Famous Last Words Records - FLW

23/01/2024

Happy New Year, one and all. Whether you celebrate Christmas or anything else or nothing at all, we hope that you've had a restful, troublefree and essentially contented few weeks, and if you're looking ahead to a year filled with great new - or old - music, well, we've got your back!

On the cover of the new issue, we've got the great Billy Bragg, while inside we hear from the The Gipsy Kings, Stray- Del Bromham, Dave Peabody, John Francis Flynn, Feast of Fiddles, Leo Lyons Musician, Hannah Rose Platt, Philip Sayce, KillerStar, Johnny Campbell, Honey & The Bear, Conchúr White, Nicky Rubin, Paper Sparrows, SARAH BROWN, Edward Abbiati - ex-Lowlands and more....

Plus there's our usual UnHerd CD with new music from Braintree's finest, Beans on Toast plus Nick Cody Music Projects, Ferocious Dog, John Devlin, Alan Clayson, Matthew Robb, HeKz, Christina Martin, My Glass World, Nina Åkerblom Nielsen, Lola Rose, Phil Lewthwaite, Mickciternwalsh, Toni Bunnell and others...

On its way to subscribers now, it'll be in all good newsagents in the next few days....

30/03/2023

Well spring is... just about... with us! Although you'd barely know it. But luckily there's a new issue trudging through the wind, rain and snow to let you know all that's coming up in music for you to dip your ears into! On the cover of the new mag we've got Scots award-winners Skerryvore, while inside you can find Jake Thackray, John McCusker, Julie Tippetts, Kenny Vaughan, Soul Asylum, Hack-Poets Guild, The Urban Voodoo Machine, The Magpie Arc, Lisa O'Neill, Blackbeard's Tea Party, Arielle, Eamonn McCormack, Hector Gannet, Stick in the Wheel, Jonas Fjeld, Andreas Ihlebæk, Tom Ovans and many more.

PLUS! There's our regular FREE UnHerd CD featuring 19 tracks of ne music including songs from The Levellers, Kirsten Adamson, Steve Pledger, Simon Mayor, The Curse of K.K. Hammond, Bronwynne Brent, Ash Gray & The Burners, Annie Dressner, Matt McGuinness & the MLC, Sleep in Motion, Eric Allen Music, Miles Hoyle and more.

Currently on its way to subscribers, it'll be in all good music shops a few days later.

18/02/2023

Defeater - 'Dear Father' ❤

Defeater perform "Dear Father" on Audiotree Live, April 24, 2015. YouTube playlist: http://bit.ly/28UUPhPSubscribe to Audiotreetv: http://bit.ly/1LLy4urWatch...

22/12/2022

This is it. Final interview. FATBOY arrive @ FLW and discuss current single 'The Storm'.

Entering the fray after an absence from the music scene, Sweden’s FATBOY return with a fresh single and record deal. There is a rather unique band stemming from Sweden who happen to straddle several musical genres, and somehow manage to make all those different components tick to their own tune. T...

22/12/2022

This is it. Final interview @ FLW. FATBOY discuss latest single 'The Storm'

Entering the fray after an absence from the music scene, Sweden’s FATBOY return with a fresh single and record deal. There is a rather unique band stemming from Sweden who happen to straddle several musical genres, and somehow manage to make all those different components tick to their own tune. T...

22/12/2022

Such a talented artist, Terry Hall is remembered.

As the pioneering 2 Tone band’s lead singer, Hall’s impassive style made him a star – and helped him weather the vicissitudes of fame, the changing charts and British decline

21/12/2022

The Specials and classic 'Ghost Town'.

You are watching the official remastered HD video for of ‘Ghost Town’ by The Specials. A timeless classic, which originally reached the UK number on in June...

20/12/2022

Really sad news, Terry Hall of the Specials, Fun Boy Three, the Colourfield dies aged 63.

His distinctively dour voice can be heard on hits like Ghost Town, Gangsters and Too Much, Too Young.

17/11/2022

Older, wiser, and still reaching for the stars, Simple Minds 'First You Jump'.

The official video for ‘First You Jump’, the second single from Simple Minds' eighteenth studio album 'Direction of the Heart' - set for release on 21st Octo...

14/11/2022

For many music lovers never went out of fashion, but there's a CD revival well and truly underway in 2022.

Compact discs never had the romance of vinyl or the convenience of MP3s. But they're still the ideal format for getting lost inside your music collection.

28/10/2022

Last of the great rock 'n' rollers & SUN records legend Jerry Lee Lewis dies aged 87.

Artist’s songs such as Great Balls of Fire helped install rock’n’roll as the dominant American pop music of the 1950s

18/10/2022

Sad day for the world of rockabilly, rock 'n' roll and punk, the very talented Robert Gordon dies aged 75

Robert Gordon, one of rockabilly’s earliest revivalists and a familiar presence on the 1970s New York City punk rock scene, died Tuesday at the age of 75, his record label confirms to Variety. No c…