Northeast Music Guide

The Pitmen Poets Dig Deep For Final Tour Honouring North East Mining Communities The Pitmen Poets are back on the road for the first time in two years, paying tribute to the north east’s coal mining heritage. Billy Mitchell, Bob Fox, Benny Graham and Jez Lowe bring their night of songs and stories to The Customs House on Wednesday November 6 at 7.30pm. The Pitmen Poets Bringing together four giants of the traditional and contemporary folk world, the aim is to celebrate the triumphs, tragedy, humour and hard times of the region’s coal mining communities with north east humour and humanity.   Their music, song and spoken word performances are illustrated by atmospheric archive photography of the Northumberland and Durham coalfields. The Pitman Poets said: “The 2017 tour was a blast and the audiences were fantastic. It was the biggest and most successful Poets tour so far and after taking a year off, we’re hoping to see everyone fit and well and up for some new song...

Only Sun Tynemouth Surf Cafe, North Shields Friday 1 November 2019 Tickets are available from See Tickets: http://tidd.ly/df0652fd #Ad Marking the release of their jubilant new single ‘I Can’t Stand it’ today, Only Sun are pleased to reveal a fittingly emphatic new video to accompany it. Watch It Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZI1LkYvKuE Echoing the music itself, the new video is a whirlwind of vibrant colour peppered with the band’s trademark humour. Filmed at Saracen House Studio in Milton Keynes, what started out as a sincere and artful band shoot, soon descended into pure pandemonium. As Aabid Kanji of Only Sun reflects: “[ For the ‘I Can’t Stand It’ video ] we wanted to focus more on the music and performance side of the song than some of our other (more ridiculous) videos. This concept lasted for about half-an-hour of the shoot day, at which point we discovered the props cupboard in the studio. The video that we’ve ended up with is a perfect ama...

Declan Welsh & The Decadent West Newcastle Think Tank Thursday 31 st October 2019 Tickets are available from See Tickets: http://tidd.ly/ac935f2f #Ad ‘Cheaply Bought, Expensively Sold’ Debut Album – Out Now On Modern Sky UK As they prepare to hit the road from this Halloween, Declan Welsh & The Decadent West are serving up an early treat to sink your teeth into: an electrifying live rendition of ‘No Fun’, surgically spliced with Lizzo’s ‘Juice’ and The Strokes’ ‘Reptilia’. A mash-up that needs to be heard to be believed, the track is cut from the band’s Maida Vale live session earlier this week when they were invited to play at the legendary London studios by BBC R1’s Jack Saunders. The Glasgow four piece took the opportunity to re-imagine the lead single of their freshly released debut album ‘Cheaply Bought, Expensively Sold’ (out now on Modern Sky UK), with distinctively Scottish-flavoured covers of the mega-hits by two of their favourite U...

Celebrating The Golden Anniversary Of Dylan’s Festival Folklore Performance – The Bob Dylan Story Isle Of Wight Festival 50 th Anniversary – Greatest Hits Show The Bob Dylan Story Whitley Bay Playhouse Saturday 9 th November 2019   Tickets: https://ticketmaster-uk.tm7559.net/77y95 #Ad The year 2019 marks the golden anniversary of Bob Dylan’s famous comeback performance at the Isle of Wight Festival. Fifty years ago, resplendent in a sharp cream suit, Dylan strode on to the stage before more than 150,000 music fans to deliver a performance that would go down in rock music history.   This special moment in time is celebrated in The Bob Dylan Story’s Isle of Wight 50 th Anniversary Greatest Hits Show, which hits town in the coming weeks.   The authoritative production is described as a “stunning and definitive live concert celebration of rock music’s greatest icon” by the star of the show Bill Lennon. “Music lovers are invited to celebrate the 50 th an...

The Script New Album ‘Sunsets & Full Moons’ To Be Released On November 8 th & Newcastle Show Announced The Script Newcastle Utilita Arena Saturday 14 th March 2020 Tickets are now on sale and are available online from Ticketmaster UK http://ticketmaster-uk.tm7559.net/xDeM3 #Ad After 6 billion streams, 30 million single sales, 10.8 million album sales, over 12 million monthly Spotify listeners and 1.8 million ticket sales, Irish alt-pop trio The Script embark upon a new chapter with the November 8th release of their new album ‘Sunsets & Full Moons’. Having returned with the emotive, stadium-bound first single ‘The Last Time’, ‘Sunsets & Full Moons’   is the sound of The Script - Danny O’Donoghue (vocals, piano, guitar), Mark Sheehan (vocals, guitars) and Glen Power (drums) - focusing on the inclusive, uplifting songwriting that helped them become an arena-filling band with a fervent fan base the world over. In many ways, ‘Sunsets & Fu...

JAWS Newcastle Riverside Saturday 23 rd November 2019 Tickets: http://tidd.ly/70076d3c #Ad New Album “The Ceiling” Out Now Following the release of their long-awaited, and critically acclaimed third album, “The Ceiling”, and a short run of sold-out UK headline dates, Birmingham dream-pop group JAWS are set to hit the road in November for a full UK tour . Their third and most ambitious album yet, “The Ceiling”, sees the band head back into the studio with Gethin Pearson, who also produced 2016′s “Simplicity”. The album represents another musical leap forward for the band, adding new textures and further honing a sound that has been theirs since their inception. “The Ceiling” JAWS will play a full UK headline tour for November 2019 . The announcement follows the bands recent sold-out UK tour dates. Speaking about the reaction to the shows, Schofield says “The recent live dates were the biggest shows we’d ever done and the reaction was beyond what we’d ev...

Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbot New Album ‘Manchester Calling’ to be released on 6th March 2020 Plus Newcastle Show Announced Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbot Utilita Arena Newcastle Saturday 18 th April 2020 Tickets will go on sale 9.30am Friday 25 th October and are available online from https://ticketmaster-uk.tm7559.net/gkzdr with hospitality packages available from https://ticketmaster-uk.tm7559.net/X3PBo #Ad Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott will release their fourth studio album ‘Manchester Calling’ on Virgin EMI on 6th March 2020. ‘Manchester Calling’ boasts all the hallmarks of Heaton’s beautifully bittersweet songwriting – effortlessly catchy melodies allied with an everyman’s biting exasperation at the modern world alongside some truly heartfelt love songs. Produced by long time collaborator John Williams who produced both Housemartins albums and the previous three Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott albums - ‘What Have We Become’ (’14), ...

False Advertising Line Up November Newcastle Dates + Release Debut Album ‘Brainfreeze’ Album Out 8th November Via Alcopop! False Advertising to play Newcastle’s Head of Steam on Monday 11 th November 2019 – Tickets; https://tinyurl.com/FalseADVERTISINGncl #Ad Listen To ‘Influenza’  Here “This band is about connecting with people, but it’s also a very personal catharsis. With ‘Brainfreeze’, I really want people to feel like it’s inclusive. It’s not just our tirade against the world, we want people to feel welcome in the way they experience this band.” Jen Hingley,   False Advertising Manchester 3 piece False Advertising are set to release their brilliant and vibrant, debut album ‘Brainfreeze’ on November the 8th through their new label, Alcopop (Art Brut, DZ Deathrays, Tigercub). Having announced the signing on Monday 26th August, the band have also now released their new single+video for the towering ‘Influenza’ which is out now, AND have annou...

Real Diamond Set To Give A Polished Performance   American singer-songwriter Neil Diamond may have retired from performing, but his star still shines bright, with a Broadway musical in the works. But if you want to see his songs performed on stage before then – and a little closer to home – Real Diamond comes to The Customs House on Sunday, October 13. John Hylton is recognised as one of the top Neil Diamond tribute acts in the UK and bears an uncanny likeness to the great man. After 15 years of performing over 4,000 live shows in venues across Europe, Real Diamond returned to the UK in 2005 and has built up a huge following. Though born in the UK, John was raised in Canada while his father served in the Royal Canadian Air Force, so he consequently finds Neil’s tones and inflections come with ease. John, whose favourite Neil Diamond song is I Am I Said, said: “It’s natural and you can feel it. People can expect lots of fun, a little laughter and a few tears in ...