Live albums can go ether way. Sometimes they seem like nothing more than a sonic souvenir of the band’s last tour for their existing fan base. But at their best, they make you stop listening to the studio albums. After…
Mark Oliver Everett, the EELS front man, has joined a prestigious list that includes Winston Churchill, Princess Diana, Nelson Mandela and musicians like Bob Geldof, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti after he was honoured with one of the most long…
EELS have just released a second single from their upcoming album ‘The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett’. The new single is entitled ‘Mistakes of My Youth’ and is available to listen to on the band’s Soundcloud page. The full…
‘Mistakes of my Youth’ is a retrospective of the self-defeating choices and actions of Mark Oliver Everett, one of the best people ever in the history of people who can both play guitar and sing songs. With misty, laid-back guitars…
We’ve gone rogue today with a double A-side advent calendar treat. Mark Oliver Everett of EELS has written two of our favourite modern Christmas tunes. Christmas from the point of view of our canine companions gets explored in’Christmas is Going…
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 the birthday of one of the most melancholy, beautifully-spirited men in the history of the world to date. Singing Eels frontman Mark Oliver Everett a merry ditty to celebrate the occasion would be profoundly inappropriate, so instead we’ll…
Mark Oliver Everett is, without doubt, the most consistently bipolar songwriter of our times. Shuttling between the rhapsodies of Daisies of the Galaxy and the chill misery of Electro Shock Blues, the scuzzy rage of Souljacker and the dejected tones of…
More than 15 years after they first burst on to the scene with ‘Novocaine For The Soul’, Eels show no sign of sputtering out. Mark ‘E’ Everett has announced the band’s 10th studio album ‘Wonderful, Glorious’ will be released on…
The ol’ playlisting ground to a resounding halt when Brian got himself into what can only be described as “a MASSIVE HUFF” over Spotify’s user-unfriendly changes. Huffing is terribly unattractive behaviour, (especially for one who considers himself to be wise),…