Blog: recommending Maria Byrne

Imagine FFS’s delight when we received this beautiful hand-stitched CD cover in the post.  Causing FFS’s other half to comment rather cynically “She’s got you figured out”. Well perhaps she has, but that doesn’t alter the fact that the EP…

FFS interview: The Living Sisters

Becky Stark: “We wanted to make music everyone can listen to. These are the songs you’re brought up with, you know? The songs that everyone knows, The Beatles, Ella… and they become everybody’s music. It’s kind of like everyone owns them. Like The Beatles songs, or Amazing Grace… My mom used to do these teachings, on a Sunday afternoon. The Church of Popular Culture. We’d listen to the charts, and the current music and we’d learn them, and dance to them, but we’d learn from them too. Karma Chameleon. When that came out, we learnt about karma, and materialism, from Material Girl.”

Save 6 Music: Your letters to the BBC Trustees

We asked you to CC us in on your letters to the BBC trustees about the proposed closure of BBC 6music. We’ll be collecting them here. Remember to email the BBC Trustees to tell them what you think of their decision and keep your DAB radio tuned to six, or listen live on iPlayer.

We’ll not be having this. Oh no.

BBC Confirms 6Music to be axed

This morning, Mark Thompson, Director General of the BBC, announced to staff that the rumoured cuts to BBC programming are indeed to take place.  6 Music will close some time around the end of 2011, along with the BBC Asian…