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The BIG MOON – ” The Road “

Posted: September 18, 2015 in MUSIC, NOTTINGHAM CITY VENUES
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Ever get that feeling at a party like there’s walls between you and the other people in the room? London-based four-piece The Big Moon nail that sense of bored, anxious detachment with deadpan brilliance in their video for “The Road”: a track that gives you a withering stare as it asks over scrappy guitar chords,

tell me why you came / ’cause I don’t know why.

Hit play above to join Juliette Jackson, Soph Nathan, Celia Archer, and Fern Ford as they pop balloons, wrap up in duvets, smash various foods to pieces, and generally throw the weirdest party we’re desperate to get an invite to.

“We loved making this video. It was super DIY and on a really low budget,” The Big Moon. “We went to the local hardware store and got a load of MDF and some celtic green paint, then spent a week designing and building all these little booths—sawing, screwing, drilling, painting, swearing, drinking, dribbling, etc. It involved a lot of splinters, a lot of birthday cake, and a lot of love, and thank goodness for our dear, creative, talented, and generous friends Archie Sinclair and John Fitzpatrick, without whom we would have turned to jelly.

“The Road” is available on iTunes now; Handsome Dad Records will also release it as a 7″ Vinyl on October 30th. Limited to 300 Copies on Handome Dad Records. This all girl four piece The Big Moon return with their second single and it shows a different side to the instant pop nugget of ‘Sucker’. ‘The Road’ is brooding and sensual track.

The DRINK – ” No Memory “

Posted: September 14, 2015 in MUSIC
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For the first time in Rough Trade’s recent history, the independent record store stocked an unsigned band’s release. That band was London-based trio The Drink, whose handmade EP’s convinced Rough Trade to give them a chance. But, with their debut Company soon to be released, are they actually any good?

The Drink immediately grab you. we featured the lead single and album opener “Microsleep” sounds like several different songs hurled into a mixing pot and churned out into gloriously weird indie folk pop; it has a quasi math-rock riff running throughout, but then also throws in the jangly guitars that are synonymous with the sound of indie pop, with Dearbhla Minogue’s candy-sweet vocals sprinkled on top.

 

The BIG MOON – ” The Road “

Posted: September 9, 2015 in MUSIC
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New Band Of The Week - Stream The Big Moon’s Debut Single ‘Sucker’ And Read Their First Ever Interview

It was definitely more important to have the right people in the band than the right musicians,” says Juliette Jackson (above, left) – lynchpin and leader of London’s most exciting new quartet, The Big Moon (formerly The Moon).

“You can just tell when you’re gonna be friends with people.” This sense of togetherness is the spark that ignites the band – completed by Soph Nathan (guitar, vocals), Celia Archer (bass, vocals) and Fern Ford (drums) – and is remarkable considering the girls have only known each other for a year. A four-headed beast of tight harmonies, guitar interplay and wired, exuberant energy on stage, the group come across as more of a breezy, Runaways-esque girl gang than a songwriter and her backing band, although The Big Moon did originate with just Jackson and some aspirational dreams.

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Jackson says she had all but renounced music until she found herself re-enthused by the fieriest factions of indie’s new breed. “I went to see Palma Violets and I wanted to be in a band like them, in a gang,” she explains. “And then I saw Fat White Family and I just went home and began writing songs. It made me feel like I could do it and I wanted this for myself.”

Soph, Celia and Fern came into the mix via friends (all three were given the thumbs up based on immediate chemistry before barely playing a note) and the band moved into a tiny rehearsal room in London’s Stoke Newington

‘Eureka Moment’ – an intensely stirring stop start rattle that’s earned them comparisons to everyone from PJ Harvey to The Slits – is the first taste, while debut single ‘Sucker’ came out in June 2015.

“The first time we played together I cried because I’d wanted a band for so long, and I’d finally found the right people,” Juliette smiles. “These guys think I’m an emotional volcano, but I just don’t care about other things as much as this.” Start the countdown now – The Big Moon are readying to shoot for the stars.

The DRINK – ” Company “

Posted: September 7, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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With one of the best debut releases of the year ,please check out The Drink the trio are based in London, Imagine the instrumental prowess of now defunct North London outfit Fighting Kites teamed with a Sleater-Kinney like attitude and you basically have The Drink. In 2012 Dublin native lead vocalist and guitarist extraordinary with her jerky African styled rhythm guitar sounds Dearbhla Minogue joined forces with erstwhile Fighting Kites members David Stewart and Daniel Fordham and began creating beguiling, dark pop music delivered by a sweet tongue. It’s this darkness, paired with trio’s knack for folding juddering guitar led melodies underneath surreal lyrics, that saw their first full length Company held up by The Guardian, NME and the Independent alike as one of the debuts of the year. After recent performance at Green Man festival The band followed it up with a blistering performance at End Of The Road Festival, Lets hope for more provincial dates this is a band you need to see. Thier first album release Company sees the London trio collate the 12 songs which comprised their first three EPs (all now out of print), shuffle the running orders and repackage them as one release.

Tracklisting:

1. Microsleep
2. Bantamweight
3. Playground
4. Dead Ringers
5. Fever
6. Wicklow
7. At The Weekend
8. Beasts Are Sleeping
9. Demo Love
10. Desert
11. Junkyard
12. Haunted Place

“A fascinating first shot, packed with potential” – UNCUT
“As unique as it is beguiling … one to watch” – Independent
“Straddles the dream pop of Warpaint and the roaming melodies of British folk” – Observer
“Gloriously weird indie folk pop … flashes of blackness and oddity” – The Line Of Best Fit
“Up there with the best indie-pop songs of 2014” – Drowned In Sound
“4½ / 5” – Independent on Sunday
“4 / 5” – The Times
“4 / 5” – MOJO

VARIOUS ARTISTS – ” Strummerville A Go​-​Go #001 ” The Joe Strummer Foundation

Posted: August 30, 2015 in MUSIC
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The Joe Strummer Foundation gives opportunities to aspiring musicians and support to projects around the world that create social mobility through music.  A terrific compilation going to a great cause. Some terrific artists here and the 001 promises more good stuff to come.

Strummerville A Go-Go #001 is a fundraising album for The Joe Strummer Foundation. You’ll be able to download all 17 tracks for just £1, or you can pay any amount you want. Each download is a donation that will go directly to the Foundation and will allow us to continue our work.
We are truly thankful to all the artists who have kindly donated their music for use on this fundraising album & your donation is truly appreciated. Now, let’s turn it up, support the bands by checking out their links, buy their music & go see ’em live! .As Joe says: “without people, you’re nothing”

For more information on the bands and the Strummerville A Go-Go campaign please visit: j.mp/strummerville-gogo
released 17 August 2015

LOVE L.U.V – ” Sold My Love / Maybe Baby “

Posted: August 30, 2015 in MUSIC
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Released exclusively for Record Store Day as part of Workerbee Records’ ‘Don’t Try’ compilation, Love L.U.V. cover Buddy Holly’s ‘Maybe Baby’. Love L.U.V. Noun. Pronunciation: “Love El-You-Vee” 

They have shared a new track, a cover of Buddy Holly’s “Maybe Baby”, released exclusively for Record Store Day as part of the Don’t Try compilation (a title borrowed from Bukowski’s headstone) for American indie label Worker Bee Records.

Borrowing their name from the immortal spoken word intro to The Shangri-Las classic Give Him A Great Big Kiss, the band give this track all the fuzzed-up ’60s, doo-wop girl-band harmonies you could possibly want.

The full compilation can be streamed at: workerbeerecords.bandcamp.com/album/dont-try

The one take, first take wonder was recorded in March at Radar Sound with Fuzz and mastered by Fran Ashcroft.The full compilation – featuring Ladywolf, Electric Healing Sound, Person Whale and more – was released as a free download card on Record Store Day 2015 via Zzz Records in Iowa.

LOOM – ” Bleed On Me “

Posted: August 1, 2015 in MUSIC
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London five-piece Loom return with the release of visceral two track EP on Raft Records, a label run by Faris and Tarik Badwan in collaboration with The Vinyl Factory. This double A-sided 7″ single is housed in a bespoke colour sleeve, and limited to 500 copies worldwide. ‘Bleed On Me’ is a massive leap forward for Loom and sounds like ‘Bleach’ era Nirvana. It’s brash, dirty and perfectly formed.

 

 

VISIONS MUSIC FESTIVAL – 8th August 2015

Posted: July 31, 2015 in FESTIVALS, MUSIC
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DESPERATE JOURNALIST – ” Hesitate “

Posted: July 10, 2015 in MUSIC
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Equal parts post-punk and Britpop with a smidgen of new wave angst thrown in, London-based four-piece Desperate Journalist are one of the most exciting bands to emerge from the capital’s underground scene this past year. Frontwoman and main mouthpiece Jo Bevan also happens to be an idol in waiting, an energetically captivating bundle of joy whose mesmerising performances undoubtedly form the catalyst of her band’s live show. Ignore at your peril. Video for ‘Hesitate’ by Desperate Journalist taken from the album ‘Desperate Journalist’ out now on Fierce Panda (UK) & Minty Fresh (US)

 

LOOP – ” Array ” EP

Posted: June 20, 2015 in MUSIC
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Loop are an alternative rock band from South London, and it’s been 25 years since we’ve heard new material. That’s a long time to be gone, a bunch of you were probably born in that time, grew up, got a college degree, now you’re out in the big wide world, trying to figure it out. Their new EP Array 1 is a great way to come back and make up for lost time in a swoop. Track opener “Procession” has an insane amount of kick and uses vocal effects in a way to texture the rest of the music’s pound assault. With each proceeding track, the music loses a traditional shape and becomes something more noisy and intense, very reminiscent of the experimentation found on albums of the past like Heaven’s End.

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They’ve been away for just the 25 years but have re-appeared as if nothing has happened. ‘Array 1’ is the first of three releases by the rejuvenated psych-sters. This is as good as you could ever have dared hope with their fuzzy, woozy sound perfectly intact. Grainy, distorted tunes with microscopic precision and hypnotic motion,

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Check it out below, and order your copy from ATP Recordings , The veteran band led by Robert Hampson with a brand spanking new line-up featuring The Heads’ wonderful rhythm section of Hugo Morgan and Wayne Maskell plus guitarist Dan Boyd. Reinvigorated by the changes, ‘Array 1’ exhibits an urgency all too often missing from psyched-out rock. Just four songs and not a wasted note – these guys really know exactly how to play. Ideal festive fare.

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