Northeast Music Guide

Glasgow Industrial-Metal favourite Seraph Sin  make an overdue return to the region this month The quartet have been well received on previous visits, having played first with Hanzel Und Gretyl and later with Mortiis – and now we look forward to their show with Psydoll. They will be very special guests at the show on March 31st at Central Bar in Gateshead. Local act You Are The Dead are also performing. Wrestling fans may also be familiar with them. They’ve written 3 pieces of entrance music for performers of Insane Championship Wrestling, as well as the intro music for the weekly show! Tickets remain at just £6 in advance or £8 on the door. Advance tickets can be purchased from www.seetickets.com

BRYDE DELIVERS HER BRUTALLY CATHARTIC DEBUT LP 'LIKE AN ISLAND' ON 13TH APRIL  PRECEDED BY LEAD SINGLE ' TO BE BRAVE ' ANNOUNCES 29 DATE TOUR FOR APRIL AND MAY "Feral Guitar, Torn-from-the-chest lyrics...sensational" – The Sunday Times        '...searing' - DIY       “A voice that deserves attention” – Consequence of Sound       “swirling wave of tidal resonance that confidently sits between Scout Niblett and Sharon Van Etten” – The Line of Best Fit After setting up her label Seahorse Music to publish records by like-minded women and help make them more visible in a male-dominated industry, BRYDE finished up her debut LP Like An Island flitting between London and LA.  Exploring themes of independence, liberation, and relationships, her inimitable brand of candid indie rock is realised with mixing help from Catherine Marks (Wolf Alice, PJ Harvey and St Vincent), and mastering by Man...

NICK J.D. HODGSON ANNOUNCES UK & IRELAND TOUR Listen to the album here - Spotify / iTunes / Buy ‘A slew of fast and furious hit singles in the making’ – Sunday Express ‘Subtle, sophisticated songwriting’ – Evening Standard ‘A self-performed album of lushly simple songs that are hummable and uplifting’ – Mail on Sunday  “Oh My God I can’t believe it, I’m going on tour” - NICK This was never the plan when Nick left Kaiser Chiefs in 2012. The plan was to stay at home writing and producing for other people. After five years of  writing songs with everyone from Shirley Bassey to Rat Boy via Mark Ronson and John Newman, the plan changed. His solo album Tell Your Friends came out on 26th Jan 2018 to great acclaim: album of the week in the Sunday Express, 4* in the Evening Standard and Dork Magazine (‘Hodgson’s innate genius shines brighter than ever before’), whilst The Sunday Times revelled in ‘this lovely album’s artless, low-fi approach’ and Q Mag...

KUBIX FESTIVAL TO ROCK SUNDERLAND THIS SUMMER SOME of the biggest music stars from three iconic decades of pop are heading to Sunderland as the city hosts a brand new music event this summer (August 2018). The Kubix Festival will bring a weekend of nostalgia to Herrington Country Park over the weekend of Friday and Saturday August 10 and 11. The two day event will feature some of the hottest names from the 70s, 80s and 90s. Boyzone frontman Ronan Keaton will headline Friday’s 1990s-inspired show, as he performs a selection of the band’s most famous hits, along with some of his solo chart-toppers. He will be supported on the night by fellow Irish favourites B*witched, Peter Andre, boyband East 17 and Right Said Fred. Saturday will bring a totally different sound to Herrington Country Park as dandy highwayman Adam Ant leads a star-studded line up. The man responsible for hits like Prince Charming and Stand & deliver will headline a night of music from some of t...

THE LIMIÑANAS UK TOUR IN MAY LONDON HEADLINE SHOW AT THE GARAGE ON 5TH MAY WATCH NEW VIDEO FOR 'DIMANCHE' FEAT.  BERTRAND BELIN AND EMMANUELLE SEIGNER NEW ALBUM 'SHADOW PEOPLE' OUT NOW ON BECAUSE MUSIC: BUY/STREAM IT HERE “Sounds as if they have stepped out of Quentin Tarantino’s dreams…. a 60s-saturated stunner” Uncut “Garagey, soundtrack-infused psych, a swirl of pounding drums, spoken French, baroque melodies” Mojo "The Limiñanas attack their home nation's ye'-ye' tradition with lashings of psych-rock fuzz" Q "The Limiñanas stick to what they know — The Velvet Underground, Serge Gainsbourg, JAMC fuzz, ’60s soundtracks — but it always sounds effortless and cool” Brooklyn Vegan "Another thrilling mix of '60s garage roc, psych pop and Gallic cool" The Daily Express "Swoony, swirly and slick" NME “Their ascendancy up psych's mountainous hierarchy looks set for take off” Gigwise...

The Wave Pictures Announce new album Brushes With Happiness Due out on Moshi Moshi on 22 June 2018 Listen to new track "Jim" here (feel free to share!) June Tour Dates Announced Photo credit: Michael Rozycki “The blues is very important to us. One of the questions we ask ourselves is: how do you play the blues without actually playing a blues? The blues is all about mystery, mystery as a fact of everyday life. What people call mundane is really magical, they are just blind to it.” – Dave Tattersall One of the UK’s most prolific and beloved bands, The Wave Pictures, return with the brand new single, simply entitled “Jim” (premiered by Brooklyn Vegan here) which heralds the first of two albums that they will be releasing in 2018, Brushes With Happiness out on 22 June (which will be followed by Look Inside Your Heart in October). Sparse and visceral, “Jim” was recorded, along with the rest of the songs on Brushes with Happiness, live in a small ...

Review: Gary Numan at Middlesbrough Empire A big crowd braved the chill of the Minibeast From The East, (some had to stay in hotels in the area after the gig, it got so bad out there). But it was warm as toast in the packed (what is the fire limit?) Middlesbrough Empire where Numan fans from far and wide had gathered to witness the latest outing of a man whose musical career has spanned four decades. Trio, Nightmare Air from the US opened the night with their guitar/electro sound that had some similarities to the Sugar Cubes and a bit of Teenage Fanclub. The songs were catchy and at times had a darkness befitting the evening.  Gary came on with much dry ice and light beams singing Ghost Nation from the new album  Savage: Songs From a Broken World . The night featured a good few of the songs from this excellent new album. My personal favourite is My Name Is Ruin , which has Numan’s daughter’s vocals giving it an ethereal feel over the industrial rhythm. Indeed it i...

BARRENCE WHITFIELD AND THE SAVAGES ANNOUNCE UK TOUR DATES  FOR MAY TICKETS FOR NEWCASTLE CLUNY (from our affiliate See Tickets  at no extra cost) From a far out moon beyond the rings of Saturn to a dingy studio in Cincinnati, BARRENCE WHITFIELD AND THE SAVAGES' new platter embraces a cosmic and groovy unification. It’s a wild, electric phantasmagoria of blues, rock, garage, and soul; it blasts off into diverse orbits only to come back together into a singular Savage cosmology. Soul Flowers of Titan is about people shooting guns, separating, coming home (someday), falling in love, running around, leaving this earth, going crazy, drinking coffee, and thinking about Sun Ra. Titan is the largest moon of Saturn, a planet which astrologically symbolizes pain and struggle. Cincinnati, where the album was recorded (at Ultra Suede Studio), is home to many classic and unknown independent labels, like King and Federal, that fostered a frayed and raucous sound in th...

TH E V E NGA BU S IS COM IN G THE first of three star-studded, paid-for concerts taking place over the Pride weekend has been announced, providing a huge boost to the LGBT festival. Event organisers, Geordiemoor, have bought the use of the big top tent after Newcastle Pride has wrapped up each evening, to provide music fans with a series of gigs featuring fantastic, big name acts. And Dutch Eurodance group, The Vengaboys - famous for their hit singles, We Like to Party, Boom Boom Boom Boom and We’re Going to Ibiza - are the first act lined up for the Friday evening concert. They will be joined by a yet-to-be-named superstar group and the event will act as the launch party for the free Newcastle Pride festival, which takes place between the 20 – 22 July. The three events will not disrupt the Newcastle Pride programme - which is running independent of the concerts organised by Geordiemoor - and a percentage of the proceeds from ticket sales will go to LGBT char...

FANS INVITED TO SEE STING  AND A GALAXY OF STARS ON TYNESIDE… CELEBRITY spotters will get a chance to see some of TV and music’s biggest names at a glittering, red carpet event next week (20 March). A host of famous faces are set to attend a special, gala performance of Sting’s play The Last Ship at Newcastle’s Northern Stage on Tuesday 20 March. And fans can be there to watch as Sting himself is joined by some of the region’s best loved stars on the red carpet. Among those attending are Kaiser Chiefs’ Ricky Wilson and Nick Baines, presenter Jeremy Kyle and golfer Lee Westwood along with homegrown stars such as Denise Welch, Alan Shearer, Joe McElderry and Hairy Biker, Si King – and there may be a couple of surprise appearances. The celebrity audience is set to arrive at the theatre from 6pm and an area has been set y for fans, hoping to catch a glimpse of their favourites. The gala performance is being held in aid of the Graham Wylie Foundation and all funds rai...

TRAVIS ‘THE MAN WHO’ LIVE! Tickets from our affiliate : Get Me In Following their triumphant headline show at On Blackheath Festival last September and due to popular demand, Travis, one of Britain’s best loved bands play their classic album ‘The Man Who’ live in full for two limited runs this June & December and will be performing on the City Hall stage Sat 15 Dec 2018. Released 19 years ago, ‘The Man Who’ sounds as fresh today as it did then.  One of the most successful British albums of the last 20 years, it spawned the timeless singles, ‘Writing To Reach You’, ‘Driftwood’, ‘Turn’ and possibly the band’s most iconic song, ‘Why Does It Always Rain On Me’. “Songs are like emotional bookmarks in time,” Fran Healy said. “When you hear a song you are transported to those times and feel strong echoes of the feelings you felt. Rarely does an album have this ability so performing ‘The Man Who’ once again will be a joy!” Produced by Nigel Godrich, ‘The Man Who’ s...

EARLY DOORS LIVE ON TOUR  FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! KICKING OFF THE TOUR AT THE  CITY HALL ON TUE 25 SEP 2018 EARLY DOORS, Britain’s best loved pub sitcom is to tour the country later this year for the very first time. The live incarnation of the BBC TV favourite kicks off in Newcastle on 25 September.  Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday 16 March. The live show was originally planned as a one week run at Salford Lowry’s Quay’s Theatre.  But due to huge public demand for tickets those shows sold out instantly and a further two weeks of shows at the Lowry’s larger Lyric Theatre were added, which also sold out in record time. Commissioned by leading West End producer Philip McIntyre to adapt their award winning television series for the stage, Craig Cash and Phil Mealey have written a brand new story featuring the same hilarious characters from the TV show. Craig Cash and Phil Mealey said: “Writing Early Doors again has been a joy and we’re really ex...

“The AC/DC Experience boys capture the spirit of all those great anthems”  Bernie Marsden (Whitesnake) THE AC/DC EXPERIENCE  UK TOUR 2018 The legendary sound, spirit and attitude of the mighty AC/DC is alive and kicking… and coming to Newcastle in March 2018. THE AC/DC EXPERIENCE – arguably Britain’s best AC/DC tribute band having rocked some of the biggest tribute festivals in the UK – are heading out on their second nationwide tour. Tickets for the 11-date UK Tour – which hits Newcastle 02 Academy 2 on Saturday 24th March – are on sale now via our Ticketmaster affiliate THE AC/DC EXPERIENCE – Darran Short (vocals); Andy Holt (lead guitar); Steven Wolf (bass); James Stringfellow (guitar) and Dennis Duxbury (drums) – brilliantly nail the power and look of the stadium rock god’s incendiary stage performance, backed by a state-of-the-art lighting and projection show. Thousands of rock fans have seen the Lancashire-based band perform across the UK and they h...