Hywel Davies – Eponymous New Album Out January 14th on ASC Records http://www.primafacie.ascrecords.com/ http://www.hyweldavies.co.uk/ ‘Nothing in the classical canon quite prepares you for Hywel Davies… the album [Natural Language] contained an invigorating collage of material, both deliberately arranged and aleatoric.’ – Louise Gray, The Wire Hywel Davies, a composer, sonic artist and installation artist, reveals…
NILS BECH – LOOK INSIDE out January 14th on Fysisk Format “ethereal, hauntingly beautiful” Dazed Digital recently featured in TIME Magazine and NY Times Meet the Norwegian musician and performing artist Nils Bech – an unusual and acutely talented gentleman who explores the tensions between art and dance, contemporary music and pop music. His way…
Shortly after the end of the celebrated “Heidenfest 2012” tour together with their label mates of WINTERSUN, restless Finnish folk metal pioneers KORPIKLAANI will soon be on the road again! In January and February of 2013, the band will embark on an extensive headliner tour in order to bring both their classics as well as…
Justin Sullivan, lead singer of the English band NEW MODEL ARMY, will be guest vocalist on the track ’The Windswept Mercy’ which will appear on the new SOILWORK double album, ’The Living Infinite’. Formed in 1980 in Bradford, England, New Model Army still have a very loyal fan-base and SOILWORK frontman Björn ’Speed’ Strid counts…
Girl Band are a four piece noise-rock band from Dublin, Ireland. There are no girls in the band. They formed in late 2011 and “France 98” is their second release with Any Other City Records. Musically somewhere between Bleach-era Nirvana, mclusky, Jesus Lizard and even that incendiary first Idlewild demo in their teens, long before…
To follow their (9/10 NME rated) debut album ‘Must We Find A Winner’ Klak Tik (comprised of Søren Bonke, Matthew Mitchinson & Jonathan Beyer), escaped the trappings of East London’s alternative coffee shops and vintage chic for a simple purer existence in the Welsh village of Penrhos. For a month Klak Tik drew inspiration from…
RICHARD THOMPSON – ELECTRIC BRAND NEW ALBUM ARRIVES FEBRUARY 11th 2013 FULL UK TOUR IN FEBRUARY 2013 Declared by Rolling Stone as one of the Top 20 Guitarists Of All Time and considered one of the UK’s most outstanding songwriters, musician Richard Thompson returns with a brand new, guitar driven record titled ELECTRIC for Proper…
CHARLIE WINSTON – New Album ‘Running Still’ Out 28 January 2013 on Real World Records UK press reaction to Charlie’s 2009 album, ‘Hobo’ “immaculately crafted” – Q ”If Chris Martin ditched Coldplay and took to the road with a more rootsy outfit, he might come up with something like Hobo” – Daily Express “The Chaplin…
JAMES will be releasing their first ever box set on December 10th, 2012. Entitled The Gathering Sound, the box set covers the band’s career to date and includes all eleven studio albums on a unique j-shaped USB stick. This strictly limited edition, deluxe 12”x12” box set contains: – the 4GB USB stick (featuring all eleven…
I briefly spoke to Merlin and Chrigel from Eluveitie shortly before they played the HMV Forum in London as part of their tour with Sabaton, and asked them about their albums and touring.. Festivalphoto: Your new album, Helvetios was released in February. How has it been going down with the fans? Chrigel: It’s going down…
First up tonight were The Howling. They were on stage pretty soon after the doors opened thanks to the venue having an early curfew so they could run a club night after the gig. As a result the place was pretty deserted when they hit the stage, but filled up steadily during their set so…
Tonight’s gig had four bands, but sadly they decided on a stupid idea of opening the doors at 6pm on a weeknight, so too early for most people to get home from work, change and come to a gig, so the first band apparently played to a pretty small crowd. Like most people, I missed…