Northeast Music Guide

Trailblazer named as headline act for SummerTyne Americana Festival 2019 Americana trailblazer k.d. lang is announced today as the first headliner at this year’s SummerTyne Americana Festival at Sage Gateshead in July.  The 14th annual festival promises a line-up including an eclectic mix of legendary Americana heavyweights, cross-over artists and breakthrough talent from both sides of the Atlantic. This first announcement of country royalty sets a high bar for what’s to come. Dubbed “the best singer of her generation” by Tony Bennett, k.d. lang has won four GRAMMY® awards, eight Juno Awards, a BRIT, an AMA, a VMA, and four awards from GLAAD. In 1996, she received Canada’s highest civilian honour, the Order of Canada. In 2013, she was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at the Juno Awards, and last year, received the Alberta Order of Excellence Award.  lang has contributed to numerous soundtracks, appeared in many films, and in 2014 made her Broadway debut

LARKIN POE ANNOUNCE 2019 UK TOUR TOURING NEW ALBUM 'VENOM & FAITH’  “…a beguiling mix of Gothic soul and outlaw country” UNCUT “Bewitching Southern gothic darkness”  Planet Rock Magazine “…a stark, at times almost gothic take on the mosaic of Americana” CLASH “Bursting with slick lyrics and production alongside a mix of hip-hop and rock influences”  Rock N Reel Following a sold-out headline show at London’s Islington Assembly Hall, LARKIN POE will be touring their new album ‘Venom & Faith’ at a string of 2019 UK & European headline dates. The Nashville-based sister duo comprising Rebecca and Megan Lovell have also today been confirmed for next June’s Black Deer Festival. LARKIN POE HEADLINE UK TOUR 2019 March 10     Manchester Gorilla tickets March 11     Birmingham Glee Club tickets April 3        Brighton Concorde 2 tickets April 4         Bristol Fleece tickets April 6         Newcastle Riverside tickets April 7        Glasgow

SEAN McGOWAN UK HEADLINE TOUR FEBRUARY / MARCH 2019 WATCH THE ANIMATED VIDEO FOR ‘ROMANCE AIN’T DEAD’ : “Like Strummer, Bragg and Duckworth before him, Sean McGowan possesses a world-weary spirit and an ability to translate that resignation into wryly observed studies of the human condition… A unique talent.” - LOUDER THAN WAR, 8/10 The ever-grafting son of the smith, SEAN McGOWAN, is barrelling into 2019 via his favourite place: the road. With 2018 an indelible highlight and highpoint of his decade of crafting songs, Seán is stepping up his already considerable efforts to bring his smart wordplay and clash of sad and riotous tunes to everyone he can muster. Following his biggest headline show to date, a Christmas homecoming in Southampton at the 1865 supported by friend and labelmate Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, Seán now looks to an extensive UK tour to kick off the new year. Following the release of his debut album Son of the Smith in May 2018 - available on vinyl

DAVID GRAY SEVENTEEN DATE UK AND IRELAND TOUR INC. LONDON'S ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL - SUN 17TH MARCH NEW ALBUM "GOLD IN A BRASS AGE" OUT 8TH MARCH DAVID GRAY has confirmed release details for a new album Gold In A Brass Age - his first album of new material in four years - alongside a seventeen-date tour of the UK for 2019. The album will be available on March 8 through IHT Records / AWAL Recordings, with first single ‘The Sapling’ out now. Produced by Ben DeVries, son of producer and soundtrack composer Marius, Gold In A Brass Age finds Gray in renewed creative form. The album arrives just ahead of a run of headline shows, commencing at Cardiff’s St David’s Hall on Friday, 15th March and including London’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday, 17th March before culminating with two nights at Dublin’s Bord Gais Theatre on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th April. Stream ‘The Sapling’ here. Gold In A Brass Age is defined by an intuitive approach from Gray, exploring new

LUKE SITAL-SINGH ANNOUNCES HEADLINE UK TOUR, APRIL 2019 NEW ALBUM ‘A GOLDEN STATE’ RELEASED APRIL 5TH, 2019 ON RAYGUN RECORDS VIA THE ORCHARD PRE-ORDER HERE LISTEN TO NEW SINGLE ‘LOS ANGELES’ HERE / WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: Following his short run of intimate dates last December, LUKE SITAL-SINGH has announced a more extensive UK Tour in support of his upcoming new album, ‘A Golden State’, which is out April 5th on Raygun Records via The Orchard. Luke, who recently relocated from Bristol to LA, says “I’ve been living in Los Angeles for two weeks so far and I’m already feeling worryingly upbeat. So I’m very excited to be coming home for this tour and launching this new album the right way. It could be my last visit for a while so I plan to make it a memorable one.” April 2019 Sat 6 - Southampton - Heartbreakers Sun 7 - Cardiff - The Moon Mon 8 - London - Earth Tues 9 - Manchester - Deaf Institute Thurs 11 - Glasgow - Poetry Club Fri 12 - Aberdeen -

Nova Radio's Artist of 2018  has a new band and a new single. The  single 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 early March. 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. 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 b

GRETCHEN PETERS WITH HER BAND & THE SOUTHERN FRIED STRING QUARTET STRINGS ATTACHED APRIL 2019 UK TOUR GRETCHEN PETERS returns to the UK for a unique, one off tour in April. Reprising her headlining set at Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow, Gretchen will be joined by her regular band, led by long-time musical partner and pianist, Barry Walsh and The Southern Fried String Quartet. The tour is appropriately named Strings Attached. Gretchen’s star has been in great ascendency recently. Following her two American Music Association Awards for 2015’s Blackbirds, including Best International Album, the 2018 release, Dancing With the Beast, marked another career high. Blending shades of country-rock, indie-folk and Southern gothic with Peters’s smokily honeyed voice, it features all-female characters, from pre-teen to elderly, whose stories vividly illuminate both the personal and political. The all theatre tour will feature selections from both Blackbirds and D