LIVE: GWENNO – 09/03/2018

-GULLIVERS, MANCHESTER- According to the 2011 National Census, there are 577 people that name Cornish as their first language. A small number, but not so bad when you consider that as of the late 18th century, the language was officially extinct. The resurgence has been going for some decades now, and one of the leading […]

Having last month signalled her 2018 return, Gwenno has now announced the release date of her new album Le Kov on Friday 2nd March 2018 via Heavenly Recordings. Gwenno has also announced a bunch of live performances in support of the album, beginning in early December in Falmouth and Merthyr Tydfil and running through to April 2018 with a show at London’s Hoxton […]

GWENNO ANNOUNCES LIVE 2017/18 UK TOUR DATES IN SUPPORT OF ‘LE KOV’ OUT MARCH 2018

GWENNO SAUNDERS SHARES TRAILER FOR NEW CORNISH ALBUM ‘LE KOV’ DUE FOR RELEASE SPRING 2018

With her debut album, 2014’s Y Dydd Olaf (The Final Day), Gwenno Saunders made a bold statement about the importance of protecting minority languages. Drawing from her upbringing as the daughter of Welsh and Cornish language activists, and Welsh writer Owain Owain’s 1976 sci-fi novel of the same name, her psychedelic synth-pop opus won the 2015 Welsh Music Prize […]

Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia have unveiled their final additions to this year’s festival bill, with a swathe of names joining iconic Welsh psych trailblazers SUPER FURRY ANIMALS and London’s kaleidoscopic dreamweavers THE HORRORS on 23 + 24 September. PURE PHASE ENSEMBLE featuring MARK GARDENER (Ride) will make their debut UK performance at this year’s […]

FULL LINE-UP & TICKETS ANNOUNCED FOR LIVERPOOL PSYCH FEST 2016

ALBUM REVIEW: GWENNO – Y DYDD OLAF

Can an album sound retro, contemporary and futuristic at the same time? Y Dydd Olaf certainly succeeds in doing so. This is a beautiful album of contrasts from start to finish, and is one that demands close attention. As a non-Welsh (or Cornish) speaker (the featured languages for Y Dydd Olaf), it would be easy […]

GWENNO will embark on a co-headline tour with label-mate H. Hawkline to promote her debut solo album, Y Dydd Olaf. GWENNO, the new project of former Pipettes frontwoman Gwenno Saunders, will release the album, which means The Last Day in English, on July 24 via Heavenly Recordings. You can listen to one of the tracks […]