Posts Tagged ‘Birmingham’
MOSELEY FOLK FESTIVAL – Moseley Park Birmingham 1st-3rd September 2017
Posted: April 4, 2017 in FESTIVALS, MUSICTags: Birmingham, Moseley Folk Festival, Moseley Park
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SUPERFOOD – ” Double Dutch “
Posted: March 8, 2017 in MUSICTags: Birmingham, Dirty Hit Records, Superfood
A new track from Superfood , where have you been…? it had been three long years since we got our last serving of Superfood
After announcing their signing to Dirty Hit via Superfood have returned with new single ‘Dirty Dutch’.
For Superfood the long layoff between records seems to have been an eye-opening time, allowing them space to experiment and craft what is no doubt an intriguing progression in their sound. The slacker vibes are still evident, but on their first taster of album two, Don Ganderton and Ryan Malcolm serve up an unexpectedly synth-heavy and playful electro-banger.
The track is the first to be taken from the band’s as-yet-unnanounced follow-up to 2014 debut LP ‘Don’t Say That’, and is an instantly addictive, dreamy cut, with a heavy use of sampling.
Superfood headline the inaugral Dirty Hit tour across March and April.
Superfood will play Live at Leeds (29th April)
The 3-piece make 3 minute pop garage rock songs with aplomb (check out debut single ‘Johnny’ too). The Cosmics are young, fresh and exciting and will only get better. Good times ahead for this Birmingham band. After last year’s scuzzy punk debut single ‘Johnny’ saw the three – Erin Curran (vocals, bass) and her identical twin brother cousins Conor (guitar) and Danny (drums) Boyle compared to the likes of Britpop legends Elastica as well as The Undertones and Blondie, The Cosmics are firmly carving out their own 21st century niche with ‘Waste Of Time’: a feisty, raw, and undoubtedly catchy, break-up song, produced and mixed by Isaac Cartwright.
The new single from The Cosmics, is available soon
Band Members
Erin Grace
Conor Boyle
Danny Boyle
Conor Boyle
Danny Boyle
SUPERSONIC FESTIVAL Birmingham 16th-18th June 2017
Posted: February 8, 2017 in MUSICTags: Birmingham, Supersonic Festival
Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival occupies an exalted position at the vanguard of the festival circuit. And rightly so. Since its inception over ten years ago, it has maintained a staggeringly focused and intelligent curatorial policy, transcending the music and art worlds to present a programme teeming with invention, audience participation and a certain amount of unpredictability.
Supersonic Festival is returning in 2017 on the weekend of June 16th-18th, back in a big way! We might have taken a year off in 2016, but behind the scenes Capsule have been keeping busy, as the subsequent line up announcements will soon prove…
Nowhere else will you find a festival experience quite like Supersonic’s – since 2003, we have been hosting superior weekends for the adventurous listener, taking care to present only the most artistically relevant and irreverent acts from the UK and across the globe, while simulatenously making sure to fill every moment with the opportunities to let loose and party, or sit down at engaging talks, discussions and workshops, or take in exclusive screenings and exhibitions. The clip below is from 2015.
Garage punk trio from Birmingham, UK.
Debut single ‘Johnny’ The scuzzy three-piece, led by the crystalline vocals of tousled bassist Erin Curran, blend Stiff Records-era garage rock with a reverb-drenched modern bent. ‘Johnny’ doesn’t even hit the two-minute mark, but leaves a lasting imprint with its jagged, jiggery chorus.
Members
Erin Grace
Conor Boyle
Danny Boyle
Conor Boyle
Danny Boyle
Birmingham outfit Sugarthief back-up to last single ‘Joy Affair’, the quartet have released
a visual partner for the track. Filmed in Stoke by Sion Campbell, the director says of the work: “My understanding is that it’s all about going through the good, the bad, the ugly to get where you want to be. So I came up with the concept of having two doors of ‘opportunity’, which would reflect the choices all of us make in our lives. We can continue to make the same choices again and again, or we can take the risk for what we truly want and believe in. Finding our happiness in the choices we make.”
SUPERSONIC FESTIVAL – Birmingham 16th-18th June 2017
Posted: December 2, 2016 in FESTIVALS, MUSICTags: Birmingham, Supersonic Festival
Supersonic Festival is returning in 2017 on the weekend of June 16th-18th, back in a big way! They might have taken a year off in 2016, but behind the scenes Capsule have been keeping busy, as the subsequent announcements will soon prove…
Nowhere else will you find a festival experience quite like Supersonic’s – since 2003, they have been hosting superior weekends for the adventurous listener, taking care to present only the most artistically relevant and irreverent acts from the UK and across the globe, while simulatenously making sure to fill every moment with the opportunities to let loose and party, or sit down at engaging talks, discussions and workshops, or take in exclusive screenings and exhibitions. Working closely with the local community and priding itself on being all ages (the ‘kids gigs’ notorious fun for music loving families), the reputation of Supersonic is one hard earned and well deserved – long may it continue to light up the hearts, minds and calendars of those who attend.
Stay tuned for big announcements very soon
“Supersonic is a place to be educated and surprised: new, experimental and intellectually nourishing.” – WIRE
“Having been a journalist for 15 years I’ve had cause to work at approaching 100 festivals all over the world and in my opinion Supersonic has the consistently best quality line-ups and is the most engaging and stimulating to fans of underground music. Certainly no other festival introduces me to more new and exciting music than this one.”
St. PAUL and the BROKEN BONES – ” Flow With It (You Got Me Feeling Like) “
Posted: December 1, 2016 in MUSICTags: Alabama, Birmingham, Paul Janeway, Sea Of Noise, St. Paul & The Broken Bones
St. Paul & The Broken Bones roared onto the soul-revival scene in 2014 on the strength of frontman Paul Janeway, whose earth-shaking vocals are matched only by his irrepressible energy as a performer. After a whirlwind couple years since the band’s debut, “Half The City” a time that included a few dates as The Rolling Stones’ opening act — the Birmingham, Alabama., outfit has shored up its sound and turned to weighty lyrical themes for its second full-length record, “Sea Of Noise”.
“Flow With It (You Got Me Feeling Like)” is the second single from “Sea Of Noise”, and it’s a fine example of the band’s maturation. Having grown to an eight-piece, the group fuels its fire with an expanded horn section and percussion that evokes the Motown sound. (Elsewhere on Sea Of Noise, its members call on the string charts of veteran Memphis arranger Lester Snell — not to mention the skyscraping voices of the Tennessee Mass Choir, recorded in Studio A at what was once Stax Records.)
More elaborate orchestration aside, the gritty burr of the Southern soul that informs St. Paul & The Broken Bones’ music is undeniable. In “Flow With It,” that’s most evident in the heavily grooving breakdown after the second chorus. Janeway lets the band bubble up and simmer over as he riffs on the curiously ambiguous line, “I wanna feel.” It’s hard not to feel something — release, maybe, or a cleansing of sorts — when everything comes to a heart-stopping pause, then whooshes back in at a rapid boil a beat later.
On one level, “Flow With It” seems to deal with a bedroom argument and the strain felt within an intimate relationship that’s fraying at the seams. But considered in light of contentious times, politically and socially, the song takes on another layer of meaning. “We ain’t gotta fight,” Janeway pleads, sounding like he could be addressing a partner or a society in need of the salve that soul music offers. “Let’s just flow with it.”
VERBENA – ” Shaped Like A Gun “
Posted: October 25, 2016 in MUSICTags: A.A Bondy., Alabama, Birmingham, Daniel Duquette Johnston, Verbena
Verbena was a rock band from Birmingham, Alabama, founded in the early 1990s by Scott Bondy, and Daniel Duquette Johnston who would become mainstays for the entirety of the band’s career, despite undergoing several line-up changes. They released three albums, Bondy and Nuby each started their own respective solo projects. Bondy probaly the most succesful released his solo debut, American Hearts under the name A.A Bondy , Bondy also released his several solo efforts, Duquette Johnson toured as Cutgrass for years and played bass on tour with a reunted Blake Babies. Duquette Johnson and the Rebel Kings have released several albums
SWAMPMEAT FAMILY BAND – ” Brand New Cadillac “
Posted: September 23, 2016 in MUSICTags: Birmingham, Gin and Tonic, Swampmeat
Punk Slime Recordings have announced the official debut album from Birmingham’s wonderfully named Swampmeat.
Gin & Tonic will be released on November 25th and is a collection of countrified rock and roll, that recalls bands like Creedence, The Clash and the man in black, confidently straddling the edge between country, punk and rock and roll.
Lead single Brand New Cadillac (not a cover!) serves as a perfect introduction to the world of Swampmeat for the uninitiated. “Harkening back to classic rock’n’roll, amped up with energy, distortion, and an echoing harmonica solo, Swampmeat are setting their own rules – and we’ll be damned if it doesn’t already sound like a mighty fine way to be.”
band members , Danny C, T-Bird, Tommy ‘Castro’ Hughes & Rich ‘The Marshall’ March
The Fat Angel Sings 