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The Nightingales


Robert Lloyd’s career began at the start of punk, as leader of Birmingham’s best punk band, The Prefects, who were wildly ahead of their time in experimentation and age, despite their relative youth. Formed in 1979 and described in John Robb’s book on ‘post punk’ Death To Trad Rock as “The misfits’ misfits” and comprising an ever-fluctuating line up, …

Legendary midland art-rockers The Nightingales are back with a new video for Everything, Everywhere, all of the time’ ahead of the release of their new album Four Against Fate, out on May 22nd via Tiny Global Productions. No-one quite sounds like The Nightingales, and who would want it any other way, as disparate vocal lines …

Post-punk veterans The Nightingales have teased a new track, ‘The Top Shelf’, from their forthcoming eleventh full-length album, ‘Four Against Fate’. The song has a lilting beat that you can imagine lifting your step as you walk down our deserted city streets this spring. Whilst it didn’t exactly set my world on fire, ‘The Top …

It’s unusual for an act to hit its peak after four decades. Yet here it is. BSM brings you the latest video from The Nightingales a band who have climbed to fame and become one of Britain’s most dazzling live bands. Some of The Nightingales’ historic lack of acclaim stems from a density of ideas, which the …