The shops may think that Christmas starts in mid October, but we all know that in reality you should only start preparing on 1st December with that first choccy in the advent calendar.
So as a way of starting off the musical advent (and I’m in no way religious, but enjoy a reason for a gluttonous festival as much as the next man), we have a little Christmas/winter indie mixtape from the kind folk over at XO Publicity. A little change from the Slade/Wham/East 17 that you”re all hearing elsewhere.
We’ve always …
The lovely boys from Mumford & Sons are launching their biggest UK tour yet next spring, with a selection of tour dates at much bigger venues than before…
The dates are as follows:
3rd March – Glasgow ABC
4th March – Manchester Academy 2
6th March – Wolverhampton Wulfrun
7th March – Newcastle University
9th March – Liverpool Academy
10th March – Cambridge Junction
12th March – Brighton Corn Exchange
13th March – London Shepherd’s Bush Empire
16th March – Edinburgh Queen’s Hall
18th March – Dublin The Academy
20th March – Belfast Spring & Airbrake
If you didn’t catch them last time …
Othello Woolf is starting to garner a good bit of attention at the moment, and for damn good reason, as demonstrated in his debut single “Stand”, which will be released by the consistently impressive Young & Lost girls on January 18th on oh so pretty white vinyl. It’s pop perfection with a wistful lover’s soul. An LCD Soundsystem-influenced crooner making waves that are uplifting, understated, and undeniably British.
We might not have the original “Stand” MP3 to share with you right now (but you cans till find it over at Transparent, …
Alan Pownall has been flying around the edges of my radar since I first read about him over at The Daily Growl, and I was lucky enough to get a few questions with the rising songsmith last week. He has risen through the ranks along with Mumford & Sons, Jay Jay Pistolet and others that have been part of the resurgence of folk we’ve been covering in and around our nations capital over the last 18 months – but folk doesn’t quite cover all of his repertoire. Colourful Day may …
We Were Promised Jetpacks made what has become probably my favourite record of 2009 in “These Four Walls” (yes I know I should do a full review), and to finish the year they are releasing a double A-side “It’s Thunder and It’s Lightning”/ “Ships With Holes Will Sink” which are two of my favourites off a consistently fantastic album.
In a year that has been dominated by the resurgence of folk and synth-pop, it is always good to have such undeniably talented indie rockers reminding us of quite how good they …
What year it has been for Jamie T. Maybe the prolific song releasing is what has caused the poor fella to come down with a spot of laryngitis, but that doesn’t mean that he hasn’t produced one of my top three albums of the year and a handful of EPs to boot – the latest being The Man’s Machine that dropped today. That is twenty tunes in twelve months (plus the odd freebie) – impressive stuff, especially as there is very little filler in there.
The Man’s Machine was one of …
