The Fat Angel Sings

 Two special gigs comes to Leicester with an afternoon with Kate Stables performing an intimate 135 cap all seated at the MusicianVenue and then the fully blown thisisthekit set on the evening at TheQ Room, International Arts Centre, Garden St, Leicester

SUNFLOWER BEAN – “Baby Don’t Cry”

Sunflower Bean shared their first new music of the year, “Baby Don’t Cry,” which was produced and mixed by Jacob Portrait of Unknown Mortal Orchestra. “So many things in our lives are disposable,” the band writes. “Content and news is consumed and discarded leaving us unfulfilled. ‘Baby Don’t Cry’ is about enjoying the real. The things right in front of us that give us meaning and how sometimes, even sad songs can give you that warm feeling of hope.

Mom+Pop Records sweethearts Sunflower Bean are riding a huge wave in their young career. In 2018, their sophomore record “Twentytwo in Blue” rose to the UK’s Top 40, and all three band members turned 22 years old. Sunflower Bean spent the following years touring with household names like Beck, Interpol, and label-mate Courtney Barnett, to name a few.

In 2021, they’re back with new music, starting with the single “Baby Don’t Cry.” The tune is a fun, catchy indie bop with edgy guitar and synths. It’s familiar-sounding, but still new and distinct — perfectly emblematic of trends that resonate with a Gen-Z audience, or even a little older. Disillusioned members of society of all ages will resonate with the meaning of “Baby Don’t Cry.” About the song, Sunflower Bean says, “So many things in our lives are disposable. Content and news is consumed and discarded leaving us unfulfilled. ‘Baby Don’t Cry’ is about enjoying the real. The things right in front of us that give us meaning and how sometimes, even sad songs can give you that warm feeling of hope.”

In addition to the new single, Sunflower Bean announced an upcoming tour with a stop at Mama Roux’s in Birmingham 6th April.

HALLOWEEN night at Hotel Vegas! Poster by Federico Moreno. Yep, we’re gonna have do do some black light inks on this one!

Frankie and the Witch Fingers + Christian Bland & The Revelators + Acid Dad + Hooveriii! With tributes to The 13th Floor Elevators, Spacemen 3, The Stooges, Jesus & Mary Chain and Hawkwind. Presented by The Reverberation Appreciation Society.

Pavement have announced a UK/European reunion tour happening in fall of 2022. It’ll be their first tour since 2010 and that’s in addition to the indie rock icons’ performances at the Primavera Sound festivals in Barcelona and Portugal in June that were originally supposed to happen in 2020. Dates include a four-night stand at London’s Roundhouse, Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom, stops in Paris, Oslo, Stockholm, Berlin, Amsterdam, and more. All dates are listed below.

As for what else is in store for Pavement in the future, who is to say. Hopefully North American shows. One song that will likely be in their 2022 sets is “Harness Your Hopes,” the b-side to “Spit on a Stranger” (from their final album, Terror Twilight), that became an unlikely streaming hit thanks to Spotify’s algorithm. As to the long-rumored “Terror Twilight” Deluxe Edition, Matador coyly notes in their press release, “Eventually, we’ll surely celebrate it with an extravagant package of some sort or another – perhaps one of the band’s canonical and not-yet-reissued LPs. 

UK dates go on-sale Saturday, September 11th at 10am BST.