Peggy Sue return from their American odyssey this week and get stuck right in to a week of live dates across England, as well as releasing new single ‘Yo Mama’ on limited edition 7” vinyl on 9th November. They’re likely to sell swiftly, so keep your eyes peeled.
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Festival Review: Swn Festival, Cardiff
Every October Huw Stephens puts on a wondrous, glorious, often slightly damp and cold festival in the bars, music halls and converted churches of Cardiff town, and this year FFS’s own Helen True spent three music-rich days in the Welsh capital. Read about her experiences here.
Alessi’s gone Christmas Crackers!
Do you know what’s lovely? Christmas. And another thing? Alessi’s Ark. What if these two things were combined, for one night only, with a sprinkling of Treetop Flyers and a bowl full of Jake Bellows on the side? You’d cry for joy? Well then, dear reader, prepare to weep, for that is what you can have on 10th December.
Cherbourg’s Andrew Davie to play solo show
Cherbourg’s Andrew Davie is to play a solo show in Hoxton on 16th November in the first of four days of gigs curated by Levi’s One to Watch. Hoxton Bar and Kitchen will be taken over from Monday 16th Novemeber to Thursday 19th, when a parallel gig will take place at Cargo.
Album: Boo Hewerdine – God Bless the Pretty Things
Firmly grounded in folk and country, with harmonies that would be perfectly at home on a porch swing in the deep south, Boo Hewerdine’s latest album is a sweet stroll through life, love and the like. That said, this dude doesn’t sit comfortably in a musical box. He’s a wanderer when it comes to musical styles, and that makes for an album of kaleidoscopic shade and tone.
Emmy the Great to play at Young Husband EP launch tonight
Young Husband’s new EP, Idiot Son, launches on 28th September and the fellah will be celebrating with a free Pure Groove Instore this evening (Friday 25th Sept) from 7:30. Longstanding musical chum Emmy the Great will also appear as part of their covers band, the High Men.
Single: Mumford and Sons – Little Lion Man
Fans of Mumford and Sons have waited a painfully long time for their debut album, Sigh No More, which is finally due for release on 5th October. One week before, the waistcoat-sporting gents will release the single “Little Lion Man”. We can all breathe a collective sigh of musical relief.
Single: Fanfarlo – The Walls are Coming Down
Fanfarlo’s newest single, from the magnificent album Reservoir, might have something rather pertinent to say to our suited and booted friends in the city:
“They swallowed it whole, they went for the gold, for the gold / We fall for the same lies we all have the same shoes to fit / The preachers and books of your empire will fight here alone / Some day the will be forgotten and die one by one”
The Leisure Society announce single and tour
Soaring wonder-boats of folksome sounds The Leisure Society have announced the release of their new single ‘Save It For Someone Who Cares’ on the 28th of September. This track, inspired by an unsatisfactory experience in the Union Chapel, is a melodic little blinder, and will feature in set lists on the band’s forthcoming tour.
Sons of Noel and Adrian and Peggy Sue play free gig this Sunday
This Sunday’s free Bandstand Busk will be a particularly special one, so far as FFS are concerned, featuring as it will two of our very favourite bands. Troubador and -esses Peggy Sue, and bigger-than-a-football team Sons of Noel and Adrian will be appearing at Northampton Square Bandstand from 3pm on Sunday, 6th September.