Today is the 500th song of the day, which is definitely a thing – but it’s also our live editor Helen’s birthday, which is definitely a bigger a thing. So while we toyed with picking ‘I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)’…
A film of God Help The Girl, starring Sucker Punch actor Emily Browning and Hannah Murray (Skins and Game of Thrones), is due out next year. The project is the brainchild of Belle & Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch, who launched…
Photo © Will Clayton Dear readers, It has come the day when our wonderful cyber-friend For Folk’s Sake, the music critique glue which brings us all closer together, celebrates its fifth birthday. Obviously such frivolous celebrations are unlikely to move…
Two of your humble FFS servants are off to End of the Road festival in Dorset today and we’re barely able to contain ourselves. The festival never misses a beat with its line-ups and we’ve been faithful attendees since we…
Today is Stuart Murdoch’s birthday, and although Wikipedia is more or less adamant that he’s turning 45, we all know that he’s really nineteen, scribbling in exercise books and pining away as he gazes out the window of a Glasgow…
Last weekend I went out in London’s trendy Dalston with our Live Editor, Helen. She takes me out every year or two to remind me that I don’t like it much in fancy pubs with copies of Wired magazine for…
When sister site of the Yellow Bird Project, analog.am approached us and asked us if we’d like to pick our favourite albums for an FFS-themed vinyl shelf, it was a foregone conclusion. There is nothing Team FFS likes more than…
Stevie Jackson has had an illustrious career. Not content with an enormously successful 16 years with genre-defining band Belle and Sebastian, he’s played with the Bill Wells Trio, The Store Keys and regularly lends his guitar skills to iconic…
Dear readers, You may have suspected that I would jump on the sporting bandwagon and create a playlist around the greatest of all competition anthems, Vangelis’ Chariots of Fire because of the ‘Games’ that people are getting all worked up…
As massive Belle and Sebastian fans (no surprises there), FFS were pretty keen to hear this album from their adorable guitarist Stevie Jackson. He is adorable in a sort of scatty-uncle-who-tells-the-best-stories-in-awkward-family-situations kind of way, and the inoffensive charm in his…