Northeast Music Guide

  Pauline Murray New Album ‘Elemental’ Now Out On Polestar Records Gateshead Sage Headline Gig Announced For 6th May 2021 Playing The 1980 Invisible Girls Album In Full Tickets: https://ticketmaster-uk.tm7559.net/4kBQ3 #Ad   “There’s a genuine beauty to Murray’s melancholy and existential pondering. To these ears, she’s never sounded better.”  Mojo “One of the most optimistic voices of the punk age.”  Uncut “The Penetration legend simply never disappoints.”  Vive Le Rock “The album’s mix of innocence and inner strength works its pleasant pop charm, recalling vanished times yet crucially fired with optimism for the future.”  Record Collector   Pauline Murray , singer, songwriter and performer with iconic first-wave punks  Penetration  and 80s pop ensemble the  Invisible Girls  releases her third solo album ‘Elemental’ this week! The highly anticipated and now critically acclaimed album started life in 2016 ...

Dead Famous People's new album  ‘Harry’  out on  Friday 9 th  October 2020 on Fire Records. "Bob bought a DFP single which we both really liked, we were drawn to the mystery of the band's name and the melancholy tone of Dons' voice." Pete Wiggs - Saint Etienne   “There was a sense of excitement that something special was happening." Martin Phillipps – The Chills   Dons Savage is an unparalled talent, a savant of the perfect melody and lyrics which both touch and bite, a throwbook to the Carole King’s and Gerry Goffin’s of Brill Building pop, an instinctive penseuse besting the originators of the Riot Grrrl movement by responding to their conversations of rage and sexuality and finding a place in the world some years before the initial sparks of that particular revolution had even begun. Dead Famous People’s first real album, 'Harry', is now being unleashed to the world.   Dead Famous People first emerged in the 1980s, releasing on the like...

  Black Sabbath Bassist Geezer Butler To Reissue Three Solo Albums   ‘Plastic Planet’ (1995), ‘Black Science’ (1997), ‘Ohmwork’ (2005) To Be Made Available On Vinyl For The First Time!   Vinyl and CDs Out October 30th via BMG   The nineties were a testing time for many of rock’s iconic leaders of the seventies. The nostalgia era that is now an industry of its own had yet to really come to prominence and many of the musicians who were there at rock’s dawn were left floundering as the new decade rolled around and an innovative and fresh wave of ‘alternative’ rock dominated the music world. None of this fazed  Black Sabbath  bassist  Geezer Butler  however, who, as chief master of the heavy metal originators heavyweight bottom-end and the lyrics that gave voice to the monolithic riffs that the band made their trademark, didn’t rest on his laurels and created three solo albums of forward-thinking new music throughout those years....

  How can you cycle further than from Land’s End to John O’Groats in the UK? Take #TheSurvivalTour bike ride!   The Survival Tour Utilita Arena Newcastle 3 rd October 2021 Six industry professionals support #WeMakeEvents with 1,500km fundraiser   Starting at Utilita Arena Newcastle on Saturday 3 rd October and finishing in London on Sunday October 18 th , five industry stalwarts (plus one driving the bus!) will cycle between 80 and 125km per day, representing the UK tour season that never happened this year. Stopping off at over 50 of the most iconic festival, tour and performance venues that have all been standing empty, dark and silent, since the start of lockdown, all in all the tour will cover over 1,500km. (See tour locations and route map below.)   The tour aims to raise awareness of the plight of the million-plus workers in the UK events industry, a sector regarded as the best in the world, to raise funds for Backup #WeMakeEvents’ cho...