Jim F, Author at Backseat Mafia

Meet: Gerard Langley of The Blue Aeroplanes, plus new reissue / tour dates

I suppose I would have been about 18. I’d gone along to the Trent Polytechnic (in those days we had such things) to watch my then favourites, The Darling Buds.…

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Meet: Keida – Dancehall, Jamaica & Me.

I’m pretty sure I saw a glimpse of sun the other day, although I may well have been mistaken. It reminded me (well, sort of reminded me) that I once…

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Music

New Music: Lost Ghosts – Tunnels

I remember my debut quite clearly. The first concert I ever played in I was (just) eight years old. Even by eight year old standards I was rather a runt…

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Joel Compass – Fucked up Huxley Remix, plus Video

We’ve met Joel Compass before. Not in a literal sense of course, I was just searching for a new way of saying I’d written about him. He’s one of…

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See: Vampire Weekend – Diane Young Video, Plus Tour News

How did it happen? You know that four regular guys, Ezra Koenig, Rostam Batmanglij, Chris Baio, and Chris Tomson firstly met, and then formed Vampire Weekend in 2006 while attending…

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Live: Ghostpoet / Typesun, Queens Social Club

Ghostpoet arrived in Sheffield last week, on his tour in support of second album ‘Some say I so I say light’, which following on from his debut the 2011 debut…

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Track: I set the Sea on Fire release new single, W.A.K.E.

I set the sea on fire are a five piece outfit from the city of Sheffield. It consists of Billy Washington on vocals and guitar, Peter Jenkins, vocals and bass,…

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Meet: Drenge

Drenge are made up of two brothers, Eoin and Rory Loveless who hail from the Peak District, not far from us (well, me) in Sheffield. They are a duo in…

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See: Fat Freddys Drop – Clean the House Video

It’s difficult when writing about Fat Freddy’s Drop to pigeonhole them. Their music takes so many twists and turns and draw in so many thinks that it constantly messes with…

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See: Lewis Watson releases new video for single, Calling

Coming out on Warner Bros. on July 1st is the latest EP from Lewis Watson ‘Four More Songs’. You may have already heard title track ‘Calling’ over the airwaves,…

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