It is a truth universally acknowledged that a great band in possession of incredible songs must be in want of a string section. Emmy the Great is just such an act, and FFS is delighted to report that she +…
Category: Gigs
Live | Allo Darlin’ @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
‘I feel like dancing on my own to a record I do not know’ declares Elizabeth Morris as she sings ‘The Polaroid Song’. And while this song from their wonderful debut is an exception, that is largely what we’re here…
Live | Ben Howard @ Shepherd’s Bush Empire.
“The phenomenon that is Ben Howard” is a pretty common headline we’ve been hearing and seeing over the last few months, and with that in mind I’m rather unsure of where to start. I luckily happened upon a ticket to…
Live | King Creosote & Jon Hopkins @ Shepherds Bush Empire
There are a lot of different reasons for going to see some lovely music. You might want to see a band live because they’re perky enough that you can sing along without being ashamed. You might go in the hope…
Live | Michael Kiwanuka @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
There is a very real sense of expectation as queues snake away from the front of the Brudenell Social Club. Expectation not only that inside will be considerably warmer than the freezing winter temperatures of the car park, but that…
News | Butcher Boy play Cecil Sharp House + Free MP3
FFS’s have whole-heartedly resolved to help you see more magnificent music in 2012, and what better time to start than the middle of January? This Saturday, the beautiful Cecil Sharp House will play host to two acts we rate very…
Live | Ani DiFranco @ Brighton Concorde 2
Ani DiFranco has been through enough re-inventions and reincarnations over the last two decades to give David Bowie a run for his money.From her debut as a wide-eyed, shaven-headed 20-year-old, through the tortured, angsty mid-90s and into a more mellow…
Live | Hannah Peel @ Holy Trinity Church, Leeds
With mulled wines in hand, the people of Leeds have packed into the pews of the Holy Trinity Church to hear one of their own deliver the annual Christmas service from the local Gaslight Club. Well, nearly. Hannah introduces herself…
Live | Laura Marling @ McKittrick Hotel: NYC.
With the space on stage no bigger than the size of your average dining table, surrounded by no less than nine (!) Christmas trees taking up what little room there was; one lonely microphone awaited the arrival of what had brought…
Live | Josh T. Pearson @ The Barbican + a free Christmas download
Josh T. Pearson’s Last of the Country Gentlemen was released this year to widespread acclaim, with this very website describing it as a ‘sparse, delicate and unrelenting trawl through the darker recesses of the soul’. It has found itself in…