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Track: The Backseat Lovers Announce ‘Waiting To Spill’, The Follow Up To Their Cult Classic Debut With First Major Label Single Release ‘Growing/Dying’
Barely taking a breath since returning home from their latest run of sold-out UK and Ireland live dates, including blowing away a near-two thousand-strong audience at Electric Brixton, London in May, Utah’s The Backseat Lovers make their major label debut to present their first new music in almost two years by releasing Growing/Dying. Accompanied by …
News: Line Up Completed For Sea Power’s 2022 Lake District Festival – Krankenhaus
Sea Power are delighted to announce the final bill for their magical Krankenhaus micro-festival, taking place on the August Bank Holiday 2022, at Muncaster Castle, where rock music meets the highest rocks in England – towering sounds by the peak of Scafell Pike – on the beautiful western edge of the English Lake District. Sea Power, the Mercury Prize-nominated …
News: Tramlines Festival 2022 Preview
Tramlines 2022 the biggest festival event in Sheffield and the highlight of the local music calendar. A local lad myself I was born and raised in Hillsborough and spent a lot of my youth in Hillsborough Park so it holds a special place in my heart. The closest we ever got to this size event …
News: Crash Test Dummies Embark On UK Tour
Crash Test Dummies will be embarking on a UK tour this June to celebrate 30 years of their debut album ‘The Ghosts That Haunt Me’. It’s been 30 years since the Crash Test Dummies recorded their debut album, ‘The Ghosts That Haunt Me’. Their first album garnered them their first big hit, “Superman’s Song”, and …
News: Live At Leeds: In The Park Announces Full Stage Splits For Festival Debut
OVER 30 ESSENTIAL NAMES SPREAD ACROSS 5 STAGES FOR THE PERFECT ALL-DAY SUMMER PARTY FEATURING: BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB / THE VACCINES / EASY LIFE / ARLO PARKS / SEA GIRLS / HOLLY HUMBERSTONE / SPORTS TEAM / THE SNUTS / HONNE / CONFIDENCE MAN / ALFIE TEMPLEMAN / THE PIGEON DETECTIVES / DREAM WIFE / …
News: Nothing But Noise Festival Line Up – 21st May
In an association probably made in heaven, the 360 CLUB in Leeds have teamed up with the explosive FUDGE. to create NOTHING BUT NOISE, their first joint curated one-day festival showcasing some of the most exciting and innovative – and often noisiest – bands currently coming out of their home city, which will take place …
News: Strange Waves V At The O2 Ritz, Manchester 01.04.2022
South London’s Dry Cleaning are set to headline Strange Waves V at the O2 Ritz, Manchester. Promoters Strange Days and Now Wave have joined forces to offer an exclusive event being held at The O2 Ritz over two stages. Joining Dry Cleaning will be Sunflower Bean, W. H. Lung, The Lounge Society, Audiobooks, Honeyglaze, Melts and Prima Queen. The …
Track: Maximo Park release new single, Great Art, and announce Sïngular UK tour this Autumn
One of our perennial favourites here at Backseat Mafia, Maximo Park, have announced a new tour – Sïngular, taking place this Autumn, which will see the band play their entire singles collection, from ‘Apply Some Pressure’ and ‘Going Missing’ from their breakthrough debut album A Certain Trigger, to ‘All Of Me’ from their latest album Nature Always …
News: Stockton Calling’s Full Line-Up Announced
Stockton Calling, one of Teesside’s best-loved multi-venue music festivals, makes a long- awaited return to the heart of Stockton on Saturday 16 April 2022. After an enforced break since the last event in 2019, venues across the town centre will once again host stellar headliners and some of the most exciting national emerging artists, alongside …
News: Dream Wife embarking on UK tour
London-based trio Dream Wife – vocalist Rakel Mjöll, guitarist Alice Go, bassist Bella Podpadec – will be hitting the UK live circuit again this Spring. The tour follows the release of the band’s explosive second album So When You Gonna…, which earned both a monumental #18 UK Album Chart debut and a #1 placing in the Official Record Store Chart of Independent Retailers. The record, which was the only album in the …