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June 6, 2022December 19, 2025

Melin Melyn

About Melin Melyn are one of the most exciting acts to emerge from this next golden generation of Cymru artists. Pushing forward on a less traveled bridge between psychedelia, surf , folk and alternative rock. The love child of legends and fellow countrymen Gruff Rhys & Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci (to name a few), their music is also distinctly unique and through their specific and multi-coloured lens. A highlight of last summer's festival season with stints at EOTR & Green Man, Melin Melyn were praised by The Financial Times, NME, The i, The Line Of Best Fit and more as one......

November 24, 2021June 1, 2023

Martina Topley Bird

About Forever I Wait is finally here: Martina’s 4th studio album features collaborations with Robert Del Naja, Euan Dickinson, Rich Morel, Christoffer Berg, Benjamin Boeldt and Tiadiad. Weasel is the most recent track to be released from the new album, produced by Martina, with additional production from Benjamin Boeldt. In June came the Pure Heart EP, co-produced by Robert Del Naja of Massive Attack, taking the listener on an emotional journey from the insecurity and desire of Pure Heart through vengeance and the predatory taunts of Hunt to rest finally in the cleansing Rain. About MTB: After co-fronting the pioneering......

November 24, 2021June 1, 2023

Hallan

About Hallan are a Portsmouth-based four piece who write and rehearse in an 18th-century fortification built into the side of a hill and surrounded by a forest. It’s within these dramatic surroundings that frontman, Conor Clements channels the frustrations, insecurities and events of early adulthood into his lyrics. Which are littered with observational poetry and messages of reassurance that you’re not alone in this overwhelming world. With the band drawing influences from the people they cross every day – in the supermarket aisles, on your Facebook feed, next door neighbours. Hallan observe and commentate on British life via an Orwell-influenced......

September 25, 2021June 1, 2023

Pitchshifter

About Pitchshifter, agent provocateurs who prophetically foreshadowed the Brexit debacle with their 1999 release ‘Un-United Kingdom”. Spanning a career of over 30 years, the band released ten albums, toured 30 countries, were featured on the covers of Kerrang! and Metal Hammer magazines, recorded Peel Sessions, won Kerrang! awards, had their music featured on video games, on tv shows and in Hollywood films, played main stages at Reading, Ozzfest, Vans Warped Tour and the Big Day out Festivals, were featured in 2000AD Magazine with Judge Dredd and fucked a lot of shit up along the way! Video JTVCb3JpZ2luY29kZV92aWRlb2dhbGxlcnklMjBpZCUzRCUyMjYzJTIyJTVE On Tour 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...

September 25, 2021June 1, 2023

The Boo Radleys

About Having originally formed in 1988, The Boo Radleys developed a reputation for adventurous genre-indistinct songwriting, starting with 1990s Ichabod and I, which emerged on Lancashire’s Action Records and gained such a response amongst discerning music fans that Creation put a deal on the table. Their rapid follow up, Everything's Alright Forever was released to positive reviews in 1992, but it was the following year’s Giant Steps, acclaimed by NME as the album of the year, that secured The Boo Radley’s status as unpredictable sonic explorers with few peers. The Boo Radleys were famously swept into the slipstream of the......

September 25, 2021July 6, 2023

Red Snapper

About Red Snapper, fronted by the drums and upright bass rhythm section of Rich Thair and Ali Friend, have announced a UK tour on the back of their highly anticipated forthcoming album Everybody is Somebody, due for release on 29th October 2021 on Lo Recordings. The album will be Red Snapper's first since the widely praised Hyena in 2014. Red Snapper are best known for their unique sound and passionate live performances where they embrace dark funk, hip-hop, dub, psychedelic surf, afro-jazz and beautiful, fragile soundscapes. The live shows take in places across the UK and start in November and......

June 3, 2021June 1, 2023

Dog Unit

About Ten years ago, Henry met Sam at All Tomorrow’s Parties. They spent the evening talking Yo La Tengo and Godspeed, and at 3am agreed to form a band. That band was not Dog Unit. But still, it was the beginning of Dog Unit: over the next decade, they played together in deadly serious art-rock bands, self-indulgent jam sessions, and high-concept covers acts, learning to finish each other's sonic sentences and developing an intuitive mutual understanding — and then in 2019 formed Dog Unit with the best players from the above outfits: James, a drone-dub bass maestro, who claims his......

April 23, 2021February 26, 2025

Roxanne de Bastion

About With her brand new track Heavy Lifting, rising singer-songwriter Roxanne de Bastion delivers a beautiful moment of catharsis as 2020 draws to a close. A requiem for a difficult year, the Bernard Butler produced track is a timely piece of ethereal pop that showcases the purity of Roxanne’s voice and her keen lyrical perspective. About Heavy Lifting, Roxanne says: “We live in a world where we tend to keep all our hurt, fears and anxieties to ourselves. We share the peaks and not the troughs. Heavy Lifting is about the quiet, dark moments we usually battle with on our......

April 13, 2021June 4, 2025

Cold Specks

About Ladan, the artist formerly known on stage as Cold Specks, will return with new music in 2021. It will be her first new music since 2017's Fools Paradise which was described as her most personal work yet. The artist recognized for her twistedly enthralling lyrics and distinctive soulful voice, has dug deep and returned to her roots. A masterful body of work, it intimately explores her identity as a Somali-Canadian woman. She’s unveiled and allowed herself to stretch her palette thematically. The rawness that’s deemed Cold Specks a dark soul, has revealed itself to be a cathartic after glow,......

April 13, 2021June 1, 2023

The Mission

About In late 1985 Wayne Hussey and Craig Adams left The Sisters Of Mercy and, after enlisting the talents of Simon Hinkler and Mick Brown, formed The Mission and in early 1986 embarked on their first European tour, supporting The Cult. They released 2 singles independently, both reaching No.1 in the UK alternative charts, before signing a worldwide record deal with Phonogram (now Universal) Their first single for the new label, ‘Stay With Me’, went straight into the UK chart at No. 30 followed by their debut album “God’s Own Medicine” at No. 14. Over the next eight years the band released......