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News: Circa Waves Announce April UK Headline Tour dates
2017 looks like it’s going to be a big year for Liverpool indie rockers Circa Waves. Their second album ‘Different Creatures’ is out via Virgin EMI on March 10th next year, and they’ve announced a 12 date headline tour to follow in April. Ahead of it all, lead track ‘Wake Up’ was revealed last week …
News: Tegan and Sara announce a string of UK dates in the new year.
Following on from their much lauded album ‘Love you to death’, Tegan And Sara will be hitting the UK for a string of dates in February 2017. Born in a glittering sheen of intelligent pop music, Tegan and Sara’s recent 8th album ‘Love you to death’, saw the group once again working with producer Greg …
News: Travis cover Del Amitri cracker for Christmas charity single
Travis plan to make something happen for a good cause with their festive cover of Del Amitri hit ‘Nothing Ever Happens’. The single (available for pre-order download on iTunes today) is a cover of one of Del Amitri’s best-known songs wrapped up in Fran Healy’s distinctive, warm vocals and tied together with sparkling sleigh bells ringing. …
Track: Bruising – Rest In Peace Kurt Donald Cobain (1967-1994) plus UK tour dates
Leeds quartet Bruising have just shared a new track online, ‘Rest In Peace Kurt Donald Cobain (1967-1994)’ which acts as the b-side to their forthcoming single ‘I Don’t Mind’ – out on December 2nd via Beech Coma. Although many artists state their love for the sadly missed Cobain, Bruising take things one step further, although …
See: Stornoway reveal new video for Night Drive / Announce farewell tour
After more than ten years of playing heartfelt, affecting indie/folk, Oxford quartet Stornoway are bowing out with an 11 date farewell tour, due to take place next February/March, beginning at the Sage in Gateshead on February 27th and ending with a hometown show at Oxford’s New Theatre on March 12th. It follows the success of …
News: Tom Chaplin heads out on 14 date UK & Ireland May tour
If you’ve checked out his new album, ‘The Wave’, and let’s face it, after debuting at number three in the UK Album Chart last Friday plenty of people have, pop/indie troubadour Tom Chaplin has announced a 14 date UK & Ireland tour, Starting at Cardiff, St David’s Hall on Saturday May 6th, and including a …
News: Paolo Nutini announces second Hogmanay show
Paolo Nutini is giving an early festive gift to fans that missed out on tickets to his Hogmanay show, by announcing he will play a ‘Night Afore Concert’ on Friday 30 December. Organisers today announced that, due to overwhelming demand, Nutini will take to the stage in West Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh the night …
Tour news: Four Authors announce UK tour
2016 begins a new chapter for Barnsley band Four Authors, with their latest single ‘Fire, Fire’ being chosen by BBC Introducing Sheffield for an exclusive live radio session and a headline UK tour keeping them busy until Christmas. If you haven’t yet been introduced, Four Authors are “pop/rock at its finest”, bringing an explosive energy …
News: The Spook School announce tour dates with PWR BTTM
With the news that they’re heading out on a European tour with PWR BTTM in December, The Spook School share a video that’s all about getting home. The Edinburgh quartet – of Anna Cory (bass and vocals), Adam Todd (guitar and vocals), Nye Todd (guitar and vocals) and Niall McCamley (drums) – have followed up …
New Music: Kevin shields remixes The Undertones: Get over You, plus reissue news
Dublin punks The Undertones were there right at the start of things, so it’s perhaps fitting that as this year marks the 40th anniversary of both the band and punk rock itself, Union Square music has announced that they are to remaster and reissue on vinyl the bands first two albums – 1979’s self titled …