Do you like being seduced? Of course you do. Well despite having an extraneously punctuated name that recalls some of the most repellent characters in Nathan Barley (Jonatton Yeah? – yeah?), the Ala.ni of You & I is seduction personified.…
Emily Staveley-Taylor, like all the best people (this writer included), went to university in Manchester. And while she was there she worked in a bar just down the road from her student house in Whalley Range. It might have been…
Wooden Arms released their new single ‘Burial’ on Friday. Inspired bu Edgar Allen Poe, the track flips between sombre lullabies and trip-hop basslines on its way to a climax of noise. It’s quite a thing. As is this rather dark…
How fitting to get acquainted with Darren Hayman’s new multimedia documentary project and album ‘Thankful Villages Volume 1’ on a day set aside in the USA as a memorial to soldiers.The project’s central theme of a musical, visual and narrative…
If you haven’t been to the Harrison in London Kings Cross before, it’s one of the warmest, most intimate venues in London, as well as being one of the more versatile. The perfect setting for unplugged nights, whether musical, spoken…
Pockinton (about 13 miles east of York) is the host for Platform Festival, running over 4 days from the 12th to 16th July. Held indoors in an old railway station, the festival features a number of FFS favourites, opening with…
I can’t remember who first put me on to Sarah MacDougall (I know it was quite a while after the release of her wonderful second album The Greatest Ones Alive about five years ago), but I owe them thanks, especially…
I have been listening to Jim James’ take on the Grateful Dead’s “Candyman” for the last three weeks straight. I can’t get over his version of this song. To be honest, I can’t get over this album. It’s important to…
Frankie Cosmos deserve so more than a Monday evening London audience. Which is not to say that the crowd isn’t fully on board with Greta Kline’s awesome indie-pop. We are. We sway and we nod. We grin and clap and whoop…
I think you could be forgiven if you haven’t heard of Frances. She first hit my radar when she made the longlist of the BBC’s “Sound of 2016” in December, and despite ultimately not featuring in the top five, has…