Listening to Have One on Me for the umpteenth time, I still find myself irrationally and spontaneously bursting into tears at the gentle phrasing and subtle moments. There is no biological reason why my hormones should be so out of…
Brian’s Mixtape #26: Down In One
I expect you’re wondering what Brian’s excuse is this time? The silly old owl asked for your suggestions for drinking songs on his twitter @LordBrianWilson on Monday, then duly spent the day glugging acorn wine while listening to them. It…
Blog: recommending Maria Byrne
Imagine FFS’s delight when we received this beautiful hand-stitched CD cover in the post. Causing FFS’s other half to comment rather cynically “She’s got you figured out”. Well perhaps she has, but that doesn’t alter the fact that the EP…
Save 6 Music: A call for designers
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to wear our support proudly emblazoned across our collective chest, or pinned proudly to our lapels?
Thusly we’re asking you to submit designs for “Save 6 Music” t-shirts and badges.
Single: Wild Beasts – We Still Got The Taste Dancin’ On Our Tongues
Kendal quartet Wild Beasts’ third single from their much-lauded second album, Two Dancers, ‘We Still Got The Taste…’ is a giddy tale of youthful debauchery and lustful adventures, characteristically told by frontman Hayden Thorpe’s unique countertenor vocals and accompanied by…
FFS interview: The Living Sisters
Becky Stark: “We wanted to make music everyone can listen to. These are the songs you’re brought up with, you know? The songs that everyone knows, The Beatles, Ella… and they become everybody’s music. It’s kind of like everyone owns them. Like The Beatles songs, or Amazing Grace… My mom used to do these teachings, on a Sunday afternoon. The Church of Popular Culture. We’d listen to the charts, and the current music and we’d learn them, and dance to them, but we’d learn from them too. Karma Chameleon. When that came out, we learnt about karma, and materialism, from Material Girl.”