FESTIVAL NEWS: Stage Times Announced For 10th Edition of Tramlines Festival, Day Tickets Now On Sale

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9 Jul 2018

Due to the unprecedented demand for day tickets to Sheffield’s biggest music festival, Tramlines, an extremely limited amount of day tickets are now on sale for the 10th anniversary taking place from Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd July at Hillsborough Park. The UK Festival Award-winning event has also announced stage times meaning festival goers can plan in advance and never miss their favourite bands. The lineup includes Stereophonics, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Craig David’s TS5, Clean Bandit, Blossoms, De La Soul, Milburn, Jake Bugg, Shed Seven, Everything Everything, Reverend and The Makers, Tokio Myers, The Sherlocks, Stefflon Don, Mystery Jets and many more.

In response to the high demand and with support from Sheffield City Council and the licensing authorities, Tramlines is now able to put a very limited amount of Friday, Saturday and Sunday day tickets on sale.

Saturday day tickets are priced at £45, while Friday and Sunday day tickets are priced at £39.50, both plus booking fees. With limited passes available, people are advised to buy quickly.

The last few weekend tickets are still on sale at £79 + bf.

The all-important stage times are also now available. Guests can find all performance times in advance of the festival to make sure not to miss their favourite music or comedy acts. Visit https://www.tramlines.org.uk/line-up/ and hit the ‘stage’ tab to view.

The tenth edition of Tramlines Festival is special one. Now a greenfield festival held in one location, it features its biggest line up yet. Alongside the aforementioned it also features Rat Boy, Tom Grennan, Mabel, The Big Moon, Fickle Friends, The Magic Gang, Coasts, Rae Morris and many more. The new set up features four stages, a debut comedy lineup – Henning Wehn, John Shuttleworth, Tom Stade and Bethany Black to name a few – pop-up cinema, an expanded ‘Into The Trees’ family area, Sheffield’s finest eateries and breweries selling an exclusive Tramlines beer, and of course, the city’s breaking musical talent. It’s going to be one massive party for Sheffield.

Year on year, Tramlines remains one of the largest and most popular inner-city music festivals in the country. Get all the latest updates by following Tramlines on social ‘@tramlines’.

TRAMLINES FESTIVAL TEN YEARS LINEUP

Stereophonics, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Craig David’s TS5,

Clean Bandit, Blossoms, De La Soul, Milburn

Jake Bugg, Shed Seven, Everything Everything, Reverend and The Makers, Tokio Myers, The Sherlocks, Stefflon Don, Mystery Jets, Rat Boy, Tom Grennan

Mabel, The Big Moon, Fickle Friends, The Magic Gang, Coasts, Rae Morris, Teleman, Pale Waves, Little Comets

Gengahr, Black Honey, Palace, Honeyblood, Nina Nesbitt, RedFaces, Flamingods, King No-One, The Orielles, Neon Waltz, Pins, Naaz, Sheafs, Her’s, Self Esteem, Bobii Lewis, Mullally, Bang Bang Romeo, Stereo Honey

Lily Moore, Feet, High Hazels, Oddity Road, Wulfman Fury, Patawawa, SeaMonsters, Sophie and the Giants, Sheafs

Imi, Kadija Kamara, Little Grace, Polo, Saint Petersburg, The Golden Age of TV, Universal Tree

Extra entertainment: Everly Pregnant Brothers, Mr Motivator, Rhythm of the 90s

Comedy: Henning Wehn, John Shuttleworth, Bethany Black, Tom Stade, Tom Wrigglesworth, Jarred Christmas, Dana Alexander, Daisy Earl, Tanyalee Davis, FoxDog Studios, Barbara Nice, Dan Nightingale MC, Jonathan Mayor MC

TOUR, ALBUM, SINGLE NEWS: Miles Kane announces 12 Date Winter 2018 Tour, ‘Coup De Grace’ out 10th August, single ‘Cry On My Guitar’ out now

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Following an intimate and rip-roaring UK club tour with his explosive new band, Miles Kane has announced 12 further UK dates for this winter. Miles releases his first solo record in five years, ‘Coup De Grace’, August 10th on Virgin EMI.

Recorded in LA, produced by John Congleton (St. Vincent), ‘Coup De Grace’ is a blistering exercise in modern rock ‘n’ roll, and features the anthemic ‘Loaded’ written by Miles, Lana Del Rey and Jamie T; the T Rex inspired current single ‘Cry On My Guitar’, the insanely catchy ‘Too Little Too Late’ and title track ‘Coup De Grace’.

Miles Kane and his band play the following winter tour dates with tickets on sale Friday 13th July at 10am from http://gigst.rs/MK :

November
Thurs 22nd GLASGOW, The Barrowland Ballroom
Fri 23rd MANCHESTER, Manchester Academy 1
Mon 26th NORWICH, The LCR UEA
Tues 27th BIRMINGHAM, O2 Institute
Thurs 29th LEEDS, O2 Academy
Fri 30th HULL, Hull University

December
Sat 1st NEWCASTLE, O2 Academy
Mon 3rd BRISTOL, O2 Academy
Tues 4th LEICESTER, O2 Academy
Thurs 6th LONDON, O2 Academy Brixton
Fri 7th NOTTINGHAM, Rock City
Sat 8th LIVERPOOL, Mountford Hall

www.mileskane.com

TOUR & ALBUM NEWS: FATHERSON Autumn 2018 tour, new album ‘Sum Of All Your Parts’ out 14th September

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4 Jul 2018

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FATHERSON are delighted to announce an extensive UK & EIRE tour this Autumn, with tickets on sale 10 AM this Friday (6 July) from the Fatherson Website. The tour will follow the release of the band’s third album ‘Sum Of All Your Parts’ which will drop on September 14th.

Sometimes you just have to rip it up and start again. Come early 2017, Fatherson – comprised of vocalist/guitarist Ross Leighton bassist Marc Strain and drummer Greg Walkinshaw – found themselves at a turning point. Digging up their roots and decanting to a new studio home in Glasgow, they longed for a change. The new album is the result, and their most assured record to date.

Forming in Kilmarnock, Scotland, in early 2010, Fatherson immediately captured hearts with their raw, honest alt-rock sound. Inspired by Scottish stoicism as much as their own personal turmoil, debut album I Am An Island and its 2016 follow-up Open Book were masterclasses in full-throttle rock songwriting, and garnered support from (and tours alongside) their north-of-the-border brethren in Biffy Clyro, Frightened Rabbit, Idlewild and Twin Atlantic, as well as further runs alongside the likes of Kings Of Leon, Augustines, Enter Shikari and more. Open Book jumped straight in at No.2 in the Scottish album charts as well as performing strongly in the U.K. Other recent highlights include packing a 12,000 person tent at T in the Park

“When you’re away on tour for a long time and you haven’t been back home, there’s a realism in people, especially in Glasgow, that’s very refreshing to come back to,” says Strain of that Scottish connection, “I think the music encapsulates that quite well.” It’s an attitude that Leighton’s songwriting feeds off, too. “There’s an element of not being allowed to be too big for your boots,” he explains. “Your ego will get pummelled out of you as soon as you get home, and that’s good grounding”.

That no-bullsh*t, heart-on-sleeve approach is integral to Sum Of All Your Parts. Where before, Leighton admits to masking his thoughts and feelings behind metaphor and anecdote, this time around he pulled back the comfort blanket. “I think this is the first attempt at being a bit more specific, lyrically,” he says. “I was listening to a lot of Frank Ocean, who’s very specific with his lyrics, even though it’s very ambiguous. You might never know what it actually meant, but you can extrapolate something that’s a bit more personal. It’s less of a generalisation on the whole – it’s like, ‘I feel like this about this, and you can understand it or you can not’.

Sum Of All Your Parts’s sonic and lyrical experimentation has allowed Fatherson to break free of the British rock mould they’d found themselves being placed in. The opening one-two of ‘The Rain’ and lead single ‘Making Waves’ is testament to that fact – within ten minutes, Sum Of All Your Parts skips from hypnotic, looped piano, through storming post-rock passages, to the soaring pop nous of that first-released single.

Recorded live and in chronological sequence with Claudius Mittendorfer (Arctic Monkeys, Interpol, Weezer), Sum Of All Your Parts fizzes with a youthful energy, reinvigorating the group from the get-go. “A big part of this process was trying to capture that feeling of when you play a song together for the first time, and you look at each other in the face and get that smile that you can’t get rid of,” explains Walkinshaw. “We weren’t so concerned about some of the pop sensibilities – it’s a little bit more raw, and a little bit more loose, and a bit funner, at points.”

Harking back to the innocence and innovation of those early days, while taking confident strides forward, the result is Sum Of All Your Parts – a record that finds Fatherson reborn.

LIVE DATES

12 Jul – London, Lexington
13 Jul – 2000 Trees Festival
14 Jul – Middlesbrough, Westgarth Social Club

Autumn Tour

02 Oct – Belfast, Voodoo
03 Oct – Dublin, Whelans
04 Oct – Leeds, Hyde Park Book Club
05 Oct – Manchester, Night People
06 Oct – Birmingham, Sunflower Lounge
08 Oct – Nottingham, Rock City
09 Oct – London, Scala
10 Oct – Norwich, Waterfront Studio
11 Oct – Brighton, Patterns
28 Oct – Newcastle University
02 Nov – Glasgow, Barrowlands

Tickets – store.fathersonband.co.uk

Fatherson are:

Ross Leighton – Guitar/Vocals
Marc Strain – Bass
Greg Walkinshaw – Drums

FOR MORE INFORMATION: https://www.fathersonband.com/

LIVE REVIEW: Film Music Night – Todmorden Orchestra, Todmorden Town Hall 23 June 2018

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4 Jul 2018

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This music night will have recalled favourite films, but much of the music was worth listening to in its own right, like the hauntingly beautiful “Gabriel’s Oboe” by Ennio Morricone, from “The Mission”.

It included the theme from some of the Harry Potter films, by John Williams, the lively march from “The Great Escape”, by Elmer Bernstein, and the same composer’s unforgettable “The Magnificent Seven” theme.

Klaus Badelt supplied rollicking music for “Pirates of the Caribbean”, and Ron Goodwin an exciting, jagged theme for “633 Squadron”. There were also dreamy themes, such as Henry Mancini’s “Moon River” from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, and Max Steiner’s reminiscent music for “A Summer Place”.

The concert concluded with a “Mary Poppins” medley (Shermann brothers, arranged by Fones), followed by John Williams again, with some of his “Star Wars” music. The audience were transported.

LIVE REVIEW: Antony and Friends, Todmorden Methodist Church 16th June 2018

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4 Jul 2018

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This series of informal, friendly concerts continued with featured musicians Lynda Robertson (flute) and Tim Wilkes (piano). It opened with Debussy’s haunting flute solo “Syrinx”. Lynda Robertson and Tim Wilkes then played Bach’s flute sonata in E minor (BWV 1034) which opened with a stately adagio and ended with a sparky allegro, and featured an electric harpsichord. This was followed by Antony Brannick with Mozart’s piano sonata in C minor, with a solemn adagio sandwiched between two allegri, the first at times stormy, and the second mostly lively.

Having both Bach and Mozart, well performed, in the first half of a concert, can create a “follow that” feel. Good as the first half was, the second half still had a lot to offer.

It opened with flute music, a lovely Chinese melody, followed by Lynda Robertson’s own composition, the atmospheric “Arietta”. Then Tim Wilkes gave a sensitive performance of “Magnetic Rag” by Scott Joplin. This composer was a jazz pioneer. “Ragtime” featured a new kind of rhythm, but this rag was also melodic and laid back.

At one point, after a thoughtful Grieg nocturne, your reviewer suspected one of the audience of leaving their mobile phone on, but instead it was “Wake up” by Dehnhard, a duet for alarm clock and flute.

The concert finished with “Spiral Lament” by Ian Clarke, inspired by giant African snails, with a slow graceful flute tune from Lynda Robertson and sparkling piano backing from Tim Wilkes.

TOUR NEWS: The Lovely Eggs Summer festival dates, Autumn 2018 tour

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4 Jul 2018

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On the back of their critically acclaimed album This Is Eggland, and their latest single “Big Sea” reaching number 2 in the vinyl singles charts and remaining in the top 10, as well as two sell-out tours this year, surreal DIY punk rockers The Lovely Eggs are heading back on the road. They’ll be playing a staggering amount of summer festivals including Rebellion, Camp Bestival, Indietracks, Festival Number 6 and Greenman, and they’ve been hand-picked to perform at the Greenman Ahoy boat party in London this coming weekend.

They’ve also announced another mammoth UK tour for the autumn, which includes their biggest London headline show to date at The Scala on 28 October.

Festivals

22 July – Nozstock, Bromyard
27 July – Indietracks, Ripley
29 July – Camp Bestival, East Lulworth
3 August – The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge [SOLD OUT]
4 August – Rebellion Festival, Blackpool
11 August – Boardmasters Festival, Newquay
17 August – Greenman Festival, Brecon Beacons
7 September – Festival Number 6, Portmerion
20 October – Ritual Union Festival, Oxford

Oct/Nov Tour

11 Oct – Beat Generator Live, Dundee
12 Oct – CCA, Glasgow
13 Oct – Bongo Club, Edinburgh
19 Oct – The Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
21 Oct – The Roadmender, Northampton
23 Oct – The Hare and Hounds, Birmingham
24 Oct – The Musician, Leicester
25 Oct – 1865, Southampton
26 Oct – The Fleece, Bristol
27 Oct – The Haunt, Brighton
28 Oct – The Scala, London
9 Nov – The Cluny, Newcastle
10 Nov – Gorilla, Manchester

Since its release in February their Dave Fridmann produced album This is Eggland has won high praise from critics and fans alike. The Independent’s 4* review described it as “a giant leap forward” with The Guardian describing their single “Wiggy Giggy” as “marvellous.” Self released on their own label Egg Records, This is Eggland confounded expectations, hitting number nine in the UK Independent National Album Chart, it also made it to number 23 in the UK Vinyl Charts and overall number 136 in the UK National Album Chart – although, had they towed the industry line and not sold the album direct to fans via their website and gigs before release day, they would have been in the top 45! Their single “Wiggy Giggy” was number eight in the Official Vinyl Singles Chart, again despite most sales coming from gigs and their own website. The album CD had to be repressed twice and the vinyl once in the first week alone. As industry outsiders, all this was achieved without the help of management, booking agent or record label support.

The Lovely Eggs are one of the most unique, innovative and genuine bands on the British Underground music scene. Holly Ross (guitar/vocals) and David Blackwell (drums) have built up a cult following, selling out gigs across the UK, as well as gaining support from BBC 6 Music and Radio One. Heavier and more in-your-face than anything they’ve done previously, This is Eggland brings together a fierce DIY ethos, surreal sense of humour and kitchen-sink realism, creating an explosive blend of motoric krautrock, 60s psychedelia and punk rock attitude.

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SINGLE NEWS: LIFE share new remix of ‘Grown Up’ featuring Hull grime MC Chiedu Oraka

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3 Jul 2018

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Following packed appearances at the likes of The Great Escape, Live At Leeds, All Points East, 53 Degrees North, Long Division Festival and and short run of headline UK tour dates, LIFE have shared a brand new remix of their anthemic and frenetic new single “Grown Up”, by Hull grime MC Chiedu Oraka.

A rising grime artist from Hull and a friend of the band (having joined them on stage multiple times), Chiedu Oraka has earned plaudits from the likes of i-D, the Quietus and DIY for his raw and exciting take on the genre. Representing the scene outside of the London bubble, the collaboration is both unpredictable and fitting at the same time.

Speaking about the remix, LIFE’s frontman Mez said:

“Often b-sides are a throw away, they’re pigeons dressed as seagulls that coo over our tiny fucking heads. We wanted to do something different with our b-side and embrace our music community. Chiedu is, like us, an underdog uniting communities in Hull so it was a no brainer to get him and his crew to remix Grown Up. Chiedu has joined us on stage at various shows, music is about togetherness and grime is the new punk! Onwards.”

LIFE are also set to appear at further festivals across the summer, including:

20th July – Tramlines, Sheffield
28th July – Leopallooza
31st August – Electric Fields

TOUR NEWS: Chilly Gonzalez September 2018 Tour

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3 Jul 2018

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Grammy Award-winning maverick pianist, entertainer and composer Chilly Gonzalez to play four UK shows in September

Friday 7 September – LONDON Cadogan Hall
Saturday 8 September – LEEDS Howard Assembly Rooms
Monday 10 September – LONDON Queen Elizabeth Hall
Tuesday 11 September – MANCHESTER Royal Northern College of Music

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Tickets from: serious.org.uk/Chilly

The Grammy-winning Canadian pianist and entertainer is known as much for the intimate piano touch of best-selling albums Solo Piano I and Solo Piano II as for his showmanship and composition for award-winning stars. Gonzo, as he is known to close collaborators, aims to be a man of his time, approaching the piano with classical and jazz training but with the attitude of a rapper.

Chilly Gonzales holds the Guinness world record for the longest solo concert at over 27 hours. He performs and writes songs with Jarvis Cocker, Feist and Drake, among others.

2018 sees the return of Chilly Gonzales to the stage with an intimate hour of pieces from the Solo Piano album cycle, after which he is joined by Stella Le Page on cello and Joe Flory on drums to perform hits and hidden surprises from the rest of his repertoire, interspersed with his unique playful explanations about how music works.

Grammy-winning Canadian pianist, entertainer and composer Chilly Gonzales will release the ﬁnal album of his Solo Piano trilogy, Solo Piano III, on 7th September 2018.

The album comes six years after Solo Piano II and, according to Gonzales, at “a more problematic inﬂection point”. “Like its predecessors, it’s a mostly happy ending in C major, but there is more dissonance, tension and ambiguity along the way… The musical purity of Solo Piano III is not an antidote for our times, it is a reﬂection of all the beauty and ugliness around us.”

Known as much for the intimate piano touch of best-selling albums Solo Piano I and Solo Piano II as for his showmanship and composition for award-winning stars, “Gonzo”, as he is known to close collaborators, aims to be a man of his time, approaching the piano with classical and jazz training but with the attitude of a rapper. He holds the Guinness world record for the longest solo concert at over 27 hours. He performs and writes songs with Jarvis Cocker, Feist and Drake, among others, with recent collaborators including the likes of Ibeyi and Toddla T. With Never Stop, Chilly Gonzales composed a global hit for the inaugural Apple iPad 2 campaign. In 2014 he won a Grammy for his collaboration on Daft Punk’s ‘Best Album of the Year’ and composed the best-selling book of easy piano pieces Re- Introduction Etudes. With his last album Chambers, Chilly Gonzales devoted himself to ﬁnding a modern take on chamber music.

Most recently, Chilly Gonzales ventured into a new form of entrepreneurship. A culmination of recent years’ explorations in teaching, Gonzo inaugurated his very own music school: The Gonzervatory.

During this all-expenses-paid residential music performance workshop held in Paris, 7 selected students explored Musical Humanism, audience psychology and what it means to be a performing musician in 2018. After a week of intensive coaching, masterclasses and rehearsals, these young musicians performed a concert for an audience of 1500 fans with Chilly Gonzales himself as Master of Ceremony. The Gonzervatory Workshop and Concerts were livestreamed on pan-European TV station Arte Concert to record-breaking audiences (Arte’s 2nd most viewed concert). Plans are already being made for the 2019 edition.

ALBUM & TOUR NEWS: Black Honey debut out 21st September, festival and tour October 2018 dates

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2 Jul 2018

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Welcome to ‘Black Honey’, the self-titled debut album today announced by the UK’s best rising band due for release on September 21st.

Black Honey Track Listing:

Only Hurt The Ones I Love
Midnight
Whatever Happened To You
Bad Friends
Blue Romance
Crowded City
Hello Today
Baby
Into The Nightmare
Dig
Just Calling
Wasting Time

Pre-order ‘Black Honey’ HERE

UK festival dates:

30/06 Finsbury Park w/ QOTSA, London
12-14/07 2000 Trees, Cheltenham
12-14/07 Latitude Festival, Southwold
19-22/07 Truck Festival, Oxfordshire
20-22/07 Tramlines Festival, Sheffield
26-29/07 Kendal Calling, Kendal
04/08 – Bestival, Dorset
18/08 – RIZE Festival, Chelmsford
30/08-01/09 Electric Fields, Dumfries
31/08-02/09 Bingley Music Live, Bingley

October UK headline tour:

13/10 Thekla – Bristol
14/10 Concorde 2 – Brighton
15/10 Academy 2 – Birmingham
16/10 Norwich Arts Centre – Norwich
18/10 Church – Leeds
19/10 Riverside – Newcastle
20/10 Stereo – Glasgow
21/10 Academy 2 – Manchester
23/10 Rescue Rooms – Nottingham
24/10 Electric Ballroom – London

TOUR NEWS: Snow Patrol December 2018-February 2019 dates

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2 Jul 2018

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Snow Patrol confirms 11 headlining dates in the UK and Ireland tickets are on sale here.

Snow Patrol’s album Wildness, their first album in seven years, is out now. Wildness taps into something raw and primitive. Lead-singer and songwriter Gary Lightbody says of the album: “There are many types of wildness, but I think it can be distilled into two: the wildness of the modern age, all its confusion, illogic and alienation and a more ancient wildness. Something primal, alive and beautiful that speaks to our true connectivity, our passion, our love, our communion with nature and each other. This is the kind of wildness the album is centered around. The loss of it. Trying to reconnect with it. To remember it.” Purchase Wildnesson all formats here.

To celebrate the release of Wildness, Snow Patrol has debuted new music videos for “A Youth Written In Fire,” “Life and Death,” “Wild Horses,” and “A Dark Switch.” The band has previously released music videos for “Empress” “What If This Is All The Love You Ever Get?,”“Life On Earth,” and “Don’t Give In,” and you can watch them all here.

Snow Patrol U.K and Ireland Tour Dates

Dec 5 /// Newcastle, England /// Metro Radio Arena
Dec 7 /// Belfast, Northern Ireland /// The SSE Arena
Dec 8 /// Belfast, Northern Ireland /// The SSE Arena
Dec 11 /// Dublin, Ireland /// 3Arena
Jan 25 /// Birmingham, England /// Birmingham Arena
Jan 26 /// London, England /// O2 Arena
Jan 27 /// Bournemouth, England /// Bournemouth International Centre
Jan 29 /// Leeds, England /// First Direct Arena
Jan 30 /// Manchester, England /// Manchester Arena
Jan 31 /// Glasgow, England /// The SSE Hydro
Feb 2 /// London, England /// SSE Arena Wembley

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