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New: Charlie Barnes announces UK tour dates
Sometime Bastille touring sideman Charlie Barnes has announced a full-band UK tour ahead of the release of his sophomore album ‘Oceanography’ ‘Oceanography’, his second album for Superball Music is the follow up to 2015’s post-pop monster ‘More Stately Mansions’, finds Barnes in a different place in his life. The past two years have seen huge …
News: Release of early Duran Duran ‘Girls on Film’ demo EP
Cleopatra Records take us back to the beginnings of Duran Duran with the release of the ‘Girls on Film’ demo EP, which features rare recordings but no Simon Le Bon. The ‘Girls on Film 1979 Demo’ EP (available now via Cleopatra Records) features rare, previously unreleased debut recordings – including the original version of ‘Girls …
News: Sigrid wins BBC sound of 2018
The BBC have been pioneering new music for many years (just like we like we do here at Backseat Mafia towers). Their annual poll artists and bands we can expect to see more of over the next twelve months has always created quite a buzz amongst the music industry and listeners alike. Previous winners have …
News: Charlotte Gainsbourg announces European/Japanese tour dates
With the sound of her current single ‘Songbird in a cage’, co-written by Sir Paul McCartney, rattling around your radios, Charlotte Gainsbourg had revealed a run of European and Japanese tour dates, including a show at London’s Village Underground on March 29th. It’ll be her first appearance on the capital since her acclaimed performance at …
Track: Aimee Mann – Patient Zero, plus album news
Aimee Mann has consistently delivered beautiful and thought provoking since her debut solo album ‘Whatever’. It’s hard to believe that was over twenty years ago, but it’s still a record that keeps popping to the surface again and again in my listening material, and still sounds as fresh as the day it was released. Much …
Track: Alice Jemima covers No Diggity
Ahead of her debut self-titled album, out on Sunday Best Recordings on March 3rd, pop newcomer Alice Jemima has released her cover of Blackstreet’s No Diggity. In Jemima’s own words, ‘I first chose to cover ‘No Diggity’ after hearing Chet Fakers striped-back version of it – but I wasn’t planning to do anything with it, …
News: Natives Announced As Only Support For Busted Dates
With Busted’s Night Driver tour just around the corner, what better time to get to know a little about the tour’s sole support, Natives?! Described as ‘a clean slice of euphoric pop’ by The Independent, The New Forest tribal-pop quartet will play 24 dates in support of Busted, which span right from the first date …
News: Travis cover Del Amitri cracker for Christmas charity single
Travis plan to make something happen for a good cause with their festive cover of Del Amitri hit ‘Nothing Ever Happens’. The single (available for pre-order download on iTunes today) is a cover of one of Del Amitri’s best-known songs wrapped up in Fran Healy’s distinctive, warm vocals and tied together with sparkling sleigh bells ringing. …
News: Busted Announce UK Tour For 2017
Following the release of their new single On What You’re On a couple of weeks ago, recently reunited pop-trio Busted have announced a UK tour! January 29th sees the start of this UK jaunt at Norwich’s NEA, and will grace stages such as London’s Hammersmith Eventim Apollo, before winding up in Dublin on March 1st. …
New KT Tunstall announces new album KIN, plus tour news
Scottish singer KT Tunstall has announced the release of her fifth studio album, entitled KIN. With her last album being released in 2013, two years ago nearly saw Tunstall leave the world of music: “As an artist I feel like I died,” she says. “I stopped. I gave up. I didn’t want to do it …