Blueflint are a five piece band who supported The Proclaimers in 2012. They play banjos, fiddle, piano, electric guitar, double bass and drums.
Blueflint website: http://blueflint.org.uk
Upcoming dates:
The next Soul Rebels session at The Wardrobe is Saturday 7th March and features London 12 piece afro-soul-hiphop-jazz group Nubiyan Twist launching their new single “Work House”. Nubian Twist: http://nubiyantwist.co.uk
Support from Manchester neo-soul band Pieces Of A Man. Pieces of a Man: http://piecesofaman.org
Tickets £7 advance from Jumbo, Crash, Lunatickets and the venue, more on the door. Full info on The Wardrobe website: http://www.thewardrobe.co.uk
A welcome return to the Courthouse for fiddler Chris Stout and harpist Catriona McKay, who have been playing music together for many years both as a duo and in the 7 piece hurricane Fiddlers Bid. For this show Chris & Catriona will play unamplified. Their music is subtle, complex and richly intense, using traditional roots to explore new possibilities in the pairing of harp and fiddle.
They play Otley Courthouse on the 1st May – Tickets: £12.50 / £11 in advance, £13.50/£12 on the door.
ww.otleycourthouse.org.uk
Chris Stout and Catriona McKay mckaystoutmusic.co.uk
Vessels have released their third album Dilate. Available as download, CD or a limited edition double-vinyl LP from all the usual online retailers (iTunes, Amazon, GooglePlay) and all your favourite UK independent record shops, or directly from the ‘shop’ tab of their website.
The digital album comes with a free bonus track ‘Beautiful You Me’, and purchases of the album through Bandcamp or selected UK indie record stores (including Jumbo, Rise, Resident and Rough Trade) will come with a free collection of remixes they’ve done for artists including Pick A Piper, Rival Consoles and Maximo Park. Physical copies of this are extremely limited so don’t dither!
The Marmozets (from Bingley) debut album ‘The Weird and Wonderful Marmozets’ is out now. Get your copy now from:
Digital – http://smarturl.it/TWandWM
CD – http://smarturl.it/TWAWNCD
Official band store t-shirt & signed poster bundles – http://smarturl.it/marmozets.store
Roisin Murphy will play Manchester Gorilla on Tuesday 12th May
Her new Album Hairless Toys is due for release on New album on 11th May.
Eagulls will playing the Trades Club for the first time on 5th June. Tickets on sale 6th March from the Trades website and Jumbo Records.
Independent Label Week is an annual celebration of independent record labels worldwide.
Through special events, releases and more, the primary aim is to encourage audience engagement with their local independent labels, and also to learn more about labels outside of their hometowns.
The first Independent Label Week will take place on 9th-15th November 2015.
Further information on the ILW website
Alt-J, Noel Gallagher and Portishead will headline this year’s Latitude festival.
Also joining the bill are James Blake, Manic Street Preachers, Laura Marling, Seasick Steve, Wild Beasts, Karibou, Jon Hopkins, La Roux, Leon Bridges, Sun Kil Moon, Lianne La Havas and Marika Hackman, while The Vaccines, SBTRKT, Catfish and the Bottlemen and Django Django have been confirmed for the BBC 6 Music stage. For the full line up head here.
Latitude festival takes over Henham Park, Suffolk from July 16 to July 19. Tickets are on sale now, weekend ticket prices start at £192.50, plus fees.
Boyz II Men will be performing their new album and all your favourite classics at Manchester Academy on Saturday 9th May. Tickets available on the Academy website
