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News: New Single from Rivers Johansson – Taken from Forthcoming Album, Long Way Down
RIVERS JOHANSSON DEVIL’S BACKBONE MAN DEMOLISH RECORDS // 3 NOVEMBER 2022 Devil’s Backbone will be launched with a free entry gig at Hull Dive on Thursday 3 November. RIVERS JOHANSSON is proud to announce the release of his forthcoming new single DEVIL’S BACKBONE on 3 November via Man Demolish Records. A song, or in the …
News: Reading and Leeds Festival announce first acts for 2022
What better way to cure the December blues than with a summer festival line-up announcement; and Reading and Leeds have absolutely pulled it out of the bag with their first release of artists for 2022. Following on from R&L ’21, the festival is sticking with six headliners with no clash between the top billed artists. …
See: Penelope Isles share the video for ‘Have You Heard?’ ahead of their Islington gig on Saturday – and they’re criss-crossing the UK in the new year
WITH DESERVED rave reviews across the board for their second album, Which Way To Happy, out now digitally and with vinyl, cassette and CD following really early into 2022, the lovely Penelope Isles have dropped a new video, this time for the Lily-led “Have You Heard”. They’ve also been added to the bill for Bella …
See: C Duncan brings the hymnal delicacy of ‘The Wedding Song’ to end the year – watch the animated lyric video
DELICATE Glaswegian songsmith C Duncan has doubled down on the glitter of last month’s single, “Alluvium”, with just one more song to round off the year and to keep you abreast of happenings connected with his next album, due in the new year on Bella Union. The track is called “The Wedding Song” and it’s romantic, …
News: Jack Cheshire finally launches his excellent ‘Fractal Future Plays’ album with a gig and a live stream
JACK CHESHIRE is a voyage in the best traditions of a very British strain of pastorally inflected psychedelia who, by some as-yet unexplained quirk of the space-time continuum, isn’t as yet a leading household name for lovers of beautiful and mysterious, graceful rock; but then, if we investigate some of the theories underpinning his cracking …
Premiere: The Jazz Butcher – ‘Time’: RIP, Pat, but there’s one final album in store and a celebratory gig in Camden this weekend
THE JAZZ BUTCHER is one of those artists who make indiepop kids of a certain generation go misty eyed, and with good reason; Pat Fish, the man behind the jazz despatching curtain, as it were, was an all-round gentleman of the whimsical song, someone you’d definitely find in the kitchen at parties; sometime indie television …
News: In The Round festival returns to The Roundhouse in January, featuring Goat Girl, Richard Dawson, Emeli Sandé and more
NOW INTO its sixth year – though, for reasons we need not dwell on now, not its sixth consecutive – the multivalent In The Round festival is back at The Roundhouse in London’s Camden from January 15th to the 24th next year, and will feature eight shows carefully chosen from across the musical spectrum. There’ll …
News: Dimple Discs to stage Sack, Keeley and Dragon Welding at the legendary Lexington next month
DIMPLE DISCS, the small-is-beautiful home of Damien O’Neill, Cathal Coughlan and others, is staging a trio of bands associated with the label at Islington’s legendary The Lexington early next month – and on the bill are cult Dublin combo Sack, who’ll be appearing in London for the first time in 20 years. The quintet who …
News: As Coventry assumes the mantle of City of Culture, The Pop Group and Dennis Bovell are confirmed for a July live premiere of ‘Y Dub’, with a Mute release following
THE CRADLE of Two Tone, Coventry, is busy donning its finery as it assumes the mantle of UK City of Culture 2021; and none other than Terry Hall himself is bringing a series of great gigs to the city entitled Terry Hall Presents At Home Sessions. And one of the most eye-opening bills during the …
NEWS: The Orielles announce live stream show from Hebden Bridge
HALIFAX’s lovely, all-conquering The Orielles are determined to bring a little light into our pervading winter with the announcement that they’re putting on a live-stream show from The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, just down valley from their home patch, at 8pm on Saturday, December 5th. It rounds off a year that saw them drop their acclaimed …