Sam Brookes, troubador and organiser of the Unplugged Sessions at the Mayfair Windmill, has taken the show on the road over the past week. With a cracking line up featuring Pete Roe, Emily & the Woods, Hot Feet, John Parker…
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…
Album | The Unthanks – Diversions Vol. 1: The Songs of Robert Wyatt and Anthony & The Johnsons
As you might expect from a group as interesting as The Unthanks, Diversions is not a straight covers album. Rather it is a re-imagining, a project in its own right, comparable to many other ‘versions’ projects that have emerged from…
Chris Addison on The Leisure Society
Thursday night saw The Leisure Society perform with The Heritage Orchestra at the Barbican in London. It was as triumphant a show as you might expect. Hearing the songs we know and love so well treated with the reverence they…
News | Stealing Sheep Debut EP: Out Now + Tour Dates.
Having recorded their first single “I am the Rain” at Abbey Road studios earlier this year, followed by an invite to play a live session at BBC’s Maida Vale; Stealing Sheep have released an 8-track EP (or mini LP perhaps) via Heavenly…
Album | Dan Mangan – Oh Fortune
“Please be merry, when I am buried/In the ground”. Despite recently playing for Kate n’ Wills in his native Canada, FFS favourite Dan Mangan seems a bit glum right now. Moving on from the flimsier topics (robot love and that)…