Next week sees the release of ‘ten’ – a charity album which marks 10 years of Manchester musicians raising money for Manchester Aid to Kosovo featuring the likes of Elbow, Doves, Stephen Fretwell and Jim Noir – and to celebrate…
News: EELS – world tour and free EP
Good news for people who like good music. EELS are very selflessly spending their summer traipsing all over the world so folk like you and I will have a chance to see them play. The band will be on the…
Live: Jesca Hoop @ Leeds Cockpit – 21/03/2011
In a cramped, sweaty bunker of a venue, Jesca Hoop is serenity itself, charming an attentive Leeds crowd with a hypnotic set of her eclectic but distinctive melodies. The little arched attic at the top of the Cockpit ought to…
News: Mechanical Bride announces debut album + free download
Over at FFS HQ we’ve been looking forward to what we’re about to tell you for SO long that no amount of ‘long-awaited’s and ‘much-anticipated’s will cover it. The brilliant Mechanical Bride has finally announced her first album, Living With…
Little Sister Blue
Little Sister Blue’s multi-instrumentalist Sarah-Louise MacDonald and her three multi-talented friends have an EP Incidentally Yours To Keep out now on the Peppercorn Arts label – and in planet-friendly packaging, no less! James Robinson: I would say that Little Sister Blue sounds like Norah Jones (not…
Album: Timber Timbre – Creep On Creepin’ On
The concept of “genre fiction” or the “genre movie” is never one that’s stretched into the musical realm. Music is dealt with in terms of genres, but the idea of a band belonging to “genre music”, a set of recognisable,…