Northeast Music Guide

WILKO JOHNSON BAND featuring Norman Watt-Roy (Bass) & Dylan Howe (Drums) with special guest GLENN TILBROOK play NEWCASTLE – Tyne Theatre on Friday 15th March! (Wilko Johnson) (Glenn Tilbrook) Following Wilko’s cancer recovery, the original Dr Feelgood guitarist has enjoyed a rousing return to the live arena recently, including a number 1 album with Roger Daltrey and playing a sold out show at The Royal Albert Hall to mark his 70th birthday. Heavily influenced by Mick Green, Wilko employs a finger-style, chop-chord strumming action (the ‘stab’, as he describes it). This allows for chords and lead to be played at the same time, giving a fluency and a distinctive sound very unlike the cleaner swat of a pick. With this economic sound, coupled with that black-suited, scowling look, and the yards he covered across the stage pausing only to twist the guitar lead out from under his feet, Wilko became one of the guitar heroes of the era. Following a stint w...

THE WILDHEARTS ANNOUNCE FIRST NEW ALBUM IN 10 YEARS + MAY UK TOUR THE WILDHEARTS are proud to announce the release of Renaissance Men on 3rd May, their first full-length studio album in 10 years.  To coincide with the release of Renaissance Men the Wildhearts’ classic line up of Ginger, CJ, Ritchie and Danny, are to play an 8 date UK tour. This intimate tour will start in Manchester at the Academy 2 on Friday 3rd May and concludes at the Riverside in Newcastle on Sunday 12th May.  “Well fuck me it's only been 10 years since our last release and we have a monster album on its way. Danny is back in the band and we hit the road in May, playing new tunes and all the old hits. Can't wait and I know the boys are super bloody excited for this. ROCK!” - CJ Wildheart  Creatively brilliant, The Wildhearts play a distinctive fusion of hard rock, perfectly complimented by contemporary melodies. With a career spanning nearly 30 years The Wildhearts helped change th...

CARSON McHONE RELEASES NEW SINGLE 'DRUGS' UK TOUR DATES & IN-STORES ANNOUNCED NEW ALBUM 'CAROUSEL' OUT 25TH JANUARY “Carousel sees Carson McHone swinging out of her corner of the Texas honky-tonks with the most exciting country record since Margo Price's Midwest Farmer’s Daughter.” THE LINE OF BEST FIT “An LP that ignores the rules of traditional country music... this is the sound of an artist making peace with her own unrest” ROLLING STONE “These are fabulous songs” ★★★★★ COUNTRY MUSIC PEOPLE  CARSON McHONE has shared Drugs, the second single from her forthcoming album Carousel.  The song was originally recorded by fellow Austin musician Chris Brecht. After getting permission, Carson did some rewrites and made it her own. Speaking to Ladygunn, she explains, “Drugs isn’t really about drugs at all, but it comes from that same dark place of needing to sate some desire or emptiness and being willing to use someone for that… It is ab...

FRANK CARTER AND THE RATTLESNAKES NEW LP “END OF SUFFERING” RELEASED MAY 3RD ON INTERNATIONAL DEATH CULT PRE-ORDER HERE: https://fcatr.lnk.to/EndOfSufferingPR  LIVE UK/ EU INTIMATE DATES ANNOUNCED TICKETS HERE: https://fcatr.lnk.to/PreOrderPR  WATCH THE VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE “CROWBAR” HERE: https://fcatr.lnk.to/CrowbarVideoPR They say the third time’s the charm, and, after the breathtaking, ruthlessly efficient one-two punch of “Blossom” and “Modern Ruin”, here we are – at FRANK CARTER AND THE RATTLESNAKES’ album number three – at once a stadium sized declaration of intent and a deeply personal cri-de-coeur called “End of Suffering”. Recorded in just six months over the heatwave that engulfed London last year, End Of Suffering - named after the Buddhist term for enlightenment- is the sound of a band entering an entirely new realm of the senses, a forty minute rock’n’rollercoaster of molten-hot bangers, scorched-soul ballads and ...

Marry Yourself By Julie Grant The new single from Julie Grant   Marry Yourself celebrates being single, dispelling the myth that everyone must find a partner to be complete. It's not anti-marriage, it's just saying you don't need to become a wife or husband in order to be accepted in to society. Women especially think this is a must and it's not. It's sending out a very positive message to everyone, whatever their gender. The song is not autobiographical unlike the B-side : Hang For It . The single is due for release in March 2019. The video will feature: a woodpecker, confetti, a Barbie doll and a bicycle... stoic/nonchalant male band and a jolly female singer. Julie is also celebrating being an older single woman, not dependent on the exposure of flesh to elicit a response. Listen here Julie is writing a play based on Green and Purple , a song about domestic violence where the perpetrator is the mother. This is autobiographical and promises to ...