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Live Review: CMAT / Soft Launch – Omeara, London 08.04.2022
The Irish country-pop singer Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, better known as CMAT, released her debut album, ‘If My Wife New I’d Be Dead’, earlier this year and is now on tour in support of the album. Rachel Wonders was there at her London gig to capture the colourful performance of support band Soft Launch and Thompson …
Track: It’s not a delusion-Eliza and the Delusionals release new track with high-anticipated debut album to follow
Eliza and the Delusionals release breezy, guitar-infused track ‘Bed Song’ ahead of new album out in May.
News: Oh My God! It’s the church out on tour in support of ‘Revelations’ EP
Celebrating the release of their ‘Revelations’ EP and recent single ‘Kiss My Apocalypse’, the notoriously uproarious funk’n’roll misfits are hitting stages across the UK in a string of rescheduled dates to support the release of second EP ‘Revelations’ on 15th April. The celestial all-singing, all-dancing act consists of the Hail Marys choir and their band The Missionary Position, …
Meet: Inspirational electro-acoustic saxophonist Jason Sharp ahead of his upcoming UK/Eu solo tour.
You might have missed saxophonist Jason Sharp’s elemental and elevating album ‘The Turning Centre Of The Still World’ released as it was at the backend of the pandemic in August last year. His third release for Montreal’s mighty Constellation label marked an emboldened exploration of his craft, melding his sax playing with electronics using his …
Premiere: Richard Orofino reveals beautiful new single, Bending; hear it here, first
We’ve featured Brooklyn based singer/songwriter Richard Orofino before here on Backseat Mafia, and now are delighted to be able to premiere his new single Bending today. Already a respected artist and sought after producer, he’s following up recent releases such as ‘Fake Me’ and ‘Wanna Say’ with a new track, Bending. As with much of …
Not Forgotten: Gong – Camembert Electrique
Released in 1971 on French label BYG Actuel, Gong’s second album resurfaced on Virgin Records in 1974 at the special price of 59p, by which time the teapot was in full flight with the Radio Gnome trilogy. Even back then, Daevid Allen’s mythology was close to fully formed. The photo on the back sleeve shows …
Live Review: Dua Lipa – First Direct Arena, Leeds 18.04.2022
It’s been a long time coming. 3 postponements due to the pandemic, but finally the Future Nostalgia Tour arrived in Leeds in style. As Dua Lipa said to the adoring audience, she was “so grateful to be sharing the evening” with us all and “sharing the stage with these amazing people”. Beginning a set in …
Live Review: Duda Beat – Opium, Dublin 18,04,2022
They say its always good to try something new and different, with that in mind I noticed that Brazilian Pop/MPB singer Duda Beat (Eduarda Bittencourt Simões) was playing a venue I had not yet ever photographed in! so I said I would kill two birds with one stone.I wasn’t sure what to expect crowd wise, …
News: Darwin Deez announces UK & Irish dates +10 years reissue of debut album
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of his debut album – DARWIN DEEZ – will be embarking on a string of UK + IRISH live dates this Spring. With 10 dates altogether, Deez will be performing the album live and in-full at the following cities: LIVE DATES 202207/05 – Huddersfield, Parish08/05 – Newcastle, UK – The Riverside (14+)09/05 – Glasgow …
News: The Brackets release new track Black Eyes
Here at Backseat Mafia, we’d love to introduce The Brackets as Yorkshire’s finest but with a front man with the strongest Blackburn accent around, we’ll settle for calling them The North’s finest. Black Eyes is a stand alone single from the lads who after a few years of establishing their sound and members, seem to …