Jessica’s Brother is the eclectic project of songwriter Tom Charleston, former Ramshackle Union Band bass player Charlie Higgs and Wave Pictures drummer Jonny Helm. They mix elements of jangly indie, gothic country, and psych but while the styles change the…
Dave Tattersall has weird dreams. We know this because the Wave Pictures have a new album on the way, and apparently Bamboo Diner In The Rain is set “in the Bamboo Diner of my dreams, with rain beating on the…
Danny Green is the brains behind Laish an occasional blogger for FFS, he launched new London night ‘We Come Alive’ in 2014. I started We Come Alive, a new musical night at the end of last year. I had been…
Still got money to burn after reading part one of our shopping guide? Then step this way. We’ll help you spend it. PLEASE NOTE: The prices are the ones we’ve been given – but please don’t blame us if things…
There’s a scepticism bordering on nihilism about ‘Orange Juice’, a collaboration between Stanley Brinks – formerly of Herman Dune – and the Wave Pictures. Brinks comes over all Modern Life Is Rubbish as he laments life’s disappointments, including a 21st-century…
City Forgiveness, the fifth studio album from the Wave Pictures, is a rare thing: an album full of substance and ideas, but bound in by style. It’s a road trip album, forged from notes that lead singer David Tattersall took…
Vostok 5 is a collection of songs about man’s first uncertain explorations into space. Some of them are about men, both on the ground and in the rockets themselves; some who made it, some who never made it and some…
FFS favourite Darren Hayman has contributed songs and drawings to a London exhibition Vostok 5, on People and Animals in Space. Hefner frontman Hayman has teamed up with Duncan Barrett of Tigercats, Robert Rotifer, Sarah Lippett and Paul Raines from…
The Green Man promised magic and he didn’t disappoint. Once again the organisers pulled off the spectacular trick of attracting the friendliest festival crowd to the most laid-back festival there is, while enticing some of the weirdest and most wonderful…
Hefner frontman and creator of last year’s masterful folk opera Pram Town has posted photos of the Wave Pictures during a recording session at his house in December. According to Darren, the band were at Hayman Towers recording a song for…