TELEMAN UNVEIL ‘DÜSSELDORF’ VIDEO
Teleman share the video for their new single, ‘Düsseldorf’, an unabashed pop track and the second to be heard from their forthcoming second album, Brilliant Sanity. The album and single are due for release on April 8th 2016. The video was directed by Daniel Brereton (Kindness, Metronomy, Connan Mockasin), who said the following about the video: ‘The idea came about from discussions with Jonny from the band – we had a few different approaches that we worked through.... Read More
LIVE: PALEHOUND – 01/03/2016
Palehound – GULLIVER’S, MANCHESTER – Palehound is the alias of Ellen Kempner – an unflinching female guitarist and singer unafraid to lay bare her insecurities and imperfections through her music. Tonight is both a strange and special night for Ellen and her band, special as it is their first ever show in the UK, strange as their album is yet to come out in the UK – it was released in America last August but only gets a European release this coming Friday (4... Read More
LIVE: ALL THEM WITCHES – 29/02/2016
All Them Witches – GULLIVER’S, MANCHESTER – Heady psychedelia & Southern sweet-sour blues? I can’t think of a better match. Apart from gin & tonic, I mean. We are getting far from 9.30pm at a cramped Gulliver’s Victorian ballroom, when a silent guy with a plain ‘Maine’ cup enters the stage and starts checking the keys. He disappears for a while. Then a Texan-styled skinny guy wanders the stage and tunes a beautiful vintage bass. Another... Read More
LIVE: FUN LOVIN’ CRIMINALS – 26/02/2016
Fun Lovin’ Criminals – MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL – “You must be crazy coming to see the Fun Lovin’ Criminals in a church on a Friday night, but that’s what I like about you,” the charismatic Huey Morgan says to the massed ranks of his congregation. Crazy or not, there is no hotter ticket in town tonight – the touts outside the sold out venue are evidence of that. For the Fun Lovin’ Criminals this is the latest gig as part of a tour celebrating... Read More
SLOWCOACHES RELEASE VIDEO FOR ‘EX HEAD’
London punks Slowcoaches have revealed a music video to accompany their new single ‘Ex Head’, which is out today via Leisure & District. The video was conceptualised and created by Maria Cecilia Tedemalm and its second half features vocalist/bassist Heather Perkins eating her own head in cake form. A whole cake. As she says “Maria and I did the cake stuff on Valentine’s day. I walked in to this cake shop and asked for 2 cans of whipped cream and the cake and they... Read More
LIVE: BLOSSOMS – 27/02/2016
Blossoms – THE ALBERT HALL, MANCHESTER – ‘Hello Manchester, we’re Blossoms from Stockport.’ A swelling of lights, then smoke fills the bosom of The Albert Hall. From the balcony, straps that hold the bulge of the room, I scream back ‘SK2’. This is postcode code. We can locate Blossoms more precisely than Stockport. These blossoms sprouted from the cracks in the suburb that is SK2. Davenport and Cale Green. I know that because that’s my manor.... Read More
TIM HECKER RELEASES NEW TRACK ‘CASTRATI STACK’
Tim Hecker’s forthcoming album, Love Streams, is released on April 8th 2016. His debut record for 4AD, Hecker today releases the first taste from the album, a track entitled ‘Castrati Stack’. Inspired by notions of 15th century choral scores transposed to an artificial intelligence-era language of digital resonance and bright synths, Love Streams was assembled gradually, with layers of studio-tracked keyboards, choir and woodwinds being woven into the mix, then... Read More
DAUGHTER LAUNCH ‘HOW’ VIDEO
Daughter – the London-based trio of Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella – have launched the final instalment of their film triptych, for the single ‘How’ (taken from their second album Not To Disappear) Directed by BAFTA-nominated filmmakers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard (creators of the startling Nick Cave feature film 20,000 Days On Earth), the video treatment for ‘How’ was inspired by the short story ‘5,040’ –... Read More
LIVE: BAD GRAMMAR – 27/03/2015
Bad Grammar – THE CASTLE HOTEL, MANCHESTER – When I arrive at The Castle Hotel, unfortunately it’s too late for the first band Elephantine, but I am on time for support act Violet Violet. The Norwich duo, Felicity/Fliss Kitson on drums and Cheri Percy on guitar, have been playing together since they met at sixth form but decided to call it quits in 2010, after 8 years, to focus on their education, their other passions and, for Kitson, on other musical projects (The... Read More
DUTCH UNCLES SHARE NEW SINGLE
Dutch Uncles have shared the latest single to be taken from their fourth album, O Shudder. Upsilon will be released on Memphis Industries on May 19, backed by B-side Realm.“’Upsilon’ is about an overdramatic decision to quit Facebook or MySpace because, when you’re young, you don’t always have the capacity to see other people’s lives (or the bits they want to show you at least) for what they really are,” explains lead vocalist Duncan Wallis. “This... Read More
