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Interview | Schmercury best album nominee Mechanical Bride
Our 3rd Schmercury-nominated interviewee Mechanical Bride’s album was one of those long-awaited debuts. We’d been following brains-behind-the-name Lauren Doss’s career since FFS was founded three years ago. Living With Ants was finally released in June this year, after a long…
Best album poll: It’s the Schmercuries 2011
On the eve of the Mercury poll, FFS have put together a list of our 12 favourite folk-tinged albums of the past year for our very own Schmercury prize. We’re going to do things a little differently this year, and…
FFS interview | Mechanical Bride
FFS met Lauren Doss, the creative force behind Mechanical Bride in the Transgressive Records offices in Islington. Her first album Colour of Ants was released on Monday. FFS: Your album is finally being released after a really long wait, how…
Album | Mechanical Bride – Living With Ants
The once-rarefied (some would say shunned) musical zone of the singer-songwriter has become rather crowded in recent years, a space for any old chap with a guitar and a vintage waistcoat and, as with any burgeoning cultural phenomenon, the more…
Listen online: Colour of Ants by Mechanical Bride + free download
The long-awaited debut album by Brighton based Lauren Doss’s band Mechanical Bride, Colour of Fire is being released by Transgressive Records on Monday. You can stream the whole thing on This is Fake DIY now. Lauren’s also giving away the…
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…
WIN: Tickets to Mechanical Bride’s London show on 19th April
Mechanical Bride has just announced the release of her debut album through Transgressive records on 6th June. Her upcoming single Colour of Fire is currently available for free download from the Mechanical Bride website. The brains behind Mechanical Bride, Lauren…
News: Mechanical Bride announces debut album + free download
Over at FFS HQ we’ve been looking forward to what we’re about to tell you for SO long that no amount of ‘long-awaited’s and ‘much-anticipated’s will cover it. The brilliant Mechanical Bride has finally announced her first album, Living With…
Brian’s Mixtape #31: All at Sea
This week Brian’s been completely and utterly unaffected by the volcanic ash cloud. He’s not even been subject to a light dusting, the lucky bird. He has, however, been following the news with avid interest and has concluded that all…