)
Right off the bat, we can say about this Leeds four-piece that they have the best name of any act the New Bands Panel has yet listened to. But do they have the tunes to match? The panel dives in……
FFS New Bands Panel: Matthew Kilford
Singer/songwriter Matthew Kilford has been creating a strong buzz in his native Oxfordshire for some time now, and the word is spreading, not least thanks to gigs with the likes of Andy Yorke, Dawn Kinnard, Seth Lakeman and also The…
Joni Mitchell memories from a folkskeptic fan
Folkskeptic Alice Sage gives her heartfelt reasons why Mitchell’s music rules ok. When I was fourteen I bought a copy of Song To A Seagull for my mum’s birthday. But by then she had lost her singing voice to a…
Interview | The Miserable Rich return with the deeply personal ‘Glue’
“They said I should stick to you like glue, after what the two of us went through” The Miserable Rich’s new release, ‘Glue’, is a song unlike anything James de Malplaquet had ever written before. Deeply personal, emotionally raw, it…