Everyone’s favourite tweed-clad fourpiece Mumford & Sons; have announced a headline tour at some pretty sizeable venues across the UK, and a limited edition EP. Tickets for the 6-date tour, which takes in Glasgow, Manchester, Brighton, Nottingham, Bristol and London,…
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Stage times for Sunday’s Bandstand Busking with Slow Club, Johnny Flynn and Broadcast 2000 revealed
Bandstand Busking have announced the stage times for the second of their two appearances at Richard Thompson’s Meltdown festival. The free gig takes place in the Clore Ballroom in the Royal Festival Hall this Sunday, with an incredibly FFS-friendly line-up…
Free Eels download, tour and album news
Mark Oliver Everett’s Eels are offering a free download from their 2nd album in a year, Tomorrow Morning, due for release on 23 August. The album is the third in the trilogy that began with Hombre Lobo and continued with…
Iron & Wine, Wilco and Modest Mouse confirm for Open House Festival
As if it wasn’t looking exciting enough already, Belfast’s Open House Festival has announced a dream team of additions to its line up: Modest Mouse, Wilco and Iron & Wine. They join the already brilliant line up which includes Field…
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan return with third album
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan, the pair that brought us the briliant album Ballad of Broken Seas in 2006 and the really quite good Sunday at Devil Dirt in 2008, return with a new album in 2010, titled Hawk. Isobel…
Laura Marling and Mumford & Sons announce special shows with Indian folk collective
Laura Marling and Mumford & Sons have announced two special shows with the Rajasthani folk collective that they worked with in Delhi when they toured in India last December. The first show will take place at London’s Roundhouse on 9th…
Bella Union announce Summer Evening @ Union Chapel
Bella Union have put together a little belter of an evening at the Union Chapel on 24th June featuring some of their finest signings from recent months. These will include long-term love of FFS Alessi’s Ark, Lone Wolf (who recently…
The Miserable Rich Tour and Album
This is, by necessity, a brief and information-packed news item, because The Miserable Rich are on tour right now and will stop being on 19th June. They are fantastically talented musicians with a proclivity for reviving old, neglected instruments whilst…
Free Bandstand Busking stage at Meltdown festival: Johnny Flynn, Slow Club, Broadcast 2000, Laura Hocking
The ever wonderful Bandstand Busking have announced they are to curate two free shows at Richard Thompson’s Meltdown festival this month. The first gig, which takes places this Sunday (13th June) from 1-7pm, features Sam Amidon and Laura Hocking –…
Caitlin Rose offers free download from debut album
Caitlin Rose is celebrating the upcoming release of her debut album by offering fans a frree download of ‘Sinful Wishing Well’. Caitlin has announced that ‘One Side Now’ will be released on August 9 through Names Records, but if you…