Late last Sunday afternoon at Secret Garden Party, I was lucky enough to be among the many sitting in The Living Room tent when wonderful singer-songwriter Ethan Ash graced its stage. The charismatic and impressive young man has an unexpectedly big voice, and won the audience over from the offset, passing Jelly Babies around the crowd in one of the most down to earth audience-artist exchanges I’ve had the pleasure of witnessing.
Ethan travelled through a fantastic set of quirky and catchy acoustic numbers that are talent-filled, humble and interesting. Highlights …
Alternative rockers Goo Goo Dolls, famous for their City of Angels tune ‘Iris’ back in the nineties, are returning with their ninth studio album ‘Something for the Rest of Us’ on August 31st. Prior to this, they release phenomenally good new single ‘Home’ on August 23rd, video below.
The boys will also be embarking on a UK tour in November, with dates as follows:
7 Nov 2010 - Academy, Glasgow
8 Nov 2010 - Academy, Newcastle
9 Nov 2010 - Academy, Leeds
11 Nov 2010 - Academy, Birmingham
12 Nov 2010 – University, Manchester
13 Nov 2010 - Brixton Academy, London
15 Nov …
Rock ‘n’ roll chick Lissie is positively everywhere at the moment, and I’m truly loving it. The angelic-looking, cigarette-smoking American is extremely talented, and since signing to Columbia Records and releasing her critically acclaimed debut album ‘Catching A Tiger’, she’d been receiving loads of recognition for it.
Already fast becoming a live favourite, Lissie has recently announced full details of her first full headline tour this autumn, and as a series of dates as special guests to The Script in September.
Lissie October headline dates are as follows:
Oct 26th: Glasgow Oran Mor
Oct …
I am really enjoying the resurgence of rough under-production values that is popping up all over the place in response the pop dullness that fills the airwaves, and Lil Daggers (MySpace) have that rough garage home recording sound down.
I first featured them on our Lost Mixtape vol.2 a couple of months ago, but after hearing a demo few tracks they are putting together for a full length, I thought now would be a good time to share a few more growling, Doors-esque rock and roll from their previous couple of vinyl …
Yuck landed in my inbox associated with Modest Mouse who they’ll be supporting at The Troxy in London on September 8th. They’ll also be doing dates with the band in Newcastle and Liverpool – you’ll find a full list of their upcoming tour dates at the bottom of this post.
Their beautiful alt-rock sounds are reminiscient of a lot of great American alt-rock bands such as Goo Goo Dolls and Modest Mouse themselves, and the fantastic boy-girl vocals remind me of The Joy Formidable in places. Really gorgeous stuff. Everything about …
Folk legend Diane Cluck will be heading this way in September with an exciting run of UK tour dates for us to feast on. In support are the wonderful Anders Griffin and Wig Smith (the latter being one half of The Hand, the other half being TBW favourite Rachael Dadd).
The tour dates are as below, and we’ll be catching up with Diane at The Birdcage in Norwich:
09.09 St Bonaventure’s, Bristol
10.09 End of the Road Festival, Dorset
11.09 Westhill Hall, Brighton
12.09 The Tabernacle, London
14.09 The Musician, Leicester
15.09 …
