FFS’s actual favourite Laura Marling is taking a trip to Wiltshire next month to play Honeyfest at the Barge Inn along with Dry the River and the Magic Numbers. The day-long festival was launched after a small village community were…
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End of the Road line-up: Marling, Mogwai, Midlake, Mangan
End of the Road, FFS’s favourite festival, has added another slew of bands to its aleady brilliant line-up. Mogwai will be joining headliners Midlake, Beirut and Laura Marling. Also confirmed are The Leisure Society, Dry The River, Joan as a…
Caitlin Rose on tour next week, spawns mini-me
The brilliant Caitlin Rose is over in the UK next week for a string of tourdates kicking off with a sold out show at London’s Borderline. Tickets are still available for the rest of the dates in Oxford, Exeter, Glasgow,…
Sufjan Stevens announces UK tour
This is freaky, folkers. Breakfast this morning was accompanied by the sweet sounds of Sufjan’s Illinois and thoughts of how much I’d love to see him live, and lo and behold a string of UK dates are announced. The UK…
FFS Exclusive: Andrew Davie, Beth Jeans Houghton and Tom Williams & the Boat for Camden Crawl
FFS can exclusively reveal that Andrew Davie (formerly of Cherbourg), Beth Jeans Houghton and Tom Williams & the Boat will play this year’s Camden Crawl. Other folky acts lined up include Sarabeth Tucek – who is supporting the Leisure Society…
The Leisure Society: new album and tour dates
FFS favourites The Leisure Society have announced that their second album ‘Into The Murky Water’, will be released on Monday May 2nd 2011. The band’s first album ‘The Sleeper’ won FFS’s best album poll in 2009. Songwriter Nick Hemming has…
Alessi’s Ark’s new video and free MP3 download
Put two uber-talented 20-year-olds together and what do you get? Well in this case it’s a tricycle-filled music video in which every frame and note is a beaut. Artistic wonderwoman Anika Mottershaw and dream-folk darling Alessi Laurent-Marke got together to…
Listen to the Low Anthem’s new album in full
The new album from Bella Union wonders The Low Anthem is available to stream this week. Smart Flesh was produced by the band and mixed by Bright Eyes and Alessi’s Ark producer Mike Mogis. Jeff Prystowsky from the Low Anthem…
Mountain Goats on tour tour tour
Best band in the world, the Mountain Goats, have announced a UK tour after the release of All Eternals Deck, their first release on Merge Records. They’re so brilliant live it would be remiss of us not to very strongly…
tUnE-yArDs announces new album and track giveaway
Author of one of our favourite albums ever, Merrill Garbus’s tUnE-yArDs’s second album w ho k i l l is set to be released on 18th April. And in response to a bit of old-fashioned pirating Merrill said this: “The…