by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on #484 Jacko Hooper – Egg Shells
Brighton-based artist Jacko Hooper releases his For You EP this very day. His Tom McRae-esque voice is front and centre of the four-track EP, as you will gather from the lead single ‘Egg Shells’. For You is the first official…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on #481 The Barr Brothers – Even The Darkness Has Arms
To this song goes the honour. ‘Even The Darkness Has Arms’ is the first song every to be our Song of the Day TWICE. But when we featured it last September, we took a live version from a Seattle radio…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on #475 Willy Mason & Peggy Sue – Longest Day of the Year Blues
It’s the longest day of the year! And what better way to spend it than seeing how many times you can fit in repeat plays of this special version of ‘Longest Day of the Year Blues’. The track originally appeared…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Album | The Secret Sisters – Put Your Needle Down
Three years ago, the Secret Sisters arrived with their thoroughly charming self-titled debut. Putting their blood harmonies to devastating effect, they whistled through an array of country standards while offering only two of their own compositions. The fact that one…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on #456 Suntrapp – Silhouettes
If you list your key influences as Neil Young and the Beach Boys, you’re pretty much conspiring to target us here at FFS (Or at least most of us). So it’s no surprise that we keep coming back to tracks…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on #454 Pocket Satellite – This Town
‘This Town’ is the opening track from 8-bit Me, the new EP from five-piece Pocket Satellite, who divide their time between London and Sheffield. While the song is plenty of fun, they’ve also devised a belting game to play while…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on #453 Anna McIvor – Augusta
Augusta EP by Anna McIvor Anna McIvor originally hails from Derry in Northern Ireland but has formed many of her musical ideas while living and performing in London and Paris. It was in the latter that she wrote ‘Augusta’, the…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on #451 Tacks, The Boy Disaster – Treasure Hunters
Tacks, The Boy Disaster hail from Austin, Texas, where they have finally finished work on their debut album, Twelve Lion Paws. We say finally – consider that their Oh Beatrice EP came out in 2006, a mere eight years ago…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Pictures | Mark Eitzel @ De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill
Mark Eitzel’s European tour took him to the special setting of Bexhill’s De La Warr Pavilion on Sunday night for a show put on in conjunction with our friends at Music’s Not Dead. With the sun going down over a…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on #449 Lotte Mullan – I Hope It Breaks Your Heart
‘I Hope It Breaks Your Heart’ is not simply the name of the lead single from Lotte Mullan’s Claw Marks EP, it seems to be her mission statement. A slightly abrasive tactic for a new artist in trying to win…