Reviews

Greetings to readers of Anyone’s Guess

Monday, February 25th, 2008

San Francisco-based music and culture blog Anyone’s Guess have posted a nice review of the ”Lighting & Electrical” album and included a pretty accurate assessment of our business acumen into the bargain.
“Friends of the stars have a fine operation going, which is to say no operation at all.  They make music, pretty durn good music at that, […]

Greetings to readers of Hypeful

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

The nice folks at Hypeful.com have not only given”Lighting & Electrical” a glowing review on their site but have also labelled us as a “Band To Watch”. Amongst other things they had this to say:
“Their new disc is packed with the kind of authentically sad, lovely, and whiskey-drenched tunes that are tragically absent from the modern […]

Big City, Small Internet

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Congratulations to Pete Ashton on winning a Guardian New Media award for his Created In Birmingham website.
Pete has been kind about our band in the past and in a round-up of other Birmingham blogs/websites he has this to say:
And also on the “lovely people” tip, Friends of the Stars blog well because their souls are pure. […]