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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, 2021December 13, 2023

Ladan

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......

March 16, 2021June 1, 2023

Nerina Pallot

About Nerina Pallot is an English singer, songwriter and producer, who has released six albums. She was nominated for British Female Solo Artist at the 2007 BRIT Awards and nominated for an Ivor Novello Award for "Sophia" in the category of 'Best Song (musically and lyrically)' in the same year. Video JTVCb3JpZ2luY29kZV92aWRlb2dhbGxlcnklMjBpZCUzRCUyMjM3JTIyJTVE On Tour 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...

March 15, 2021June 1, 2023

Spiral Stairs

About For his feelgood third solo album We Wanna Be Hyp-No-Tized, Pavement co-founder Scott Kannberg – best known to the musical world as Spiral Stairs – concocted some of the most fun and accessible music of his storied career by expanding his musical repertoire, in the process embracing some sounds and artists which for some reason or other slipped through the cracks as he took alternative rock to the world during his action-packed youth. “To me We Wanna Be Hyp-No-Tized feels like the records I’ve been listening to and the records I’ve been digging and aspire to sound like,” Spiral offers. “In my early-twenties I......

March 12, 2021June 1, 2023

Gabriella Cilmi

About Gabriella Cilmi enjoyed phenomenal success at an incredibly young age. Still a teen when breakout single ‘Sweet About Me’ conquered the globe, the Australian artist was thrust into the glare of the spotlight, enjoying chart success after chart success. Yet the more she travelled, the further away from her roots she became. “It was a bit of an odd time for me, because it was a big departure from why I got into music in the first place. All of a sudden I’m onstage dancing in a sexy robot costume,” she laughs. “It left me in a place where......

March 12, 2021June 1, 2023

Ned’s Atomic Dustbin

About Ned's Atomic Dustbin are an English rock band formed in Stourbridge, West Midlands, in November 1987. Video JTVCb3JpZ2luY29kZV92aWRlb2dhbGxlcnklMjBpZCUzRCUyMjQyJTIyJTVE On Tour 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...