“There’s always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If ‘Pi’ didn’t work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don’t think I would have gotten another shot at it. If ‘Requiem for…
Album | Slow Down, Molasses – Walk Into The Sea
Very occasionally Windows Media Player can be quite an astute critic. Take for instance its acute appraisal of Slow Down, Molasses’s Walk into the Sea: “Unknown Genre”. It’s right. The band’s music seems to me to refuse to take shape,…
Live | The Unthanks with the Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band @ Leeds Town Hall
We’re stepping out of our comfort zone here, all of us. FFS is not used to attending gigs – no, wait, this is definitely a ‘concert’ – in venues like the magnificent 19th century Leeds Town Hall, and while the…
Album | Lanterns on the Lake – Gracious Tide, Take Me Home
In my previous job, I worked as a presenter for new music station Amazing Radio. One of the first songs I had the opportunity to play on my folk-themed show was the wonderful track Giants, by North East ‘digital orchestra’…
Interview | Schmercury best album nominees Dark Dark Dark
Marshall: “I wanted Dark Dark Dark to open for Adele on an “epic female vocalists and body-positive-famous girls” bill that would’ve stolen the world.”
Interview | Josh T. Pearson
Last of the Country Gentlemen, as a statement about Josh T. Pearson, only tells half the story. This year’s masterpiece of gutwrenchingly personal country-folk is expertly recounted, masterfully played and needfully drawn-out. But in talking to the man or seeing…