Predicting the quality of a band’s live performance based upon the music they’ve selected to play in the interim time has become almost second nature to me. I know all those wise things about not judging a book by its…
Author: Angeline Liles
Live: Stornoway @ The Junction, Cambridge
Previous experience has taught me that the addition of anything resembling a string section to a live show can only ever be a very good thing. In fact, just a single violin can do the trick, and luckily for me,…
Live: Polly & The Billets Doux @ The Living Room, Cambridge
The Living Room is a brilliant little evening of music that occurs (usually) on the first Friday of each month in the basement of a bistro in the less glamorous end of Cambridge town. It’s probably the city’s best-kept musical…
Willy Mason supports Isobel Campbell and announces UK headline shows
Almost a year since his last appearance on our fair shores, Willy Mason will be returning to the UK in September for a brief spell to support Isobel Campbell on her European tour. A peppering of acoustic headline shows intersperse…
Live: Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit @ Electric Ballroom
It’s no secret that FFS has more than a little love for “the next poster boy of the nu-folk [vom – Ed] scene” (we can thank the Times for that one), and his marvellous new album Been Listening has only…
FFS interview: Johnny Flynn
It’s the day before he and his band, The Sussex Wit, are due to embark on a tour of England to promote his new album, Been Listening, and Johnny Flynn is sporting an inconveniently sore throat. Happily, he manages to…
Pete Roe reveals details of new EP
You may not realise it, but you’ve probably seen Pete Roe’s face more than once. He has been a regular feature of Laura Marling’s live band for quite some time, and last Autumn played the roles of both supporting act…
Single Review: Laura Marling – Rambling Man
Gone are the wispy, brittle songs of Alas I Cannot Swim. Twenty-year-old Marling’s second album, I Speak Because I Can, is simmering with a certain confidence in style that seems to have replaced the endearing tenderness of the debut. ‘Rambling…
Peggy Sue announce European tour
Following last month’s release of details about their imminent new album, Peggy Sue are embarking on a month-long tour of Europe in support of The Archie Bronson Outfit. Upon their return to the UK in May, they’ll be heading off…
Johnny Flynn reveals details of new album and tour
It’s been two long years since the accomplished debut A Larum was ardently welcomed to our ears, so it’s with joy that we receive news of Johnny Flynn’ second album. Entitled Been Listening and to be released on 7th June…