Och that’s nice. The lovely Conor O’Brien from Villagers has won an Ivor Novello Award today for “Best Song Musically and Lyrically” for ‘Becoming A Jackal’, the title track of his debut album. He was up against Foals and Everything Everything…
Festival Preview: Truck
The 14th Truck Festival (22nd-24th July) will, unfortunately for FFS, be our first. We had a rough idea that something good was going on in a field in Oxford all these years, but we’ve only just been informed of the…
Interview: Ron Sexsmith rises again
When Ron Sexsmith’s 11th album Long Player Late Bloomer was released earlier this year, FFS declared it to be the Canadian singer-songwriter’s “most exuberant album to date”. We’re sticking with that assessment, but the man himself told us it came…
EP: Daughter – His Young Heart
Solo Londoner Elena Tonra, known musically as Daughter, quickly gained an online following after the release of a four track demo EP earlier this year. That collection, almost entirely recorded with just a guitar and Tonra’ s delicate vocals, revealed…
Emmy the Great’s album showcase – Virtue
Emmy the Great launched her second album Virtue with an album showcase at the Wheelbarrow in Camden tonight. Accompanied by a six-piece band she played the album in full and in order, before treating the audience to an encore of…
Aspel Orchid
Punk-styled performance poet and dulcimer-playing songstress are just a few ways of describing Aspel Orchid – with a self-made debut album Voltarine Dreams and EP From Beneath The Snow out now, the panel stepped in to take a look… Scott…