Blanketman

BLANKETMAN’S DEBUT EP ‘NATIONAL TRUST’ TO BE RELEASED MARCH 19TH

Manchester based Blanketman have announced their debut EP ‘National Trust’ will be released on March 19th via [PIAS] Recordings. The EP has been produced by Luke Smith, whose previous credits include working with Foals and LIFE. The latest single from the upcoming release is ‘Leave The South’, speaking about that songthe band said: “The song […]
When Eels first emerged in 1995, they were lumped in with all the ‘slacker’ bands around at the time, and although Mark ‘E’ Everett’s vocals do lend themselves nicely to that laid back categorisation, Eels have always been uniquely different. Eels’ songs have been used in tons of films and TV shows, and I’ve got […]

ALBUM: EELS – THE DECONSTRUCTION

ALBUM REVIEW: GHOSTPOET ‘DARK DAYS AND CANAPES’

Often, despite writing poetry, I don’t know where the line is between poetry and song lyrics. Thankfully the mumbled spoken word of Ghostpoet stops the questions and starts the listening as he oscillates between the depth and meaning of poetry and experimental electronic sounds. I don’t know what the genre tag is for his music […]
After two years up in the stratosphere with the hugely successful The Race For Space, Public Service Broadcasting are returning to earth with new album, Every Valley, due to be released Friday 7th July 2017. With J. Willgoose, Esq. who has an established reputation for weaving forensic, historical research into evocative storytelling – this time […]

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING REVEAL NEW ALBUM RELEASE DETAILS

LIVE: GHOSTPOET – 28/05/2013

– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – Things are really moving fast for Obaro Ejimiwe, a.k.a Ghostpoet. His bedroom produced debut album ‘Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam’ was nominated for the Mercury Prize, which thrust him into the limelight with a little help from Gilles Peterson’s label Brownswood. Two years on, he has released his 2nd album (through […]
Two years on from the release of his Mercury nominated debut, ‘Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam’, Ghostpoet announces his sophomore album ‘Some Say I So I Say Light’ which will be released on the 6th May 2013 through Play It Again Sam. Obaro Ejimiwe, aka Ghostpoet, laughs when he remembers how Gilles Peterson “took […]

NEWS: GHOSTPOET – NEW ALBUM DETAILS + UK LIVE DATES

NEWS: WAVE MACHINES – SINGLE ‘ILL FIT’ + UK DATES

With a short run of UK live dates and a brand new 10” single, Wave Machines prepare to deliver the first taster of the new album this October. A tightly wound Prince-esque work out, lead signer Tim Bruzon describes Ill Fit as “the fuzzy moment right before you make a decision to do something right […]
The unique Liz Green received a plethora of praise for her wonderful debut album ‘O, Devotion’! upon its release in November 2011. She played a multitude of radio sessions that included a varied array from 6 Music’s Marc Riley and Radcliffe & Maconie (the station also gave her the ‘Album of the Day’ accolade) and Radio 1’s Gilles Peterson to Radio 4’s Loose Ends & XFM’s John Kennedy and […]

NEWS: LIZ GREEN – NEW SINGLE & TOUR DATES

SINGLE: Harper Simon – Wishes and Stars

Missing the obvious I was going to write, “Harper Simon is a fine musician who sounds a lot like Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel”, when I read the press release and sure enough: he is Paul Simon’s son. Like father like son. I know children want to plough their own furrows, usually in the opposite […]
Morcheeba’s latest single, “Even Though”, sees the original three back together with Skye Edwards joining Paul & Ross Godfrey for their seventh studio album “Blood Like Lemon”. This latest single stands as a prelude to the album which is out on the 7th June. In my eyes, seeing these three back together is a return […]

SINGLE: Morcheeba – Even Though