The Fat Angel Sings

Electronica, alt-rock and dance music festival held across various Brighton venues.

The 2021 festival will feature This Is The Kit, Bill Ryder-Jones, Baxter Dury, Billy Nomates, Rozi Plain, Working Men’s Club, Pillow Queens, Sink Ya Teeth, Yard Act, Willy Mason, Anna Meredith, Beak>, Big Joanie, Ross From Friends, Cheap Teeth, Courting, Deadletter, Ak Patterson, Clara Mann, Holiday Ghosts, Holly Macve, Jacko Hooper, Molly Payton, Rosehip Teahouse, Someone, White Flowers, Feet, Hotel Lux, Bassie Gracie, Bessi, Daniel God Damn Byrom, Folly Group, Genn, Low Hummer, Memes, Peeping Drexels, Tinyumbrellas, Venue Grrrls, Famous, Gustaf, John, Keg, Laundromat, Legss, Mush, Moa Moa, Odd Morris, Porij, Scrounge, Social Haul, Sprints, The Goa Express, The Jackdaw, Tv Priest, Wife Swap Usa, Wunderhorse, Wych Elm, Manami (DJ), Giulia Tess (DJ), Cmat, Pva, Scalping, Wu-Lu, Albertine Sarges, Deathcrash, Deep Tan, Delmer Darion, Ditz, Fears, Hattie Cooke, Home Counties, Kai Kwasi, Lunch Money Life, Lime Garden, Lynks, Mandrake Handshake, Nuha Ruby Ra, Regressive Left, Smoothboi Ezra, The Umlauts, Tiberius B, Manami (DJ) and Giulia Tess (DJ). and more…

“As far as I’m concerned, between Bright Eyes and his solo records, Conor Oberst is one of the greatest songwriters that has played the game. I remember hearing Fevers and Mirrors when I was 16 and feeling my sense of song permanently rewired. So it was a big deal for me when we decided to go on tour with Conor as the opening act as well as his band. To celebrate our worlds coming together we decided to cover one of each other’s tunes and release it as a limited 7 inch vinyl. We tried our best to make Easy/Lucky/Free sound like a Dawes song and Conor did the same thing to Million Dollar Bill.

In the decade since Dawes emerged from Southern California, the band, consisting of guitarist/singer Taylor Goldsmith, drummer Griffin Goldsmith, bassist Wylie Gelber, and keyboardist Lee Pardini, has evolved and electrified and grown into a forward-thinking band for the 21st century. 

Happy to bring these recordings back to life. ” – Taylor Goldsmith

released September 17th, 2021

While the UK Parliament is currently, right at this moment, drafting an online safety bill with the premise that Facebook is “unquestionably making hate worse,” the only slightly better platform Twitter is responsible for merging the talents of an Austin-based band with their shoegaze idol. When the double couple quartet Blushing tweeted out to Miki Berenyi of Lush/Piroshka in 2018, after covering “Out of Control” for a Lush covers compilation, they didn’t expect Berenyi to slide into their DMs and agree to work with them. Now, three years later, the collaboration made in dream pop heaven has arrived.

Berenyi’s celestial croons mingle effortlessly with Michelle Soto and Christina Carmona’s wispy lilts that beckon us to “stick around and find out” on “Blame,” the lead single off Blushing’s forthcoming follow-up to their 2019 self-titled debut. With a rush of woozy reverberating guitar and cascading drum crashes that would make Emma Anderson and the late Chris Acland respectively proud, Noe Carmona and Jacob Soto fill out the Lush-like single with aplomb.

Titled “Possessions“, the pandemic-produced album is due out in February 2022 via Brooklyn-based label Kanine Records and features production from Ringo Deathstarr frontman and fellow Austinite Elliott Frazier. But if you thought we were done dropping names of shoegaze idols involved in the making of the record, then you thought wrong, because none other than Mark Gardener of the seminal shoegaze outfit Ride put the finishing touches on the record with his mastering magic.

From the upcoming album “Possessions” out February 18th 2022 on Kanine Records

releases February 18, 2022

Blushing under exclusive licensing to Kanine Records

A couple weeks after the release of their debut self-titled album, Led Zeppelin appeared as the opening act for Iron Butterfly, then one of the world’s biggest bands, at Bill Graham’s Fillmore East. But it was Zeppelin who blew away the audience. “In other words, through the Zeppelin album is very, very good, the group in person is even better and the excitement they generate hasn’t been felt in the Fillmore since the last appearance of Big Brother & the Holding Company,” read one review of the performance. “A subtle hint of the group’s quickly growing status can be found in the fact that while their album had only been out a week and a half, fully half the audience was familiar with it. Need we say more?”

TRAIN KEPT A ROLLIN’ I CAN’T QUIT YOU thank you very much, indeed. good evening, uh, from, Led Zeppelin. That was, uh, that was a thing, uh, from Otis Rush called “I Can’t Quit You Babe”. we’re gonna carry on with, uh, a thing off the new Led Zeppelin album. This is called “Dazed And Confused” thank you very much. thank you. thank you very much. well, right now we’d like to feature, uh, John Bonham on drums. this is John Bonham, “Pat’s Delight” how ’bout that? John Bonham. John Bonham. ladies and gentlemen, we, we’d like to say goodnight and thanks very much for having us. I’d like to introduce Led Zeppelin To You. on bass and Hammond organ, when it’s available, John Paul Jones. on drums, John Bonham. lead guitar, Jimmy Page. and myself, Robert Plant

HOW MANY MORE TIMES thank you very much goodnight, goodnight from Led Zeppelin, Thank you YOU SHOOK ME Thank you very much for everything you do, We’ll see you again one day. good night from Led Zeppelin.

“Porter’s Popular Preachers (replacement act for The Move) opened the night, then Led Zeppelin took the stage prior to the headliners Iron Butterfly. The Move was originally billed as the opening act, but dropped out. Iron Butterfly cancelled their second show and Edwin Hawkins Singers replaced them. Psychedelic imagenary was provided by the Joshua Light Show.”

“This was possibly great and very intense show. Having almost complete recordings for their second date at Fillmore we can expect that the band performed their usual set and crashed the audience what caused of an applause for the Zeppelin instead of Iron Butterfly, whose were billed as headliners. Robert’s voice in all of its high pitched, amazing 1969 glory and the band playing as well as ever. “Dazed And Confused” was played instead of “How many More Times” this time and the show is very tight and powerful throughout. Jimmy is on fire!”

Setlist: 01 – Train Kept A Rollin’ [0:00] 02 – I Can’t Quit You [3:27] 03 – Dazed And Confused [9:28] 04 – Pat’s Delight [19:22] 05 – How Many More Times (incl The Hunter) [27:30] 06 – You Shook Me [39:00]

There was about 5-6 encores of covers that are not included here. The audience did not want to let them go and the applause and foot stomping was deafening. Plant apologized that they had no more songs to play after the last encore.

Eric Clapton has announced a new live album, recorded during lockdown, “The Lady in the Balcony: Lockdown Sessions“. The collection of 17 songs include mostly acoustic renditions of such classics as “Layla” and “Bell Bottom Blues,” performed with his long time bandmates Nathan East (bass and vocals), Steve Gadd (drums) and Chris Stainton (keyboards).

The recording was overseen by Clapton’s longtime Grammy-winning producer Russ Titelman and was recorded live at Cowdray House in West Sussex, England. The performance features Clapton standards and an assortment of other numbers encompassing blues, country and rarified originals.

In February 2021 Eric Clapton’s live shows at The Royal Albert Hall were cancelled due to the global pandemic. Determined to play, he brought his band together in the English countryside. In the absence of a live audience, he decided to record the performances.

The title arrives on November 12th, 2021, via Mercury Studios on multiple formats. Watch the official trailer and their performance of several favourites, including “Black Magic Woman” and “After Midnight,” below.

The Lady in the Balcony: Lockdown Sessions also offers versions of songs that had a profound effect on his career and those of his contemporaries including the Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac tracks “Black Magic Woman” and “Man of the World.”

He reconvened with his band to the English countryside and staged a concert in the presence of only the participants themselves while letting the cameras roll. The mostly acoustic set was envisioned to be like an Eric Clapton Unplugged II, but not quite, as three songs are played with electric guitars.

Performing acoustic renditions of Clapton standards and an assortment of other numbers encompassing blues, country and rarified originals. Recorded live at Cowdray House in West Sussex, England, the performance finds Clapton and company revisiting such timeless classics as “After Midnight,” “Layla,” “Bell Bottom Blues,” “Tears in Heaven,” “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out” and “Key to the Highway.” In addition to revisiting some of Eric’s best-loved selections from his own extensive repertoire, Clapton and crew also offer their own versions of songs that had a profound effect on his career and those of his contemporaries including the Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac tracks “Black Magic Woman” and “Man of the World.” 

The project was initiated as the result of the forced cancellation of Eric’s concerts scheduled for May 2021 Looking for a viable alternative and hoping to keep his options open, he reconvened with his band to the English countryside and staged a concert in the presence of only the participants themselves while letting the cameras roll. (Eric’s wife, Melia, the sole outside observer inspired the Sessions title.) The mostly acoustic set was envisioned to be like an “Eric Clapton Unplugged II,” but not quite, as three songs are played with electric guitars. The result became far more than simply a sequence of greatest hits. Rather, it’s one of the most intimate and authentic performances of his entire career, an offering flush with real insight into the make-up of his indelible catalogue. Eric Clapton “The Lady in the Balcony: Lockdown Sessions”

Eric Clapton returns with a remarkable new release, “The Lady In The Balcony: Lockdown Sessions” on November 12th. Available via Mercury Studios 

Bruce Springsteen appeared on last night’s episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, where he performed an acoustic rendition of ‘The River’. Springsteen also sat down for an interview with Colbert, talking about his friendship with Barack Obama as well as the “No Nukes” concert film.

Set for release on November 23rd, The Legendary 1979 “No Nukes Concerts” captures Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band’s benefit shows at Madison Square Garden filmed for the 1980 documentary “No Nukes“. The film has been newly edited from the original footage and features appearances by Jackson Browne, Tom Petty, and Rosemary Butler.

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and author of the new book, “Renegades: Born in the USA,” Bruce Springsteen, wraps his full-episode Late Show takeover with this solo performance of his song, “The River.”

Watch Bruce Springsteen Perform ‘The River’ on ‘Colbert’ –

RENEGADES: Born in the USA is a collection of candid, intimate, and entertaining conversations between Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, and legendary musician Bruce Springsteen. The book, published in partnership with Higher Ground, is scheduled for global publication on 26th October 2021. 

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is the premier late night talk show on CBS, airing at 11:35pm EST, streaming online via Paramount+, and delivered to the International Space Station on a USB drive taped to a weather balloon. Every night, viewers can expect: Comedy, humour, funny moments, witty interviews, celebrities, famous people, movie stars, bits, humorous celebrities doing bits, funny celebs, big group photos of every star from Hollywood, even the reclusive ones, plus also jokes.