-SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER- Tonight The Wave Pictures pull off a rare feat. Without introduction the four piece take to the stage and launch straight into their opening number which begins with a solid minute of vocals accompanied only by David Tattersall’s gentle and deliberate flashes of guitar. Usually this would result in thirty seconds of […]
Joy Against The Machine(s) So, here’s the promised party. After the circumspect ‘Brushes With Happiness’, The Wave Pictures are back on the road with the joyous ‘Look Inside Your Heart’, a spontaneous bunch of songs to celebrate long-term friendships and long-live-drunken-parties. You listen to their new album and suddenly wish you could be part of […]
Gloomy in the wind Ironically enough, the nice guys from The Wave Pictures bring us the brand new and rather melancholic album titled ‘Brushes With Happiness’ out tomorrow Friday 22nd June, under the wings of Moshi Moshi. Don’t be misled by the title then. Expect a bunch of songs that will very likely break your […]
The Wave Pictures reveal the new video for their current single, ‘Bamboo Diner in the Rain’, taken from their new album of the same name. The video is The Wave Pictures’ second collaboration with talented London filmmaker, Ed Prosser. The band says of the video: “Ed’s surreal vision of the song seems to encompass both […]
Following their mammoth UK tour and the release of their latest long-player Bamboo Diner in the Rain via Moshi Moshi, The Wave Pictures share the next single ‘Now I Want To Hoover My Brain Clean’. The song is inspired by the Terminator movies and sees The Wave Pictures battling against the robot music apocalypse. It’s a bluesy, boozy love […]
‘Pool Hall’ is the new single by Silent Radio favourites (and two times guests on our radio show here & here) The Wave Pictures, taken from their forthcoming album Bamboo Diner in the Rain, due out on Moshi Moshi on 11 November. Following on from last year’s Billy Childish collaboration Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon […]
The Wave Pictures have unveiled a new video to accompany their latest single, The Fire Alarm. The single, which is taken from their latest record Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon, will be released on May 4. Directors Hot Gulp say of the video: “It was inspired by a Death Cab for Cutie video which see Lance […]
– THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – It’s Friday night and what better way to start the weekend than visiting a sold-out Deaf Institute for some live music? Tonight’s visitors are The Wave Pictures, touring on the back of new album release Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon. The album was co-written and produced by Billy Childish. […]
The Wave Pictures have shared the new single taken from their forthcoming album, Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon. I Could Hear the Telephone (3 Floors Above Me) will be released on February 9, the week before the release of the album on Moshi Moshi. The band, comprised of Jonny Helm, Dave Tattersall and Franic Rozycki, […]
The Wave Pictures have unveiled a new video and a UK tour for February next year. The London based band have previewed a video for Pea Green Coat, the last song on the band’s new record Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon, which will be released through Moshi Moshi on February 16. To mark the new […]
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