Lisa-Marie Ferla
Lisa-Marie Ferla
- Bio
- Lis has been famous on the internet since 1999; the result of having a blog which predates the existence of the term "blogging". Although she 'daylights' as a legal journalist, after hours she writes about new music for publications including the Scotsman and the Herald. She is based in Glasgow.
Articles by Lisa-Marie Ferla
CD: Devendra Banhart - Mala
Thursday, 07 March 2013
Devendra Banhart has never been afraid to push boundaries and mix genres. Still, of all the ways the once-prolific songwriter could have chosen to return, releasing a dance album is surely one of the... Read more... |
CD: Caitlin Rose - The Stand In
Saturday, 02 March 2013
She has yet to hit the second half of her twenties, but Caitlin Rose already has a voice to melt the heart of the most casual listener. While her pedigree - Nashville-born daughter of a Grammy-... Read more... |
Black Mirror: The Waldo Moment, Channel 4
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
After the nightmarish vision of justice system turned spectator sport that was last week’s Black Mirror, you’d be forgiven for feeling a little disappointed that writer Charlie Brooker hadn’t ramped... Read more... |
Storyville: Google and the World Brain/How Hackers Changed the World, BBC Four
Thursday, 21 February 2013
At what stage will the trend among journalists and documentarians to regard anything relating to the internet with suspicion or, worse, ignorance come to an end? Although I recognise that my... Read more... |
CD: Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse
Thursday, 14 February 2013
In theory, it’s close to impossible to achieve some semblance of mainstream success without being decried as a sellout by at least a proportion of your fanbase. Yet I don’t think there was a Scottish... Read more... |
CD: Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob
Sunday, 10 February 2013
To hear them tell it, Tegan and Sara have always been pop stars. It was harder to see a decade ago, sure, when they were spitting out spiky guitar anthems in matching pixie haircuts, but the roots... Read more... |
Nashville, More4
Friday, 08 February 2013
Usually that “similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental” note at the end of a broadcast is a mere formality - but I can’t have been the only person to react with a start when a trio... Read more... |
CD: Thao & the Get Down Stay Down - We The Common
Thursday, 31 January 2013
Thao Nguyen is a versatile lady. Nearly two years on from her blissful, tUnE-yArDs-produced collaboration with indie songwriter Mirah, this third album with her own band the Get Down Stay Down brings... Read more... |
CD: Rick Redbeard - No Selfish Heart
Sunday, 27 January 2013
On first play No Selfish Heart, the solo debut from The Phantom Band’s stately baritone Rick Anthony, sounds a world away from the sonic experimentation often played out in the singer’s work... Read more... |
Call The Midwife, Series Two, BBC One
Monday, 21 January 2013
I somehow avoided the period medical drama phenomenon that Call the Midwife became in its first series until the Christmas special. As befits the holiday season its storyline was trite, focusing on a... Read more... |
CD: The History of Apple Pie - Out of View
Monday, 21 January 2013
A confession: for much of this debut album from London fuzz-pop fivesome The History of Apple Pie, I have little to no idea what vocalist Stephanie Min is on about. Sweet and half-whispered, floating... Read more... |
Dropkick Murphys, Barrowlands, Glasgow
Thursday, 17 January 2013
Was there ever a band to generate such passionate fan adulation as Dropkick Murphys? Keeping up a chant of "Let's Go Murphys" for a good 10 minutes before there was any sign of the Boston seven-piece... Read more... |
CD: Solange - True
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Writing about True without naming the elephant in the room was always going to be a challenge, even if the younger Ms Knowles’ next move had built on the more experimental sounds of her earlier work... Read more... |
My Mad Fat Diary, E4
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
About the only thing I dislike about My Mad Fat Diary is the title. Based on a similarly-titled teenage memoir by the writer Rae Earl, the first episode of this six-part comedy drama is touching,... Read more... |
CD: Dropkick Murphys - Signed and Sealed in Blood
Sunday, 13 January 2013
“The boys are back and they’re looking for trouble.” So goes the opening chorus on Signed and Sealed in Blood, the eighth album from cult Celtic punks Dropkick Murphys. As battle cries go it’s a... Read more... |
Spies of Warsaw, BBC Four
Thursday, 10 January 2013
It’s rare for a wartime drama not to hide behind an elliptic or poetic title. Spies of Warsaw - a two-part adaptation of Alan Furst’s 2008 novel of the same name - misses out on a place in the canon... Read more... |
How to contact Lisa-Marie Ferla
- http://facebook.com/lygblog
- personal website
- http://lastyearsgirl.pixlet.net
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