Session promoters Bandstand Busking have announced that they’re once again putting on a stage at Ray Davies’ Meltdown Festival at the Southbank Centre in London. The Guillemots will be headlining this year’s stage with more acts to be announced. Last…
Album: Dodos – No Color
Dodos are one of those bands who dangle in musical purgatory, regarded highly enough to have fans but not enough to have fanfare. This is a real shame because the quality of songs on their debut release Visitor and sophomore…
Glass Ankle
Japanese-influenced trio Glass Ankle are named after band mastermind Greg Jackson’s football injuries. Their debut EP If You’ve Been There is available now, as is new single Kyo Wa Ii Hi – which means ‘Today is a good day’ and…
Album: Rubik – Solar
We’ll admit we don’t follow the Finnish music scene that closely, but were any of us to do so, we’d find Rubik somewhere near the top of the pile. Solar, released here in the UK only now, has already been…
Live: The Woods in Spring @ Komedia, Brighton
As we arrived at Komedia and went upstairs to their biggest room for the first of a series of four events running throughout the year, it became clear that The Woods was not your ordinary gig. Through a magical door…
Live: Alessi’s Ark @ The Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
This is far from the first time FFS has seen Alessi Laurent-Marke perform live, but it might as well be. The shy girl whose last two gigs in Leeds were the lowest of low-key affairs in the corner of a…