Jonathan Wilson writes… “As a reviewer it’s all too easy to dismiss solo acoustic artists as ‘just another one of those singer/songwriter fellows’ and upon first listening to Rotten Pear I fell straight into that trap. Who is Andrew Vincent, what’s he on about and if I’m honest why should I even care, why would anybody care? After all, he’s just another man singing about the same old stuff – “I don’t want nobody else/No, I want you” for example. Not yet ready to tackle the banality of another singer/songwriter I switched off the record player and switched on the ever-so-slightly less mind-numbingly inane Hollyoaks omnibus.”
Alessi’s Ark, Treetop Flyers and Draw Me Stories play charity gig at Union Chapel
The enchanting Alessi’s Ark will headline a concert in aid of leukemia charity The Anthony Nolan Trust. The gig on 28th January will be held at London’s Union Chapel and will feature support from FFS favourites West Londoners Treetop Flyers and the…
Album: Nancy Elizabeth – Wrought Iron
There’s about a billion different ways to approach the classification of music, ranging from the very obvious to the really quite useless. On the former’s front, one might choose to classify their music by genres – rock, pop, classical and folk,…
WIN: A pair of tickets to Shhh… feat David Thomas Broughton, Sam Amidon, Dan Michaelson & the Coastguards
There’s nothing better than a gig with a quiet audience where you get to hear great music without any blutered punters inspiring homicidal notions you didn’t know you were capable of. Well the lovely chaps at The Line of Best…
Left With Pictures announce new project
Never content to rest on their laurels, Left With Pictures have set themselves a mammoth task for 2010. Their new project, In Time, will be the work of a whole year, with the boys writing, recording and releasing one song…
Owl Parliament 2010 line-up announced
Last year, the first Owl Parliament was a wonder of a day: Mechanical Bride, Jeff Lewis, Johnny Flynn and Laura Marling were a few of the stellar acts who performed to a Union Chapel auditorium packed full of numb-bummed music…