Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley (White Fence) have teamed up for a second album as DRINKS. The new album, Hippo Lite, will be released on Drag City worldwide on April 20, 2018. DRINKS began in 2015 with the release of their debut LP, Hermits on Holiday on Presley’s own Birth Records. Today they’ve shared […]
– THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – Known as being one of Cate Le Bon’s favourite venues, tonight she returns for the second night in a row to a packed Deaf Institute. “I wish I could play Manchester every night”. Her latest album ‘Crab Day’ somehow managed to upstage her superb 2013 album, ‘Mug Museum’, and so […]
– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – Gorilla is one of those venues that feels ready made for a mosh pit, for a crowd of sweaty rock fans pogo-ing into one another. It’s a great little venue that provides intimacy for the audience, artists and bands. Tonight though, it’s unlikely that there’ll be any moshing as the venue […]
With her much-anticipated fourth album Crab Day due for release 15th April on Turnstile, Cate Le Bon has unveiled a video to new single ‘Wonderful‘. Directed by regular collaborator Casey Raymond and shot in Berlin, the video features our heroine performing an idiosyncratic freeform dance-cum-exercise routine. Of the video Cate says: “Wonderful is an awkward love song accompanied by an equally awkward video. […]
CATE LE BON will release her fourth album Crab Day on 15th April via Turnstile on CD and download. In the US the album will be released via Drag City. Recorded at Panoramic House studio, West Marin, California last spring, Crab Day was produced by Noah Georgson and Josiah Steinbrick. According to Cate: “Crab Day […]
– SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER – Lights dance off the audience’s head, an ear piercing twang sounds from the guitar and Cate Le Bon stands to the side of Tim Presley, the White Denim bassist, with an unnerving presence. If this band didn’t consist of musicians of such pedigree, who knows if Soup Kitchen’s basement would […]
The new project from Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley, aka White Fence, have announced their second single from their upcoming album Hermits On Holiday (21st August) via Heavenly Recordings. Pre-order the album here DRINKS upcoming tour includes a date at Manchester’s Soup Kitchen in September Live dates: Saturday 5th September – LARMER TREE GARDENS – End Of The Road Sunday 6th […]
DRINKS is the new project from Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley, aka White Fence, whose album Hermits On Holiday will be released 21st August via Heavenly Recordings The LP can be pre-ordered from the Drinks Bandcamp while the single will be available as a limited edition 7″ backed by a track entitled ‘Eighteen Teenage […]
– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – I last saw Cate Le Bon in support of St. Vincent at The Deaf Institute almost 3 years ago. Since that superb set, where she stood on stage with just a small pink practice amp and a guitar for company, she has released her finest album to date – ‘Mug Museum’, […]
Following her sold-out February tour, CATE LE BON has announced news of her biggest London headline show to date, performing at KOKO in September as part of her UK run. Ahead of this Cate will performing at a number of UK festivals, with more to be announced soon. Upcoming UK live info below: Friday 08 […]
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