London-based singer-songwriter Tom Hyatt has been playing the local music scene for a while. Long enough, in fact, that he’s seen it as the living, breathing community that it is. Like a coral reef, or a fallen tree in the…
For the past six months Joe Innes has been parading around Twitter with an increasingly bombastic persona. He boasts of ‘HUGE’ gigs and lambasts the ‘FAKE NEWS MEDIA’. He even has a hat. It reads, in bold type: ‘MAKE JOE…
You might know we’re pretty fond of Joe Innes and his Cavalcade here at FFS. What we’re chuffed about, if not remotely surprised, is how fond everyone else is becoming. As he prepares to his release his new album Foreign…
A few weeks ago we invited Joe Innes round to record, what has turned out to be, a very topical session. Although not even a London estate agent would describe our studio as spacious, we just about managed to squeeze…
This week on tour, lots of great things happened. In fact, the whole thing has improved by about 100%… First, I was joined by more members of our band. Lynn Roberts showed up to sing some harmonies, and Amy Smith…
Entry number three in Joe’s tour diary and we find him frightening children (oh, wait, were they howling with laughter instead?), hanging out with the Beatles in light form (see above), and scraping car fenders. Read on… We arrived in…
Yesterday, we caught the ferry from Dover to Dunkirk. Because we’re total squares, and I was worried about hitting any sort of traffic, we arrived at the port a good 3.5 hours early – which meant we caught the earlier…
Due to an error or something, I found out in December that I had 17.5 days of holiday left to take from work before the end of April. In January, I was offered a three-week tour of Germany in March.…
What do you do if you have, as Joe Innes puts it, “written a metric eff tonne of songs” that need turning into an album? You launch a crowd-funding campaign to get it off the ground. That’s exactly what Joe…
In case anyone hasn’t noticed, Christmas is on its way. If you’ve not started yet, you might want to give some passing thought to your Christmas shopping before you realise its Christmas Eve and the only place still open is…