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HOWIE PAYNE ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM ‘MOUNTAIN’ RELEASED OCTOBER 27TH ON FULL STACK RECORDS  NEW TRACK ‘HIGH TIMES’ AVAILABLE WITH ALBUM PRE-ORDERS LISTEN ON SOUNDCLOUD  + HEADLINE OCTOBER UK TOUR  HOWIE PAYNE has announced details of his long-awaited new album ‘Mountain’, to be released on October 27th on Full Stack Records and a headline UK tour to coincide with the release. The new album, The Stands’ frontman’s first since his 2009 Ethan Johns-produced debut ‘Bright Light Ballads’, contains the recent Radio X playlisted single ‘The Brightest Star’ plus new track ‘High Times’, which is available as an instant grat with album pre-orders from www.howiepayne.com  ‘Mountain’ was recorded at London’s State of The Ark Studios during the last week of July 2017 before being mixed and mastered in Los Angeles. "I think 'Mountain' is my best record so far,” says Howie.“It’s got a mellow vibe but the songs are rooted in real life which gives it so...

BLANCMANGE LISTEN TO ANNA DINE   TAKEN FROM NEW ALBUM UNFURNISHED ROOMS RELEASED SEPTEMBER 29TH + UK TOUR TO COINCIDE Blancmange are set to release a new album of 10 songs written and recorded by Neil Arthur and co-produced by Benge (Wrangler/John Foxx & The Maths and Gazelle Twin co-producer). Blancmange will also embark on a UK tour to coincide with the album's release. Kicking off in Brighton on October 5th, the ten date tour takes in London and even Darwen and ends in Nottingham on November 4th.  It’s been a fantastically creative period for both Arthur and Benge, releasing their debut album as a new electronic duo – Fader’s First Light - in June 2017 and then the final sessions for Unfurnished Rooms followed immediately in the summer. For the new Blancmange album, all the songs were written by Arthur while Benge added percussion and layers of analogue synth, with the pair then mixing the record together in the latter’s Memetune studios ...

Little Barrie play on 13th Sept at the  Think Tank Newcastle  TICKET LINK LITTLE BARRIE will release their highly anticipated 5th studio album ‘Death Express’ on 7th July on Non Delux. The announcement comes as the band also unveil a slew of live dates throughout 2017. Listen to the new single Produkt New album, ‘Death Express’, packs a heavy punch, channelling the three members’ ferocious musical chops into a raw, DIY response to today’s atmosphere of confusion and division. There’s no political message, just lyrical food for thought, and some of the tautest, most incendiary grooves you’ll ever hear, enticing even dancefloor-shy listeners to hip-shake away their cares. High-octane meditations on surveillance paranoia (‘Copter’), devious policing at mass protests (‘Molotov Cop’) and greed (‘Vulture Swarm’) have rarely felt so irresistible to body movement. Three of their previous four albums were made at Edwyn Collins’s West Heath facility in ...

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RODDY WOOMBLE ANNOUNCES EXTENSIVE UK TOUR + 'THE DELUDER' LP (RELEASED 1st SEPT 2017) LISTEN TO JUPITER SINGLE HERE  RODDY WOOMBLE announces an extensive run of UK dates for 2017 as he prepares to tour his latest solo outing 'The Deluder'. Following on from the brooding, atmospheric 'Like Caruso' single in March and showcasing the diversity of his upcoming and highly anticipated fourth solo album ‘The Deluder’ - ’Jupiter’ sees Roddy and his band in a surreal & playful mood channeling both solo McCartney and Pavement, in a quirky, melodic and memorable pop song.  On the new single ‘Jupiter’ Woomble says:  “ The song actually started out as something I was making up for (and with) my son, who is eight years old and quite interested in astronomy - working on it with my band, who are all adults, it developed and took on a new meaning; the emphasis, and hope we place in mysterious things we don’t fully understand. Constellations, Planets, a...

THE HEAD  RELEASE NEW ALBUM ‘SPACE’ TO COINCIDE WITH CITY TOUR IN THE UK WITH OVER 50 DATES “This is a dynamic live band who have recorded what must be the culminating achievement of their career (so far)” – No Earplugs Atlanta rock band THE HEAD officially release their new full length album Space in the UK this Autumn to coincide with an extensive run of shows across the nation. Currently on tour in the US, the band’s current run spans over 50 dates, including 14 cities in the United Kingdom.  Speaking about the upcoming UK tour, The Head said, "People can expect us to be playing songs mostly from our new record Space. We have a few brand new songs that we’ll be debuting as well. This will be our first time ever touring the U.K., so to say we’re looking forward to it is an understatement. Most of the bands that have impacted us hail from the the U.K.---bands like The Stone Roses, Echo & the Bunnymen, Spiritualized, Milburn, The Action, to name a few....

Jethro Tull Announce 50th Anniversary Tour Newcastle City Hall Thursday 5 April 2018 It was on the 2nd of February 1968 at the world-famous Marquee Club in Wardour Street that Jethro Tull first performed under that name. The group would go on to become one of the most successful and enduring bands of their era, selling over 60 million albums worldwide and entering the cultural collective consciousness along the way. To celebrate this golden anniversary, Ian Anderson will present 50 years of Jethro Tull coming to Newcastle City Hall on Thu 5 Apr 2018. The debut album, This Was, was released later that same year.  Founder, frontman and flautist, Ian Anderson, is rightly credited with introducing the flute to rock as a front line instrument, not to mention the codpiece!  Jethro Tull are one of the biggest selling Progressive Rock artists of all time and their immense and diverse catalogue of work encompasses folk, blues, classical and heavy rock.  The an...