tour news
NEWS: Cabbage announce 13-date UK tour for May
CABBAGE, Mossley’s marauding Mondaysesque gang of sprawling tunesters, have announced a tour, necessarily and unfortunately ‘rona-delayed, in support of their forthcoming album, Amanita Pantherina. The album’s out on Friday week, September 25th; but it’ll be almost a full year by the time the lads are unleashed from their Pennine fastness to run riot on stages …
NEWS: bdrmm announce EP for October – hear a track; tour news
YORKSHIRE’S rather excellent shoegazers bdrmm have announced a new EP, The Bedroom Tapes, which they’ll be releasing through the offices of Sonic Cathedral on October 23rd. The EP will consist of seven tracks, and will collate remixes and lockdown sessions as a follow-up to their excellent debut album Bedroom, which was released earlier in the …
SEE: The video for A Certain Ratio’s ‘Berlin’: UK dates for 2021
MANCHESTER legends A Certain Ratio, whose brilliant new album ACR Loco will be with us on Mute come September 25th, have just dropped the video for the none-more-Mancunian effortless pop of “Berlin” – we’ve embedded it, below. And it really is a great record: we’ve embraced its taut, breathtaking funk and its intelligent pop and …
NEWS: Erland Cooper announces Barbican performance; tour dates confirmed
YOUR favourite Orcadian psychogeographer and acclaimed forger of musical atmospheres, Erland Cooper, is to give a special performance at London’s Barbican on Saturday, October 10th. The event, designed for live broadcast, is part of the autumn Live from the Barbican series: a dozen events which will also feature Nubya Garcia, Richard Dawson, The Divine Comedy …
NEWS: Erasure announce dates for 2021
THEY’VE just released their latest, glittering synth opus, The Neon, for Mute; and today Andy Bell and Vince Clarke, aka Erasure, have announced The Neon Tour for next autumn. Andy says: “We’re so excited to be able to – at last – announce dates for The Neon Tour! We’d hoped to have seen you sooner, …
SEE: Red Rum Club – ‘Ballerino’: some proper shapes thrown, tour news
YEAH, you think you’ve got moves, Christopher Walken? The star of Deerhunter and so many other Hollywood classics, who revealed he had an absolute line on owning the dancefloor in the video for Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon Of Choice“, has got some serious Liverpudlian landlord competition coming at him thanks to Red Rum Club. The Merseyside …
SEE: bdrmm’s ‘Gush’ gets a short film; tour news; album on red vinyl
SONIC CATHEDRAL’S excellent young shoegazers bdrmmm have released a “Gush” as a single today from their debut LP – and there’s a limited red-vinyl pressing of the album available now at selected independents. “Gush” is a rather gorgeous autumnal yearn of a ‘gaze tune, Ryan’s vocals a dreamy call blending with the guitars. And it …
NEWS: Penelope Isles announce dates for 2021; watch the final episode of Penny Isles TV
THE LOVELY, lovely Penelope Isles, who released their debut album Until The Tide Creeps In to acclaim last year, and played more than 100 shows, have announced a string of dates for the new year. They’ve also released the final episode in their Penny Isles TV series, which sees them touring in the US with Wallows. As …
SEE: Wax Machine’s ‘Truth’: Brighton deep psych travellers announce tour dates
WAX MACHINE are a name you really ought to scribe on your albums wants list if you like your guitars, pyrotechnic; your spectrum, fully rainbow; your flutes, trilling. They released their debut LP, Earthsong of Silence on Beyond Beyond is Beyond in March, and it swirls with the psych colours and neckerchiefs of a London welcoming Hendrix to …
NEWS: The Lathums announce 2021 UK tour, see their latest single
ISLAND’S heart-on-the-sleeve Wigan indiepopsters The Lathums have announced a string of shows for April and May next year, taking in their biggest venues to date – including the historic Manchester Ritz. Tickets for the 13-date British run of dates go on sale at 10am this Friday, July 31st. The full list of dates for the tour are …