We’re holding an album launch party and playing a short set at Low Four, the studio where we recorded BigBalloon. Taking place the evening of 18th February, pre-order Big Balloon or any of our albums from Piccadilly Records to snag a place. There’s very limited spaces so don’t hang around.
Alternatively, we’ve put together deluxe ‘Big Balloon’ packages for you available over at www.dutchuncles.co.uk. We have exclusive clear 180g vinyl LP or CD, which you can preorder with a limited edition t-shirt, a set of four signed postcards and your very own (little) big balloon. All orders come with the title track as an instant download, and will also receive the full album as a download on the day or release.
Long-running UK band Elbow return with a new release “Little Fictions” , its their seventh album, on February 3rd. They made the record in Scotland and Manchester with help from The Hallé Orchestra, plus the Hallé Ancoats Community Choir. The band’s Craig Potter produced. You can check out “All Disco” and “Magnificent (She Says)” from the LP .
The band’s last album was 2014’s The Take Off and Landing Of Everything. they have some UK shows in February and March. These in the East Midlands:
Mar 15 The Dome Doncaster, United Kingdom
Mar 16 De Montfort Hall Leicester, United Kingdom
“All Disco” is the second new track taken from Elbow’s new album ‘Little Fictions’, released 3rd February 2017.
Quietly becoming one of the hottest properties in Manchester – their plot for greatness being formed a few miles away in the Glossop countryside – are Larkins. Four old college friends – and now students of history, linguistics, and music at university – they’ve got excellent camaraderie and spectacular hair.
But, more importantly, they’ve also penned a fierce set of songs, from the funk infused pop of latest single Velvet to the Vampire Weekend-esque Tale Of Cassandra and sweetly shimmering ballad Sapphire.
When Mark Cuppello mysteriously quit The Courteeners, everyone wondered where the bassist might go. The answer was here: to Lungs.
With a sound that is Intelligent and deeply noir, Lungs brood and dance around a solid rhythmic sound in the same way bands like Interpol have before them, their guitar melodies sat in minor keys, the drums glittering with a constant touch on the cymbal. Once, that sound might have had people trying to label them as a little bit goth; certainly those influences are worn with pride.
Singer Lee Broadbent, who in addition to being a phenomenal frontman, is a highly thoughtful, intellectual young man . He’s intent on using his platform in the band to call out the most cancerous ideologies in our society and will walk through fire to get his point across. You can’t suppress Cabbage’s uncensored outlook and you can’t deny their power as a live band. 2017 needs Cabbage it we’re to help heal the poison of 2016.
Think the Roses’ spirit, Super Furries creativity, The Clash’s bollocks and you’re somewhere close to Cabbage. The most exciting and ferocious new live act on the planet.
“With songs about North Korea and Donald Trump, Cabbage would run the risk of being pigeon-holed as a political band… if it wasn’t for their filthy sense of humour.
On the song Dinner Lady, singer and lyricist Joe Martin darkly recalls his real-life experiences of serving school meals over a slinky riff: “I got so bored and idle / Served enough sausage rolls to make me suicidal.”
“We think it’s such a waste that bands have a platform to say things and just don’t” says Martin, whose poetry is inspired by “the bard of Salford”, John Cooper Clark”.
The Underground Youth started in 2008 as the bedroom project of Craig Dyer,The Underground Youth’s blend of dark psychedelic post-punk music has developed a worldwide loyal fan base that continues to grow. Since 2012 the band have completed a number of lengthy tours through Europe seeing them consistently sell out shows and receive widespread praise for their festival performances.
Fuzz Club is an independent record label, online store and production company that focuses on experimental rock and roll, influenced by shoegaze, electronica, noise, garage, blues, folk and psychedelia.
Based in East London, Fuzz Club has gained a reputation for surfacing the best emerging talent from Europe and beyond, and releasing them on high end, limited edition vinyl pressings, alongside a roster of the best known names in the underground scene including Anton Newcombe, Goat, Alan Vega, The Black Angels, Dead Skeletons, A Place to Bury Strangers, The Telescopes, Sonic Jesus and The Underground Youth.
Established in rural Norway during the 24 hour darkness of the Arctic winter, Fuzz Club entered the scene in 2012 with their compilation The Reverb Conspiracy – made in collaboration with Austin Psych Fest – a now annual release capturing the essence of the underground scene as it is today.
What happens when you put an obscure Mancunian music chronologist on a three month sojourn in the heart of the Italian countryside with some battered analogue recording gear, some cheap guitars and a female vocalist and friend to explore themes of the human condition and daydreams of fantasy with one piece of decoration: a poster of their favourite band Os Mutantes looming large on the wall, offering some company and direction during this time of solitude? The answer is a new group of seismic psychedelic proportions. May we present Whyte Horses.
Inspired by the nomadic travels of cult folk artist Mark Fry and outsider Krautrock groups, strange sounds began to emanate from deep within a dilapidated cottage, deep in the Frosinone mountains range with no access to the outside world. Panoramic views baring an uncanny resemblance to Alejandro Jodorowsky’s epic pseudo-western ‘El Topo’ began to filter the songwriting, as hazy instrumentals evolved into mutant pop sketches, blurring seventies MOR sensibilities, obscure imagery and everyday thoughts. At various stages of recording friends would come and visit to jam out songs and record through the night. ‘Pop or Not’ features some wanton contributions from JezWilliams (Doves / Black Rivers, Chris Geddes (Belle & Sebastian), Ian Parton (The Go! Team) and the enigma that is Jim Noir.
The result is other-worldly, classically of another time and space. Triumphant yet melancholy, a colour-sound of psychedelic dream pop, fearless and tender in equal measure. A modern day cosmic-cowboy concept album tackling the story of a fugitive character fighting a personal battle of rehabilitation. Whyte Horses. Led by Dom Thomas from Finders Keepers, their endlessly inventive debut album Pop Or Not, released in May earlier this year, was something of a hidden treasure. Now, they’ve unveiled this new video for album highlight Promise I Do which gives another chance to enjoy the tune. Produced by Ian Parton from the Go! Team, there’s more than a hint of their breakbeat fun, while Dom’s vocals remind us of Jez Williams from Doves.
‘Pop or Not’ is music to get better to
This is probably going to be among my favourite LP’s for 2016. It basically combines all the things I love in pop music: classic Mary Chain style chord changes, prime-time Roses melodic sensibility, joyous drumming, a 60’s buoyancy and gentle playfulness. Add girl group, easy-pop and a sprinkling of blissfully enchanting psych fairy dust and you have a classic record that bounces from one really catchy song to another all the way through.
What happens when you put an obscure Mancunian music chronologist on a three month sojourn in the heart of the Italian countryside with some battered analogue recording gear, some cheap guitars and a female vocalist and friend to explore themes of the human condition and daydreams of fantasy with one piece of decoration: a poster of their favourite band Os Mutantes looming large on the wall, offering some company and direction during this time of solitude? The answer is a new group of seismic psychedelic proportions. May we present to you Whyte Horses.
Inspired by the nomadic travels of cult folk artist Mark Fry and outsider Krautrock groups, strange sounds began to emanate from deep within a dilapidated cottage, deep in the Frosinone mountains range with no access to the outside world. Panoramic views baring an uncanny resemblance to Alejandro Jodorowsky’s epic pseudo-western ‘El Topo’ began to filter the songwriting, as hazy instrumentals evolved into mutant pop sketches, blurring seventies MOR sensibilities, obscure imagery and everyday thoughts. At various stages of recording friends would come and visit to jam out songs and record through the night. ‘Pop or Not’ features some wanton contributions from JezWilliams (Doves / Black Rivers, Chris Geddes (Belle & Sebastian), Ian Parton (The Go! Team) and the enigma that is Jim Noir.
The result is other-worldly, classically of another time and space. Triumphant yet melancholy, a colour-sound of psychedelic dream pop, fearless and tender in equal measure. A modern day cosmic-cowboy concept album tackling the story of a fugitive character fighting a personal battle of rehabilitation.
Whyte Horses – “The Snowfalls” taken from their debut album “POP OR NOT” which is out now.
TRANSFORMER is a new series of shows promoted by the Victoria Warehouse in Manchester. It’s name chosen in commemoration of Lou Reed, whose visionary approach to rock both in the Velvet Underground and on albums like Metal Machine Music, is reflected in the line-up of our inaugural event on 28th May 2017: SWANS, THE FALL, THIS IS NOT THIS HEAT, ROYAL TRUX, LOOP, MUERAN HUMANOS TRANSFORMER will mark the first Manchester show in over 30 years for THIS IS NOT THIS HEAT but the northern swan song for NY noise-rock titans SWANS, who released their final record The Glowing Man to glowing reviews this summer.
The Fat Angel Sings 